Reddit said it has identified the cause of and implemented a fix for a server issue that resulted in an outage for many users on Wednesday morning, after more than 120,000 users reported server issues on DownDetector.com.
Key Facts
- Reddit said in a post on X at 12:21 p.m. EDT it has implemented a fix for the outage and is monitoring results, about 15 minutes after it said it had identified the cause of the outage.
- Reddit spokesperson Courtney Geesey-Dorr told Forbes Wednesday afternoon an “update we made caused some instability” but the company is “seeing Reddit ramp back up” after the fix.
- Users began reporting an outage at about 11:40 a.m. EDT on Wednesday, which swiftly spiked to more than 120,000 reports around noon.
- Reddit did not specify a reason for the outage, but made a post on X at 11:52 a.m. EDT saying it is “investigating this issue.”
Key Background
Reddit has periodically faced outages over the past several months, according to the company’s status page. The company experienced server issues for about an hour in June, and thousands of users reported an outage in March. The company faced back-to-back outages in a 24-hour span in November, resulting in tens of thousands of reports on DownDetector.com. The company clarified the reason behind the outage in a meme, modifying a widely used image of a woman yelling at a cat to an image of the woman yelling at the Reddit mascot. “Reddit is down!” the woman said in the image, to which the mascot responded: “There was a bug in a recent update we made, but a fix is in place and we’re ramping back up.”
This article was originally published on forbes.com.
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