Reddit Is Back Online After A Brief Outage

If you were having problem viewing Reddit today, you weren't alone. Downdetector showed a spike successful outages and problems astatine nan site. Reddit acknowledged nan problem connected Wednesday. At 12:38PM ET, it said nan business had been resolved.

Reddit told Engadget that an update was nan culprit. "An update we made caused immoderate instability," a institution spokesperson said. "We reverted and are seeing Reddit ramp backmost up." As to what that update was, we don't yet know, but it was astir apt a modular tweak to nan tract that conscionable had immoderate bugs connected board.

If you tried to sojourn Reddit this morning, you apt saw a connection reading, "Server error: We person encountered an error. Please effort again later." The company's strategy position page showed a "partial outage" for nan desktop web, mobile web and mobile apps.

Meanwhile, Downdetector's position page (above) showed a crisp upward inclination successful problems starting astatine astir 11:20 AM ET. The chart dropped again aft Reddit implemented its fix.