Reddit Outage History

Reddit users across desktop web, mobile web, and native mobile apps encountered video posts rendering as static images instead of playable media. The issue prompted a warning on Reddit's status page as engineers investigated at 10:52 PM UTC, with early user reports arriving around 11:15 PM UTC. The problem persisted for about two hours until the incident was resolved and the status returned to normal by 1:02 AM UTC. A small volume of reports and affected surfaces across all main Reddit clients indicated a broad, but not permanent, disruption of video playback.

StatusGator detected issues at Dec 10, 2025 7:43 PM UTC (Early Warning Signal) as Reddit's website became unavailable due to server errors. The disruption appeared global, with users across North America, Europe, Australia, and other regions unable to load Reddit pages. The outage lasted about eleven minutes and was resolved by 7:54 PM UTC.

Reddit users worldwide faced internal server errors when loading Reddit.com and its apps, with reports of connection errors, blank pages, and failed requests spanning regions from the United States to Europe, Asia-Pacific, and beyond. The incident appears to have begun at 4:27 AM UTC and intensified over the next hour, with the highest volume of user reports arriving between 4:30 AM UTC and 5:00 AM UTC. Core services such as browsing, posting, and feed updates were impacted, causing widespread disruption to user activity.

Reddit's iOS push notifications were not delivered to users on iOS devices using Reddit's Native Mobile Apps, causing missed alerts for several hours. Impact began around Nov 30, 2025 6:52 PM UTC and was resolved by 12:02 AM UTC, lasting roughly five hours.

Reddit's status page showed the issue as an investigation starting at Nov 30, 2025 6:52 PM UTC with the component reddit.com / Native Mobile Apps. The team confirmed the problem and later restored normal operation by the end of the window. The issue appeared focused on push notification delivery for iOS and did not indicate a broader service disruption. User reports during the window were limited, consistent with a targeted impact on iOS alerts.

Users began reporting around 12:45 PM UTC that Reddit apps and the website were not loading, with many seeing internal server errors or pages that fail to render. The disruption appeared widespread, with complaints surfacing from multiple regions about login failures, slow loading, and blank screens on both mobile and web. The incident persisted for a bit over an hour, during which StatusGator flagged the issue at 12:52 PM UTC. The Early Warning Signal ended at 1:58 PM UTC.

Users across North America reported that the Reddit mobile app would not load, with screens stuck on the loading screen. The outage began around 1:15 PM UTC and affected multiple major cities, including Seattle, Brooklyn, Edmonton, Portland, and Los Angeles, making the app largely unusable for affected users during the incident.

StatusGator detected the issue at 1:25 PM UTC, with the Early Warning Signal active through 1:51 PM UTC (roughly 26 minutes). Reddit’s status page showed no official updates in the provided data. The event appears to be a short-lived disruption affecting the Reddit app experience for users across North America.

Reddit reported a brief period of degraded performance across reddit.com on Mobile Web, Native Mobile Apps, and Desktop Web. Users experienced loading errors, failed interactions, and media not loading across platforms. The outage lasted about 40 minutes, from Nov 4, 2025 12:27 PM UTC to Nov 4, 2025 1:07 PM UTC, during which Reddit investigated elevated error rates.

The service issued 2 official status updates during the incident, noting the elevated error rates and later confirming that services had returned to normal. The issue affected three components: reddit.com / Mobile Web, reddit.com / Native Mobile Apps, and reddit.com / Desktop Web. A surge in user reports indicated widespread impact across platforms globally.

Users across Reddit's mobile web, native mobile apps, and desktop web encountered elevated error rates and pages not loading. Features like posting, commenting, upvoting, and media viewing were inconsistent or unavailable for many users. The disruption began around 12:08 PM UTC and persisted through 1:11 PM UTC, with reports spanning multiple regions worldwide. Reddit indicated an investigation and a degraded experience as the issue developed, affecting all major access methods.

Reddit's status page showed ongoing investigation with increased error rates at 12:27 PM UTC for all components: reddit.com / Mobile Web, reddit.com / Native Mobile Apps, and reddit.com / Desktop Web. The status improved and circled back to up around 1:07 PM UTC. StatusGator detected the issue at Nov 4, 2025 12:08 PM UTC, about 18 minutes and 36 seconds before the first official acknowledgment, and the incident was considered resolved by 1:11 PM UTC.

Reddit faced degraded infrastructure beginning 10:57 PM UTC, when the official status page flagged 'Experiencing Issues with Reddit Infrastructure' and the Reddit Infrastructure component moved to a degraded state. User reports started to surface by 3:00 AM UTC, though overall volume was small; a sample report from India at 3:12 AM UTC described not loading with ERR_CONNECTION_RESET.

The disruption persisted for roughly seven hours and the Reddit Infrastructure component did not recover until 6:02 AM UTC when the status returned to up, impacting user experiences such as loading pages and posting during that period.

Reddit users around the globe faced loading failures and rate-limiting as Reddit Infrastructure experienced issues starting around 8:02 AM UTC. Across regions, pages would not load and users saw errors such as 'Too many requests' or generic load failures. The volume of reports rose through the morning, peaking around 10:15 AM UTC to 10:30 AM UTC as the impact spread. The degradation persisted for most of the day before parts of the service began returning toward normal.