Reddit Outage History

Reddit's mobile apps and the website experienced a widespread outage, with users across regions unable to load content, posts, or feeds. An Early Warning Signal indicated content was not loading beginning at 7:05 PM UTC and continuing through 5:31 AM UTC. User reports began around 7:00 PM UTC and intensified over the next several hours, consistent with a global disruption affecting both the Reddit app and the site.

Reddit did not publish public incident updates on its status page during the period captured here. The volume and geographic span of reports—across North America, Europe, and other regions—point to broad impact rather than a localized fault, indicating many users could not load content or interact with posts.

From around 1:45 PM UTC, Reddit users began reporting a sluggish site and unresponsive controls. By the afternoon, actions like commenting, signing out, and loading profiles were affected in multiple threads, and some users reported chats not sending or images not loading. The impact lasted for about two hours, with the most noticeable disruption around 3:30 PM UTC and gradually eased, with services returning closer to normal by 3:45 PM UTC.

Status on Reddit's status page did not reflect the incident during its course. StatusGator detected the issue at 2:52 PM UTC as an Early Warning Signal, signaling user reports before any official page updates. There is no published post-incident update to explain root cause or recovery steps in the public status feed.

Reddit users experienced degraded frontend performance with very slow page loads and media not displaying, including thumbnails and some comments. The disruption appeared across multiple regions and hindered browsing for about twelve minutes around 10:30 PM UTC to 10:42 PM UTC. StatusGator’s Early Warning Signal captured the issue at 10:33 PM UTC, indicating the problem before Reddit publicly acknowledged it; the signal ended by 10:42 PM UTC.

Reddit users around the world faced difficulty loading Reddit, with errors when opening the site/app, images and videos not displaying, and comments not appearing. The disruption began around 8:45 PM UTC and persisted for about 1 hour and 23 minutes, with the most reported issues peaking in the evening. The outage affected core browsing and media features.

Reddit did not publish official status updates during the event. StatusGator flagged the issue at 8:47 PM UTC as an Early Warning Signal, indicating detection before formal acknowledgment. The incident concluded by 10:08 PM UTC. Users continued to report problems through the end of the window, with a mix of errors such as "we encountered an error", content not loading, and app not loading, as reflected in user reports from around the world. The disruption appeared to be widespread across many regions.

Reddit users experienced increased error rates when posting images or signing up for accounts, impacting reddit.com across Native Mobile Apps, Mobile Web, Desktop Web, and the Comment Processing component. The disruptions began around 11:30 PM UTC and were felt by users across multiple regions, with failures reported when uploading images or creating new accounts.

Reddit’s status page later noted that the underlying cause had been identified and a resolution was in progress. All affected components were restored to normal by 3:42 AM UTC, signaling a return to typical usage across platforms.

Reddit users experienced a site-wide loading error on Jan 14, 2026 10:45 PM UTC, with reddit.com and old.reddit.com returning an error page. Impact began at 10:45 PM UTC and was resolved by 11:09 PM UTC. StatusGator detected the issue ahead of any official acknowledgment, indicating early detection of the problem. The outage affected Reddit's web front-end across the main site and old.reddit.com, making subreddits and pages inaccessible for many users.

Reddit experienced an outage affecting reddit.com and native mobile apps, impacting both desktop web and mobile experiences. Users reported pages failing to load and apps becoming unresponsive, leading to widespread access issues across web and mobile. The incident began at Jan 13, 2026 5:07 PM UTC and lasted about an hour, with a surge in user reports early indicating the breadth of impact. The outage affected 2 components: reddit.com / Native Mobile Apps and reddit.com / Desktop Web.

Reddit's status updates described the response: first, at 17:07 UTC, the team announced they were investigating elevated errors across reddit.com and the native apps and that a fix was being implemented. The status was updated again at 18:07 UTC to say the issue had been resolved and services were back to normal. In total, two status updates were issued during the incident.

Reddit experienced a global disruption affecting reddit.com and its Desktop Web and Native Mobile Apps. Users across regions reported loading errors, blank pages, and inability to access posts or comments, indicating a broad service impact across web and mobile interfaces for about an hour before recovery.

Reddit users around the world reported that the app would not load and that search for subreddits and comments was failing. Symptoms included an app that wouldn’t load and searches returning errors, with reports spanning Germany, the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, France, and Switzerland. The incident began around 9:15 PM UTC and persisted for about 40 minutes before the early warning window closed. StatusGator detected the issue at Jan 4, 2026 9:18 PM UTC, roughly 39 minutes before Reddit would publicly acknowledge the problem; Reddit did not publish any status updates on their status page during the event.

Because the outage affected multiple regions, the impact appeared global, disrupting both web and mobile access and disabling subreddit and comment search. The lack of official Reddit updates during the incident made it difficult for users to gauge when service would return, though the early warning signal indicates user reports preceded any formal acknowledgment.

Reddit users worldwide experienced loading failures as pages could not be loaded and a range of error messages appeared. The disruption was traced to CDN connectivity issues that affected delivery of Reddit assets, hitting both web and mobile experiences. The incident began around 11:02 PM UTC and generated a surge of reports from many regions, with affected users seeing errors for about an hour before conditions improved by 12:08 AM UTC. StatusGator flagged the issue early, but Reddit's official status page did not reflect changes during the outage, and no detailed remediation timeline was published.

StatusGator detected the issue at Dec 19, 2025 11:02 PM UTC, highlighting early visibility of the problem. The broad geographic distribution of reports indicates a global impact, rather than a regional outage, with users across North America, Europe, and other regions affected. The experience ranged from pages not loading to internal server errors and app login difficulties, affecting both the website and apps until the CDN problem was resolved.