Social media website Reddit hasn’t been working this afternoon. In actual fact, it’s the first firm listed on
Downdetector.com as this text is being written. At 2:46 pm EDT, there have been 9 complaints lodged in opposition to Reddit on Downdetector and that determine soared to 66,717 at 3:16 pm EDT. There have been nonetheless over 26,000 individuals complaining that Reddit was down as late as 5:46 pm EDT.
Reddit’s standing web page has three feedback from the social media firm beginning with this one which was posted at 3:18 pm EDT: “Investigating – Reddit is at the moment offline. We’re working to determine the problem.” One other remark was left on the standing web page 38 minutes later. That remark mentioned, “Recognized – We have recognized an inside programs difficulty and are working to find out a repair.”
The following to final touch upon the Reddit standing web page was posted at 5:43 pm EDT and said, “Replace – We’ve recognized a repair which can take a while to implement, within the meantime prepared your bananas (or eat them!).” And simply minutes in the past, Reddit added this to its standing web page at 7:18 pm EDT: “Replace – We have applied our repair and are slowly permitting issues to ramp again up. We’re not but out of the woods. How do you draw a banana? Asking for a buddy.”
Out of nowhere, Reddit goes down
55% of the complaints in opposition to Reddit had been associated to the social media website’s iOS or Android app. 33% reported that they may not get the Reddit web site to work. Curiously, Reddit affords customers the chance to see how operational the service has been during the last 30 days and it reveals that in that interval, Reddit’s desktop web site has been working 99.49% of
the time. Over the identical 30 days, Reddit’s cell apps have been up 99.57% of the time.
During the last 30 days, Reddit has been up and operating near 100% of the time
This author’s Reddit app has been down for hours and the Downdetector map reveals outages in most areas of the U.S.
Reddit disseminated a tweet at 6:37 pm that claims, “Benefit from the productiveness. We’ll be up and operating once more quickly.”
That Reddit must report its standing to Reddit customers on one other social media platform does not escape one Twitter consumer by the title of “Simply Liz” who wrote, “Appears bizarre that I would want to return to a competing platform to search out out what is going on on at your platform.”
