Reddit Outage History

StatusGator logged an Early Warning Signal starting at Jun 3, 2025 6:33 PM UTC as users reported problems loading or posting comments and issues with notifications on Reddit. The disruption affected multiple regions, with comments failing to load reliably, some posts intermittently loading, and a subset of users seeing duplicates in comments. The impact lasted about 37 minutes, beginning around Jun 3, 2025 6:33 PM UTC and resolving by 7:10 PM UTC. While access to Reddit remained generally available, the commenting and notification experience was degraded for a time, including reports from the United States (e.g., New York/Brooklyn), Italy, and Switzerland.

Users of Reddit's native mobile apps experienced errors when loading image posts. The issue began around 5:12 PM UTC after Reddit indicated the reddit.com / Native Mobile Apps component was in a degraded state. Mobile users reported image posts failing to load or displaying errors, a disruption that affected the mobile experience for viewing image content. The impact persisted for about fifty minutes as the provider investigated.

Reddit's status updates showed the issue was under investigation, with the message that they were continuing to investigate. The component returned to normal later, with the status moving back to up by 6:02 PM UTC. The fix restored image viewing for users on the mobile apps, ending the brief disruption.

A Reddit outage disrupted content loading for users across multiple regions, with posts, feeds, and profiles failing to load and server errors appearing. The issue began at 10:36 PM UTC and was resolved by 10:51 PM UTC, lasting about 15 minutes and affecting users in North America, Europe, and parts of Asia. An Early Warning Signal based on user reports was raised by StatusGator at May 16, 2025 10:36 PM UTC ahead of any official Reddit updates. There were no official updates on Reddit Status during the incident. Users observed a broad disruption affecting both web and mobile clients.

StatusGator flagged the issue early, highlighting how user reports began surfacing before any official acknowledgement, and helped map the scope across regions.

Reddit chat users faced elevated errors across desktop web and native mobile apps for a short window. The incident began at Apr 30, 2025 1:02 PM UTC with Reddit noting an investigation into chat issues, and the affected components were returned to normal by Apr 30, 2025 1:37 PM UTC after roughly 35 minutes of degraded messaging. During this period, users attempting to send or receive chat messages may have experienced failures or delays while the rest of Reddit remained available.

Reddit's status updates indicated the chat service was under investigation and later restored, with the desktop web and native mobile apps components recovering to a normal state. The impact appeared limited to the chat functionality, and there was no indication of a broader outage across other Reddit features. The incident duration was short, and services returned to normal promptly.

Reddit faced a brief incident with elevated errors across reddit.com and the native mobile apps, affecting both desktop web and mobile usage. Users attempting to access content likely encountered load issues or intermittent errors. The incident began at 3:57 PM UTC and was resolved by 4:22 PM UTC. The provider issued two status updates during the incident, first noting an investigation and later confirming the issue was resolved.

A spike in user reports accompanied the disruption as people tried to access Reddit during the window of degraded performance. The impacted components were reddit.com / Desktop Web and reddit.com / Native Mobile Apps, which returned to normal after the incident.

Users worldwide reported elevated errors across Reddit's desktop site and native mobile apps, with content not loading and pages showing errors. The issue began around Apr 21, 2025 3:43 PM UTC and persisted for about 40 minutes, spreading across multiple regions as users experienced difficulty loading feeds, posts, and comments.

StatusGator detected the issue at Apr 21, 2025 3:43 PM UTC, 13 minutes 37 seconds before official acknowledgment. Reddit's status page subsequently moved to Investigating elevated site errors at 3:57 PM UTC, listing both Reddit.com Desktop Web and Native Mobile Apps as affected components. The incident appears to have been resolved with full restoration by 4:22 PM UTC, following an early warning signal that ended at 4:11 PM UTC. Report timing indicates a broad, worldwide impact during the event window.

Reddit experienced a partial outage that hindered moderator workflows. Moderators across communities reported missing action buttons and issues loading comment pages on both mobile apps and the desktop site, complicating common moderation tasks for about two hours. The issue began around 7:20 PM UTC and was resolved as services returned to normal by 9:22 PM UTC, with Reddit communicating the incident via a status update titled “Missing Action Buttons For Moderators” that confirmed the affected components and the steps being taken to restore full moderation functionality.

Users across the Reddit app and website experienced degraded performance and content loading issues beginning around 6:45 PM UTC. Many reported slow loading of feeds, posts, and images, with some posts failing to render or timing out. Activity surged in the late afternoon, indicating a broad impact across regions and platforms. StatusGator detected the issue at Mar 27, 2025 6:58 PM UTC based on user reports, ahead of any official Reddit status updates, and the disruption persisted through the evening before tapering off after 8:03 PM UTC.

Reddit did not publish an official incident update during the event, leaving users to rely on community chatter for guidance. The volume of user reports clustered around the peak of the disruption around 7:15 PM UTC, underscoring the widespread nature of the issue across the platform.

Reddit users attempting to comment on the web experienced degraded performance for a short period, affecting both mobile web and desktop web. The issue began around 5:07 PM UTC when Reddit's status page flagged degraded commenting on reddit.com web and an investigation was opened. Some users reported delays or failures when posting comments.

Reddit faced a brief period of degraded performance as the reddit.com Comment Processing component encountered an elevated level of API errors and a lag in publishing comments. The incident began at 9:32 PM UTC and was resolved by 9:57 PM UTC, lasting about 25 minutes. Users may have experienced delays or intermittent failures when posting new comments during this window. The Reddit status page documented an investigation into the elevated errors, with the component returning to normal as the issue was resolved.