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Is Reddit Still Down? What We Know About the Outage
Reddit suffered an outage Wednesday morning but quickly identified the cause as an update issue. It's now been reverted.
Reddit, the self-proclaimed "heart of the internet," suffered an outage and was unable to load on Wednesday morning. Attempts to load both the mobile app and the desktop site were met with error messages. When the page did load, it was filled with posts from hours earlier, with nothing recent populating.
Issues spiked at 8:54 a.m. PT (11:54 a.m. ET), with reports sitting at about 134,000 as of 9:11 a.m. PT, according to Downdetector. (Disclosure: Downdetector is owned by the same parent company as CNET, Ziff Davis.)
"We've identified the cause of the issue and are working to address it," Reddit posted on its status page at 9:07 a.m. PT.
Reddit app working again
The Reddit mobile app is now up and running again, appearing to load all posts (from as recently as 2 minutes ago, when I tested it).
Reports of issues on Downdetector began falling between 9 and 9:30 a.m. PT.
(Disclosure: Downdetector is owned by the same parent company as CNET, Ziff Davis.)
Reddit outage was caused by an update
A Reddit spokesperson confirmed to CNET that the outage was caused by an update.
"An update we made caused some instability," the spokesperson told CNET. "We reverted and are seeing Reddit ramp back up."
Reddit is monitoring a potential fix
Reddit updated its status page at 9:21 a.m. PT, saying it's now in the monitoring phase.
"A fix has been implemented and we are monitoring the results," Reddit posted.