Reddit, the super popular social news and discussion site, briefly went dark on Monday morning.
Shortly after 11 a.m.
The outage was widespread, affecting posters around the globe.
The Reddit app is a popular platform where users share and discuss a wide range of topics.
On itsstatus page, Reddit posted a statement at 8:52 a.m. PDT (11:52 a.m. At around 9:10 a.m. PDT (12:10 p.m. Reddit’s status page marked the issue as “resolved” as of 9:21 a.m. PDT (12:21 p.m.
ET) on Monday morning.
A fix was quickly deployed, and we are now up and running."
Is Reddit back online?
Reddit outage appears (mostly) resolved
As of this writing, 12:37 P.M.
ET, it looks like Reddit’s major global outage has mostly been resolved.
Reddit posted an update to its status page noting as much.
We still don’t know what caused the popular social media platform to go offline.
Down Detector shows fewer than 1,000 reports now, and that number is continuously dropping.
Real-time reactions to outage on X
Everyone running to Twitter to see if Reddit is down.
https://t.co/SYsipS51xGApril 21, 2025
Huzzah!
The Reddit server status website now shows everything in the green with all systems operational.
The X Reddit Status posted a similar message about the issue being addressed at 12:21 P.M. Eastern.
We’ve reached out to Reddit for more information, and will update once we hear back.
Down Detector has steeply declined to just under 1,300 reports.
The outage reports on DownDetector have dropped significantly since Reddit issued a statement saying it had implemented a fix.
Reports were hovering around 100,000 but have dropped to just over 2,000 shortly after 12 p.m. ## Reddit says fix is on the way
Hopefully some good news may be on the way soon.
Reddit posted to itsstatus pageat 9:10 a.m. PDT (12:10 p.m. Having trouble accessing the Reddit app?
You’re not alone.
On DownDetector, reports of Reddit outages peaked at over 110,000 worldwide early Monday morning.
