US EditionIs Reddit Still Down? What We Know About the Outage
GLOBAL, JUL 16 – The outage disrupted ChatGPT and related OpenAI services globally, with 82% of DownDetector complaints focused on ChatGPT’s core service, impacting millions of users and Reddit platforms.
- On July 16, 2025, Reddit experienced a worldwide partial outage affecting desktop web browsers and mobile apps starting around 11:20 AM ET.
- The outage was triggered by an update that caused system instability, which Reddit identified within 15 minutes after investigating around 4:30 PM ET.
- Thousands of users, primarily in the U.S. and UK, reported issues such as error messages and inability to load or share posts, with reports peaking near 140,000.
- Reddit confirmed the cause, reverted the faulty update, implemented a fix by 12:38 PM ET, and stated it was monitoring the situation while users began regaining access.
- The event highlights Reddit's prompt response and ongoing monitoring, suggesting the outage might be short-lived with service restoring gradually worldwide.
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Reddit is back online after a brief outage
If you were having trouble viewing Reddit today, you weren't alone. Downdetector showed a spike in outages and problems at the site. Reddit acknowledged the problem on Wednesday. At 12:38PM ET, it said the situation had been resolved. Reddit told Engadget that an update was the culprit. "An update we made caused some instability," a company spokesperson said. "We reverted and are seeing Reddit ramp back up." As to what that update was, we don't …
Reddit 'suffers huge outage' with thousands of users reporting issues
POPULAR forum site Reddit is down, with tens of thousands of users reporting issues. Reports of issues with the site started to be logged at around 4.30pm today. GettyPopular social media site Reddit is currently facing an outage[/caption] By 5pm nearly 25,000 reports had been logged by users. Most users have reported issues with the platform’s app. In a post updating users on the platform’s status, Reddit said the outage affected their desktop …
Reddit is DOWN: Thousands complain Reddit is not working, as company confirms 'partial outage' worldwide
Reddit is experiencing a "partial outage" worldwide, the comnpany has confirmed.Thousands of users flooded social media with complaints about Reddit experiencing problems on desktop web browsers and via mobile apps, including the official Reddit client on Android and iOS. At the time of writing, when attempting to load a post on Reddit, you'll be confronted with a message that reads: Oops! Something went wrong.Reddit users cannot read existing p…
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