On Wednesday, Reddit was acting up again. Some of us at The Verge ran into some issues browsing the site, including threads with blank comments and some pages with a “504 Gateway Timeout” message.
Reddit comments weren’t loading for awhile
A Reddit outage showed the site’s posts to visitors but without any comments attached. There were also small ‘server error’ notifications to highlight that something is wrong.
A Reddit outage showed the site’s posts to visitors but without any comments attached. There were also small ‘server error’ notifications to highlight that something is wrong.
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The key issue seemed to be that comments weren’t loading when you were browsing Reddit’s website when not logged in. In an Incognito Chrome window on desktop, I could see that people posted comments but couldn’t actually see what they wrote. At the bottom of the screen, Reddit’s website showed messages that said, “We had a server error...” I saw this issue when logged out on Reddit’s mobile website as well.
Screenshot by Jay Peters / The Verge
Before I originally published this story, I occasionally ran into the 504 errors on desktop web while logged in, but that seemed to only last for a few minutes.
Reddit didn’t reply to a request for comment. As of this writing, Reddit’s status page says that all systems are operational. Downdetector showed a peak of about 2,000 user reports of issues (which isn’t that high for a huge platform like Reddit).
The issues follow some “major” outages that lasted for about an hour earlier this month.
Update August 23rd, 4:33PM ET: The issues seem to have been fixed.
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