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Reddit Outage History

Every past Reddit outage tracked by IsDown, with detection times, duration, and resolution details.

There were 309 Reddit outages since October 2019. The 20 outages from the last 12 months are summarized below, with incident details, duration, and resolution information.

Minor April 7, 2026

April 2026: Elevated Site Errors

Detected Apr 7, 2026 4:18 PM EDT · Resolved Apr 7, 2026 4:57 PM EDT · Duration 39 minutes

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.

Major April 6, 2026

April 2026: Elevated site Errors

Detected Apr 6, 2026 2:49 PM EDT · Resolved Apr 6, 2026 4:01 PM EDT · Duration about 1 hour

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.

Major March 3, 2026

March 2026: Degraded performance for reddit.com

Detected Mar 3, 2026 7:35 PM EST · Resolved Mar 3, 2026 7:47 PM EST · Duration 12 minutes

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.