Reddit suffered through its second major outage in as many days on Thursday, November 21.
Reddit confirmed to TechRadar that this outage was resulting from an update that it quickly rolled back.
Similarly, yesterday’s more extended outage was the result of some bad code that introduced a bug.
Reddit appeared to be recovering by 4:13PM but the instability remains.
Some pages, like the all-important Popular, remain blank.
On the bright side, you’re able to still peruse some of Reddit’s homepage.
Today, perhaps coincidentally, was also the day of US News Anchor Katie Couric’s first-ever Reddit AMA.
It launched at 2PM ET, though we’re not pointing any fingers.
No word, yet, on what’s causing the issues.
and, yes, “popular” remains offline.
As of 4:36PM ET, Reddit’s homepage was failing again.
Guess all those anxious Reddit users will have to head over to Discord to post updates.
There is no indication they are connected.
Bluesky keeps going down because of its sudden and almostunprecedented popularity.
It’s another sign that all is not well in Reddit Land.
If Down Detector is any measure, Reddit appears to recovering.
This is still not the Reddit you know and love.
Perhaps we spoke too soon.
As of 5:00PM ET, Reddit’s homepage was again mostly empty.
The fault signal at the top is now the most interesting thing to read.
Reddit has not updated its status report since 3:38PM ET.
They posted, “We’re working on it.”
We’re working on it.
We, however, consider this progress.
The platform is healing.
From the looks of things, Reddit is returning to form.
Some of them are even loading quickly.
Hold on a second.
Some part of that infrastructure could be down.
Even when you’re down, you know how to reach us.
Now, though, we have the “full story” and in completely Reddit fashion.
Reddit is ramping back up.
Next to it the explanation, though, is an image from a classic Real Housewives meme.
That is just so Reddit.
Welcome back, Reddit, and thanks for keeping it saucy.
pic.twitter.com/4YjwVdWRKONovember 20, 2024
All’s well that ends well, right?
And Reddit’s homepage is not loading.
This issue looks, perhaps, worse than yesterday’s.
Reddit is reportedly down for thousands of users currently.
Are you one of them?
If this outage continues, that’s sure to change.
Reddit is more than that.
If I’m being honest, I’m not the biggest Reddit user.
I visit sometimes and even end up going down a few subreddit rabbit holes.
We reverted and are seeing Reddit ramp back up."
That’s good news and might mean we’re back to checking the latest dank memes in no time.
Reddit is already showing some signs of life.
We may be seeing the promised reversion taking effect.
Success subreddit
Reddit’s reversion had the desired effect and Reddit is acting like back online.
Down Detector reports have dropped precipitously and we’re now able to navigate the discussion site.
