Reddit Outage History

Reddit experienced service degradation caused by AWS issues in the us-east-1 region, affecting Desktop Web, Reddit Ads, and Mobile Web platforms. The incident lasted approximately 85.7 hours while Reddit worked to mitigate the impact of the underlying AWS outage. Reddit implemented fixes and monitored the situation until full resolution was achieved after AWS recovered.

Reddit experienced degraded search functionality and subreddit feed performance for 36 minutes. Users encountered poor search results and issues with their subreddit feeds during this time. The problem was identified and resolved with a fix that restored normal service.

Reddit experienced a major incident where users were unable to report posts, comments, or user details across all platforms including desktop web, mobile web, and native mobile apps. The reporting functionality was completely disrupted for 40 minutes before engineers implemented a fix and restored normal service.

Reddit experienced elevated site errors for 39 minutes, causing images and thumbnails to fail loading while text content remained accessible. Users reported seeing only text with no visual elements displaying properly. The issue was identified, fixed, and resolved after monitoring confirmed the solution was effective.

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.

Reddit experienced degraded performance on reddit.com for 12 minutes, causing a major service disruption. The engineering team implemented a fix and monitored the results before confirming full resolution. The incident was resolved completely within the brief timeframe.