Reddit down — live updates on outage

Reddit appears to be suffering a sudden outage as over 35,000 reports started rolling on Downdetector this morning, around 12:15 p.m. PT (3:15 p.m. ET).

The Reddit app is favored for people posting about a variety of subjects. It being down has a significant impact on thousands of Redditors seeking information or trying to post.

We've contacted Reddit for comment on the outage.

2024-11-20T23:04:09.317Z

Looking at DownDetector just before 6 p.m. ET, there was a second spike of outage reports just a little while ago, after initial reports of the Reddit outage appeared to be dying down. Those new reports are tailing off, too, but it's something to keep an eye if service doesn't get fully restored.

2024-11-20T22:17:09.420Z

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.

2024-11-20T21:56:43.398Z

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.

2024-11-20T21:48:57.615Z

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.

2024-11-20T21:29:48.068Z

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.

2024-11-20T21:19:09.489Z

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.

2024-11-20T21:05:20.628Z

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.

2024-11-20T20:55:31.309Z

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.

2024-11-20T20:02:18.827Z

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"

2024-11-20T20:01:27.513Z

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.

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