Reddit is again up after an outage took the location out for half an hour this afternoon. The location seems to have been down throughout the board, aside from a clean homepage that didn’t include or level to any content material. “We encountered an error,” the web site reads. Trying to navigate to any particular subreddit introduced up the error you see above: “We have been unable to load the content material for this web page.” Nonetheless, as of 4:45PM ET, we started to see seeing subreddits and feedback loading once more as typical.
The Reddit standing replace web page lists the issue as “Degraded Efficiency for reddit.com,” and was initially flagged as “Investigating.” At 4:32PM ET, the standing was up to date as “Recognized – The problem has been recognized and a repair is being carried out.”
At 4:45PM ET, it was up to date once more as “Monitoring – A repair has been carried out and we’re monitoring the outcomes.” Nonetheless, the location’s efficiency nonetheless labeled as “Degraded.”
After all, the jokes on social media didn’t take lengthy to begin rolling in:
reddit is down. how am i imagined to google something??
— Corey Atad (@CoreyAtad) August 28, 2024
Reddit and Google signed a high-profile deal for the search big to coach its AI on Reddit consumer information, and search outcomes have been more and more Reddit-leaning over the previous 12 months. Reddit had one other main outage earlier this 12 months when it went down for almost an hour. We’ll keep watch over the standing and replace this story accordingly.
Replace, August 28, 5PM ET: This story was a printed as a growing information artcle about Reddit being down. It was modified after publish with extra particulars concerning the breadth and size of the outage, and the headline has been modified to mirror the location’s present standing.
