Reddit back up after hour-long outage affects thousands of users

By Yosi Yahoudai
Founder and Managing Partner

Users accessing the site’s main page were unable to see any posts, only a message saying “Oops, something went wrong, please try again later.”

WASHINGTON — Reddit is back up for tens of thousands of users after being down for about an hour Thursday. 

The social media company said just before 1:30 p.m. Eastern that they had deployed a fix t the access issue that was plaguing the site. 

For about an hour before then, users accessing the site’s main page were unable to see any posts, only a message saying “Oops, something went wrong, please try again later.”

DownDetector, an outage tracking site, indicated the problem began around 12:30 p.m. Eastern. Within half an hour, more than 73,000 reports had come in from users unable to access the site. 

Reddit officials said in a post on X, formerly Twitter, that they were investigating the incident.

“Investigating: An issue with a Reddit backend has impacted many users on our site,” the X post said. “We are looking into the cause.”

Investigating: An issue with a Reddit backend has impacted many users on our site. We are looking into the cause. https://t.co/ekMCHgCgvF

— Reddit Status (@redditstatus) April 25, 2024

Reddit said the issue is affecting both the website and mobile apps for the platform, as well as advertisers. 

In a follow-up post at 1:15 p.m. Eastern, Reddit said they had identified the issue and that the site should be back shortly.

Advertised as the “front page of the internet,” Reddit has around 73 million daily users. 

In March, the company was publicly listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker RDDT, and began trading at $47 per share. Since then, it has ranged between $50 and $45 per share.

Last year, the company faced a revolt by volunteer moderators working on the site’s many “subreddit” message boards over changes to its API system that essentially ended access for a number of beloved community apps. 

That short-lived protest saw many popular boards go dark, with users unable to post new content or comment on older posts. 

About the Author

Yosi Yahoudai is a founder and the managing partner of J&Y. His practice is comprised primarily of cases involving automobile and motorcycle accidents, but he also represents people in premises liability lawsuits, including suits alleging dangerous conditions of public property, third-party criminal conduct, and intentional torts. He also has expertise in cases involving product defects, dog bites, elder abuse, and sexual assault. He earned his Bachelor of Arts from the University of California and is admitted to practice in all California State Courts, and the United States District Court for the Southern District of California. If you have any questions about this article, you can contact Yosi by clicking here.

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