Reddit Down: Community Site Experiencing Widespread Errors
variety.comTodd Spangler NY Digital Editor Reddit, the internet’s popular discussion hub, was experiencing widespread outages and errors Wednesday.
User reports of problems with Reddit spiked just before 4 p.m. ET on Aug. 28, when there were more than 76,000 error reports, according to monitoring site Downdetector.
Error messages displayed on Reddit pages included “We have encountered an error. Please try again later” and “We were unable to load the content for this page.” A message posted on Reddit’s status page at 4:16 p.m.
ET indicated “Degraded Performance for reddit.com” with a note that said “Investigating – We are currently investigating this issue.” The company has experienced technical problems in the past, including a major outage in August of last year and a five-hour outage in March 2023.
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