Reddit Outage History

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.

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.