Reddit struggled with a second day of usage problems, with tens of thousands of users reporting a Reddit outage on Thursday morning after the company acknowledged a bug in a recent update caused an outage Wednesday evening.
Reddit faced outages both Wednesday evening and Thursday morning. (Photo by Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto ... [+]
Users began reporting Reddit outages just before 10 a.m. EST, according to Down Detector.
More than 76,000 users logged reports on Down Detector Thursday morning, about half of whom reported problems with the app with the other half reporting problems with the website.
Update: Just before 11 a.m. EST, Reddit said in a post on X it is “currently investigating a problem with our site,” and Reddit spokesperson Tim Rathschmidt told Forbes an update it made “caused some instability” but said the site is ramping back up.
Reddit faced a similar outage Wednesday evening, which the company acknowledged in a post on X just after 3:30 p.m. EST. The company posted four hours later it had implemented a fix and would monitor for results, confirming around 11 p.m. the problem had been resolved. Outage reports on Down Detector peaked just before 3:30 p.m. EST, with more than 47,000 users reporting server issues. Reddit addressed the reason for the outage in a meme, modifying a widely used meme of a woman yelling at a cat to an image of the woman yelling at the Reddit mascot. “Reddit is down!” the woman says, as the Reddit mascot responds: “There was a bug in a recent update we made, but a fix is in place and we’re ramping back up.” The company added in another post: “sorry sorry sorry.”
Reddit Says It Has Resolved Outage (New York Times)