Reddit Outage History

Reddit users around the world were unable to load the app or the website as server errors prevented pages from rendering. Many reported timeouts and missing content across feeds, posts, and comments. The outage began around 7:06 PM UTC, and by 7:15 PM UTC the volume of user reports had surged into the hundreds, spanning regions in North America, Europe, and beyond.

StatusGator detected the issue at 7:06 PM UTC, with reports rising before any Reddit public acknowledgement. Reddit's status page did not publish updates during the event in the provided records. The early warning signal concluded at 9:51 PM UTC.

The disruption lasted roughly from 7:06 PM UTC to 9:51 PM UTC and is classified as a major outage with global reach, affecting core app and site functionalities such as feeds, posting, and loading content.

Reddit users across North America and beyond faced a disruption as reddit.com performance degraded and escalated into an outage affecting both web and mobile apps. Users reported pages failing to load, posts and comments not rendering, and login issues, with the impact felt across the web and iOS/Android apps. The issue began for many around 11:15 PM UTC, and reports surged through the night as the problem persisted. Reddit’s status page showed degraded performance and an ongoing investigation at 12:37 AM UTC, with the service restored later in the early morning around 12:47 AM UTC.

Reddit users across multiple regions faced an outage affecting the main site and mobile apps, with pages failing to load and login issues widely reported. The root cause appears to be CDN connectivity problems, as users encountered errors such as 'Our CDN couldn't reach our servers.' StatusGator detected the issue at Feb 28, 2026 8:30 AM UTC (an Early Warning Signal) ahead of any official acknowledgement, with impact beginning around 8:30 AM UTC and peaking between 9:30 AM UTC and 11:15 AM UTC.

Reddit did not publish public status updates during the incident, leaving many users without official guidance as the outage affected the site and apps globally. User reports spanned regions including India, North America, and Europe, featuring messages such as 'site not loading,' 'CDN could not connect to Reddit,' and 'home page not loading.'

The disruption appears broad rather than regional, with notable activity from Indian users during the late morning alongside reports from other continents. The most affected components were the content delivery network and frontend delivery, which prevented access to home feeds, posts, and login for many users. The incident persisted for several hours into the late morning while the scope and potential recovery remained unclear.

Users in India and Nepal reported that Reddit's website and mobile apps were not loading. The outage began around 11:15 AM UTC and persisted for about an hour and a half, with a noticeable uptick in reports around 12:30 PM UTC. Locations affected included Pune, New Delhi, Bengaluru, Ahmedabad, Lucknow, and Kathmandu. StatusGator logged an Early Warning Signal at 12:26 PM UTC and the incident was described as a regional loading failure, with resolution by 12:50 PM UTC.

Users began experiencing issues on Reddit around 5:45 PM UTC as Reddit's core infrastructure entered a degraded state. The Reddit Infrastructure component moved to a degraded status at 6:22 PM UTC, with reports of pages failing to load, posting and commenting problems, and intermittent access to features such as the Zendesk support form. The disruption appeared across regions, reflected by multiple user reports indicating broader, though not global, impact on the site experience.

Movement toward recovery began after about two and a half hours, with the status returning to up at 8:57 PM UTC and normal access gradually restored. Reddit's status updates documented the shift from degraded to normal as systems came back online.

Reddit users around the world could not load the site or access features as pages failed to render and interactive elements stopped working. The outage appears global, with reports spanning North America, Europe, Asia, and beyond. The disruption began around 8:05 PM UTC when StatusGator started receiving reports of site and feature loading problems, and it persisted through most of the evening, with issues continuing until around 9:45 PM UTC.

Reddit users worldwide faced a global outage that began at 12:08 AM UTC. StatusGator detected the issue at Feb 6, 2026 12:08 AM UTC, ahead of Reddit's official acknowledgment. Users across the globe reported the site and app were unavailable, with pages timing out and error messages indicating service unavailability. The disruption affected the Reddit website and related features, delivering a noticeably degraded experience for about an hour.

Reddit’s Android app experienced a brief loading outage, preventing access for a subset of Android users. The issue appeared limited to the Android experience, with early reports from the United States (including Williamsburg, VA and Lake Elsinore, CA). The impact began around 7:15 AM UTC and was largely resolved by 7:20 AM UTC. StatusGator detected the issue at Feb 5, 2026 7:18 AM UTC, ahead of any official Reddit status-page updates. The window was short and there’s no clear indication of broader impact beyond the Android app based on the available data.

Users across North America and Europe were unable to load Reddit content as the app and website displayed loading errors. The disruption began around 8:15 AM UTC and persisted for about 40 minutes, impacting both mobile apps and the Reddit web experience for many users. Reports came from multiple regions, indicating a broad, global impact with affected users seeing endless loading screens or pages that would not load at all.

StatusGator detected the issue at 8:18 AM UTC, roughly 40 minutes ahead of any official Reddit status updates. The incident did not have an official Reddit status post during the event. Access started to recover around 8:58 AM UTC, with many users reporting the app and site returning to normal.

Across Europe, North America, Asia, and Oceania, users reported that Reddit would not load on the site or mobile apps starting around 8:00 AM UTC. The problem persisted through the morning, with additional reports at 9:15 AM UTC and 9:30 AM UTC as pages failed to load or displayed blank screens. The outage affected core Reddit experiences—feeds, posts, and comments—for a broad set of users and was generally resolved by 9:39 AM UTC.