Reddit experienced site-wide issues with subreddits

Trying to visit a subreddit returned an error page

by Jay Peters

Apr 20, 2020, 7:34 PM UTC

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Jay Peters is a senior reporter covering technology, gaming, and more. He joined The Verge in 2019 after nearly two years at Techmeme.

Reddit experienced an outage on Monday, and while the site was experiencing issues, it would return an error page when you tried to access subreddits. I was able to access the front page during the outage, but clicking on a link to a subreddit took me to an error page.

Reddit said the site was “degraded” on its status page, though noted at 3:02PM ET that “issue has been identified and a fix is being implemented.” Reddit said at 5:45PM ET that the issue was resolved.

Down Detector indicated a rise in user-reported problems at around 2:30PM ET.

Many online services have experienced significant outages as internet traffic has increased considerably while people are at home during the COVID-19 pandemic. Xbox Live experienced issues for the first time in a month on April 10th, mobile video service Quibi had an outage on its launch day, and chat service Discord experienced server outages on March 16th.

Update April 20th, 6:26PM ET: Added link to Reddit tweet stating that the issue was resolved.

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