Reddit mobile and web applications were unavailable on Wednesday afternoon, with over 150,000 users in San Francisco reporting an outage on Downdetector as of 1:30 p.m
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The company reported a “degraded status” for Reddit.com on its status page at 1:16 p.m. PT. However, it has announced that its systems will be operational approximately one hour later. The company has determined that the issue was caused by a software update implemented on the platform.
In an email to TechCrunch, Reddit spokesperson Tim Rathschmidt stated, “Earlier today, we released an update that inadvertently affected platform stability.” “A fix has been implemented, and operations are now operational.”
Reddit’s status page was modified to indicate that the issue had been resolved following the implementation of a fix at 2:16 p.m.
According to its status page, Reddit has experienced only a handful of significant disruptions in the past 90 days. Even though some users are still experiencing difficulty accessing the platform, the company anticipates that services will be restored shortly.
