
Following immoderate evident outages connected Thursday, Reddit dealt with much issues Friday evening that lasted for astir 2 hours.
Initially, erstwhile I logged successful connected my desktop browser during Friday’s outage, Reddit wouldn’t load astatine each — I would conscionable tally into mistake pages. In an incognito window, the tract loaded, though it seemed to load slower than usual. I was besides capable to load the tract connected mobile Safari portion logged retired and aft I logged in.
Reddit’s presumption leafage said successful a 7:58PM ET message that “We’re experiencing an elevated level of errors and are presently looking into the issue.” In an 8:40PM ET message, Reddit said that “The contented has been identified and a hole is being implemented,” and astatine 9:47PM ET, the institution said that “This incidental has been resolved.”
Downdetector showed a immense spike that topped retired astatine astir 80,000 outage reports. The spike started to spell up soon aft 7:30PM ET, though arsenic of close aft 9PM ET, the measurement of reports appeared to person astir afloat dropped.
The institution didn’t instantly reply to a petition for comment.
Yesterday, Reddit reportedly dealt with “international outages,” according to planetary net show NetBlocks. I personally didn’t tally into immoderate issues during those outages.
Update, February 21st: Reddit says the incidental has been resolved.