Reddit was down for thousands — live updates on major outage

Thousands of reports on Downdetector

On DownDetector, reports quickly spiked to around 10,000 before dipping back down a bit.

Comments on the site seem to indicate it's mostly affecting "Old reddit" but some people are saying that images are slow to load on the "new" reddit

Reddit is aware

The official Reddit status page shows that the company is investigating the issue.

Several operations show "degraded performance" including the desktop website, mobile app and and mobile website.

Reddit does appear laggy

Anecdotally, I am able to login to regular Reddit and browse.

However, comments are slow to popin and images take a moment. Usually I can see images in the main feed but those are only showing as links.

Going into subreddits I'm having a hard time loading older posts that aren't the most recent 5 or so.

Fix in the works

The Reddit status page just updated.

It now reads that the issue has been identified and a fix is being implemented.

"hile this is ongoing, you may encounter errors and general loading issues across feeds, posts, and search. Recently uploaded images and videos may not appear as expected," the site says.

What are you seeing?

Are you having any issues with Reddit today?

Let us know in the comments.

Reports declining but still high

Over on Downdetector, reports have dipped down to around 5,200 after a high of 9,300.

I am seeing some comments of people indicating that the platform appears to be yo-yoing between available and down.

One person blamed Microsoft's Azure going down as the cause. I can't verify that at this time and it doesn't appear the Azure is actively having issues from what I can see.

Outage may be over

On Downdetector, reports have steeply fallen to below 1,000.

However, the official reddit status page has yet to give the all clear.

We'll keep an eye on that in case anything changes.

Anecdotally, images and media seem to be loading normally for me. And comments and posts aren't lagging as they were previously.

Calling it

With reports under 500, and Reddit seemingly back to working properly.

The status page has not yet updated, but they may be waiting until it appears the fix is fully implemented on their end.