Reddit is back up after an outage took the positioning out for half an hour this afternoon. The location seems to have been down throughout the board, other than a clean homepage that didn’t comprise 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 were unable to load the content for this page.” Nevertheless, as of 4:45PM ET, we started to see seeing subreddits and feedback loading once more as regular.
The Reddit standing replace web page lists the issue as “Degraded Performance for reddit.com,” and was initially flagged as “Investigating.” At 4:32PM ET, the standing was up to date as “Identified – The issue has been identified and a fix is being implemented.”
At 4:45PM ET, it was up to date once more as “Monitoring – A fix has been implemented and we are monitoring the results.” Nevertheless, the positioning’s efficiency nonetheless labeled as “Degraded.”
After all, the jokes on social media didn’t take lengthy to start out rolling in:
reddit is down. how am i presupposed 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 person knowledge, 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 regulate 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 replicate the positioning’s present standing.
