Reddit experienced a sudden outage that affected millions of users.
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Update:Reddit feels like down again.
We are tracking the latest developments now.
The Reddit app is favored for people posting about a variety of subjects.
It being down has a significant impact on millions of Redditors seeking information or trying to post.
At 12 p.m. PT Nov. 20 (3:15 p.m.
The outage was widespread affecting posters across the globe.
No other details were shared on what the bug might have been or how it was affecting Reddit servers.
That statement came in around 1:45 p.m.
It seemingly was fixed overnight, but at around 10 a.m. 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.
However, others were able to get on to the main page, though it did appear sluggish.
Which reads, “upstream connect error or disconnect/reset before headers.
reset reason: connection failure”
Reddit confirms outage on Twitter
Yes.
We’re working on it.
Outage dips slightly
For us, the Reddit page still shows as down with upstream connect error.
Though we’ve been able to intermittently pull up the page.
Meanwhile, X and Bluesky are seeing multiple reports of the outage from confused users.
However, we are only getting the upstream error now.
The Reddit status page remains the same reporting “degraded” performance.
Other social sites experience issues today
Reddit isn’t the only platform that has seen problems today.
Venmo comes off as back up as of this writing.
Though that outage appears to have been quickly resolved.
The shambolic entity that is X seems to be working fine.
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.
Down Detector has steeply declined to just under 15,000 reports.
We are still seeing complaints on X and Bluesky.
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.
No timeline for full return
Reddit responded to our inquiry about a timeline.
The latest from DownDetector
Looking atDownDetectorjust before 6 p.m. ## Reddit Alternatives
We’re still getting Reddit down pages when logging in.
With that in mind here are a couple of Reddit replacements while you wait for it to return.
Why not go straight to the source?
Commentary -X still exists, for whatever that’s worth.
Bluesky is seemingly the hot new spot for commentary and funny “skeets.”
you could try either if you’re looking for some information and just following niches.
Likeundersea internet cables getting cut.
And it been redesigned lately to give it more of a Reddit feel.
A previous one occurred in April, though that appeared less severe than the current issue.
The main Reddit X account posted the above tweet meme.
They added “sorry sorry sorry” soon after.
Though it’s not clear if this means that Reddit is actually back up.
The Status page still lists a degraded performance.
Down Detector has been in a steady decline since the sudden peak at 2:30 PM Pacific.
Currently it’s finally under 1,500 reports since it hit a nearly 50,000 peak at 12:30 P.M. Pacific.
The site has been struggling for nearly four hours as of this posting.
We still don’t know what bug was introduced in an update as Reddit claims.
Down Detector shows less than 1,000 reports now and continuously dropping.
The site appears stable on the website and the app.
Though, this writer is still getting the red error bar.
Perhaps that’s just a function that the engineers have not yet turned off.
Performance is still listed as degraded on the Redditstatus.com page.
Many users on X, too, have posted that the service is down again.
Is Reddit down for you?
Peaking at 76,206 reports at around 10:00 a.m.
ET, we’re now down to about 2,000 reports at 11:07 a.m.
ET for Reddit being down.
At around 11:30 a.m.
ET, there were fewer than 1,000 reported outages from users.
