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Reddit’s outage challenge has been recognized
Rapidly after it acknowledged outage points, Reddit has recognized the difficulty and is implementing repairs in line with its @RedditStatus account on X. No different specifics have been shared about this morning’s Reddit outage, however there’s been a considerable drop in reported outages in line with Downdetector. At round 11:30 a.m. ET, there have been fewer than 1,000 reported outages from customers.
About 2,000 reported outages on Reddit in line with Downdetector
All indicators level that Reddit’s beginning to come again for most individuals in line with the most recent report on Downdetector. Peaking at 76,206 stories at round 10:00 a.m. ET, we’re now all the way down to about 2,000 stories at 11:07 a.m. ET for Reddit being down.
Whereas there is not any official phrase but on what induced this morning’s outage, it looks like it is nearly over.
Reddit lastly acknowledges this morning’s outage
After an hour when the primary preliminary stories got here in about an outage, Reddit lastly acknowledges the difficulty on its @redditstatus account on X. The corporate’s at the moment investigating the issue, however there is not any timeframe on when it will be mounted, neither is there a solution about what’s the reason for this morning’s outage both.
Fewer reported outages an hour into it, however nonetheless excessive
It has been roughly an hour because the second spherical of Reddit outages have been reported this morning, and whereas it is slowing down, there is a whole of 44,175 stories reported on Downdetector at 10:34 a.m. ET.
Reddit acknowledges outage yesterday, however not the one in the present day
Whereas Reddit seemingly addressed the outage yesterday, there is not any affirmation wanting via its account on X about this morning’s outage. Many customers on X, too, have posted that the service is down once more. Is Reddit down for you?
Reddit is down once more!
As of 10:19 et this morning Reddit was not loading for hundreds of customers. In keeping with Down Detector, the spike is over 60,000 outages reported. And there is a whole lot of recent feedback pouring in from affected customers.
Outage seems (largely) resolved
As of this writing, 4:20 P.M. Pacific, it seems that the key Reddit outage has largely been resolved.
We nonetheless do not know what bug was launched in an replace as Reddit claims.
Down Detector reveals lower than 1,000 stories now and repeatedly dropping. The location seems secure on the web site and the app. Although, this author remains to be getting the purple error bar. Maybe that is only a operate that the engineers haven’t but turned off.
Efficiency remains to be listed as degraded on the Redditstatus.com web page.
However for essentially the most half, the location appears usable and you may login, publish, and remark
Reddit Outage could also be winding down
Reddit has had no less than two different outages this yr with one which affected not solely Reddit but additionally giant swaths of the web in August. A earlier one occurred in April, although that appeared much less extreme than the present challenge.
The principle Reddit X account posted the above tweet meme. They added “sorry sorry sorry” quickly after. Although it isn’t clear if because of this Reddit is definitely again up.
The Standing web page nonetheless lists a degraded efficiency.
Down Detector has been in a gentle decline because the sudden peak at 2:30 PM Pacific. At the moment it is lastly underneath 1,500 stories because it hit an almost 50,000 peak at 12:30 P.M. Pacific.
The location has been struggling for practically 4 hours as of this posting.
Myself and several other Tom’s Information colleagues are in a position to load Reddit on cell and the desktop. Although, I’ve seen sluggish efficiency with posts loading slowly or feedback taking a minute to truly seem.
Reddit Alternate options
We’re nonetheless getting Reddit down pages when logging in. With that in thoughts listed below are a few Reddit replacements whilst you look ahead to it to return.
Reddit is such a singular animal within the web world that nobody different web site actually captures all of its moods, however these 5 or so will practically get you there.
Imgur – In your gif and pic wants, Imgur is already the place most photos on Reddit are hosted or linked from. Why not go straight to the supply?
Commentary – X nonetheless exists, for no matter that is price. Bluesky is seemingly the new new spot for commentary and humorous “skeets.” You’ll be able to strive both should you’re on the lookout for some data and simply following niches.
Information – Sure, many individuals use Reddit for information however Google Information nonetheless exists and is a fairly good repository in its personal proper of what is taking place around the globe. Like undersea web cables getting lower.
Questions and solutions – Quora could be the closest factor you may get to a Reddit-esque expertise of asking a query and getting 2000 unsuitable solutions couple with just a few right ones. And it been redesigned currently to provide it extra of a Reddit really feel.
Chat/Discussion board– For following together with particular niches, speaking with buddies and performing as a discussion board substitute (please do not exchange boards with Discord), Discord will get you 90% of the best way to a Reddit expertise.
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No timeline for full return
Reddit responded to our inquiry about a timeline.
For us, the site appears to be sort of back up but it is lagging and occasionally stopping.
“The teams are working on it but we don’t have a timeline to share,” a spokesperson said.
Reddit Responds and bug in the system
Just now, a Reddit spokesperson responded to Tom’s Guide about the outage.
We were told, “There was a bug in a recent update we made, but a fix is in place and we’re ramping back up.”
We’ve asked the spokesperson how long they expect until Reddit is fully back up and running normal.
They did not provide details on what the bug was or how it affected the platform.
Coming back?
Reddit may be slowly coming back online.
The main Reddit social accounts and status have not changed.
However, we were able to successfully respond to a post in the r/boardgames subreddit. We haven’t tested making a post yet, but the comment appeared to go through.
Though we are still getting the server error red bar, so Humpty Dumpty hasn’t totally been put back together.
Down Detector has steeply declined to just under 15,000 reports. We are still seeing complaints on X and Bluesky.
Other social sites experience issues today
Reddit isn’t the only platform that has seen problems today. Which still says Server error in a red bar across the top of the feed, even if you can get it to load.
Earlier in the morning, Venmo briefly went down for about an hour with users unable to access the app or the website. Venmo appears to be back up as of this writing.
At the same time Reddit started experiencing issues, the newer social media platform Bluesky also started to receive outage reports. Though that outage appears to have been quickly resolved.
The shambolic entity that is X appears to be working fine.
Reddit still down
While the Down Detector outage reports seems to be steadily declining, Reddit appears to remain down.
For awhile we were able to kind of get on the site and even logged into a couple different accounts.
However, we are only getting the upstream error now.
The Reddit status page remains the same reporting “degraded” performance.
Outage dips slightly
For us, the Reddit page still shows as down with upstream connect error.
Though we’ve been able to intermittently access the page.
A Reddit spokesperson told us that they are looking into the issue but did not have more to share at this time.
Over on Down Detector, the outage has dip from a peak of 48,000 plus reports to around 33,000 reports. Meanwhile, X and Bluesky are seeing multiple reports of the outage from confused users.
Reddit confirms outage on Twitter
The Reddit Status account confirmed that Reddit is down but that they are working on the issue.
The Status page currently says that “This incident affects: reddit.com (Desktop Web, Mobile Web, Native Mobile Apps, Comment Processing, Spam Processing).”
Basically everything.
Reddit status intermittent
Access to Reddit appears intermittent, a Tom’s Guide colleague got the above image when they tried to access the website.
However, others were able to get on to the main page, though it did appear sluggish.
I was able to access the site but received an error message before it reloaded to the same error message above.
Which reads, “upstream connect error or disconnect/reset before headers. reset reason: connection failure”
Reddit acknolwedges outage
Shortly after the outage began, the Reddit server status website changed showing that something was affecting the service.
A note at the top of the page reveals that reddit is working on the issue.
The X Reddit Status posted a similar message at 12:38 PM Pacific.
Investigating: We are currently investigating this issue. https://t.co/PLSwLrcuYdNovember 20, 2024