Outage in Reddit

Elevated site Errors

Resolved Major

April 06, 2026 - Started 2 days ago - Lasted about 1 hour
Official incident page

Incident Report

Summary AI Generated

Reddit experienced elevated site errors for 1.2 hours affecting the Reddit Infrastructure, causing widespread functionality issues including images and videos failing to load, login problems, broken voting and saving features, and general site loading failures. Users reported seeing error messages like "You broke Reddit" and "Looks like Reddit is having some trouble" across both the app and web browser. The issue was identified and resolved with a fix that restored normal service.

We're experiencing an elevated level of errors and are currently looking into the issue.

Components affected

Reddit Infrastructure

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Latest Updates ( sorted recent to last )

RESOLVED 2 days ago - at 04/06/2026 07:57PM

This incident has been resolved.

MONITORING 2 days ago - at 04/06/2026 07:03PM

A fix has been implemented and we are monitoring the results.

IDENTIFIED 2 days ago - at 04/06/2026 06:58PM

The issue has been identified and a fix is being implemented.

INVESTIGATING 2 days ago - at 04/06/2026 06:49PM

We're experiencing an elevated level of errors and are currently looking into the issue.

source IsDown Service outage affecting Reddit functionality Reports started 6 minutes before official outage was reported

Users report 504 and 500 errors across Reddit; issues include loading posts, comments, and notifications; widespread on iOS app.

Latest Reddit outages

Elevated Site Errors - 1 day ago

Degraded performance for reddit.com - about 1 month ago

Elevated Errors - 3 months ago

Increased error rates across the site - 3 months ago

Investigating elevated errors across reddit.com and native apps - 3 months ago

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