Reddit Down Update: Social Discussion Platform Hit by 'Major' Outage, Now Restored
Social discussion platform Reddit on Thursday said that it has "resolved" an issue causing elevated error rates.
San Francisco, Aug 3: Social discussion platform Reddit on Thursday said that it has "resolved" an issue causing elevated error rates. According to the company's status page, the "major" outage started early Thursday. "We are currently investigating elevated error rates across Reddit," it posted. After about an hour, the platform posted, "A fix has been implemented and we are monitoring the results." In an update, it said, "This incident has been resolved."
According to the company, this incident affected desktop web, mobile web and native mobile apps. Taking to X, several users reported the issue. While one user posted, "Did I forget to pay my internet bill or is Reddit down," another said, "Reddit is down I’m going to bang my head against a wall until it opens." According to the online outage monitor website Downdetector, about 45 per cent of people reported problems while using the website, 42 per cent while using the app, and 13 per cent with the server connection. Oppenheimer Sex and Nude Scenes Go Viral on Reddit: All You Need To Know About Intimate Encounter Between Cillian Murphy and Florence Pugh's Characters in Christopher Nolan Movie.
On Downdetector, users' reports peaked at more than 28,000. Last month, the social discussion platform had faced an outage which caused elevated search error rates. The outage lasted for about three hours. As per Downdetector, 60 per cent of people had reported problems while using the application, 31 per cent while using the website, and 9 per cent with the server connection. Reddit in Trouble As Hackers Threaten To Leak 80GB of Its Stolen Data.
Also, the platform had fixed an issue causing inaccurate active user counting. Meanwhile, in June, amid subreddits' protest against the company's new application programming interface (API) pricing changes, the platform had faced a brief outage. The company had fixed the issue which caused problems while loading content.
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