Reddit down — live updates on outage

Coming back?

Reddit may be slowly coming back online.

The main Reddit social accounts and status have not changed.

However, we were able to successfully respond to a post in the r/boardgames subreddit. We haven’t tested making a post yet, but the comment appeared to go through.

Though we are still getting the server error red bar, so Humpty Dumpty hasn’t totally been put back together.

Down Detector has steeply declined to just under 15,000 reports. We are still seeing complaints on X and Bluesky.

Other social sites experience issues today

Reddit isn’t the only platform that has seen problems today. Which still says Server error in a red bar across the top of the feed, even if you can get it to load.

Earlier in the morning, Venmo briefly went down for about an hour with users unable to access the app or the website. Venmo appears to be back up as of this writing.

At the same time Reddit started experiencing issues, the newer social media platform Bluesky also started to receive outage reports. Though that outage appears to have been quickly resolved.

The shambolic entity that is X appears to be working fine.

Reddit still down

While the Down Detector outage reports seems to be steadily declining, Reddit appears to remain down.

For awhile we were able to kind of get on the site and even logged into a couple different accounts.

However, we are only getting the upstream error now.

The Reddit status page remains the same reporting “degraded” performance.

Outage dips slightly

For us, the Reddit page still shows as down with upstream connect error.

Though we’ve been able to intermittently access the page.

A Reddit spokesperson told us that they are looking into the issue but did not have more to share at this time.

Over on Down Detector, the outage has dip from a peak of 48,000 plus reports to around 33,000 reports. Meanwhile, X and Bluesky are seeing multiple reports of the outage from confused users.

Reddit confirms outage on Twitter

The Reddit Status account confirmed that Reddit is down but that they are working on the issue.

The Status page currently says that “This incident affects: reddit.com (Desktop Web, Mobile Web, Native Mobile Apps, Comment Processing, Spam Processing).”

Basically everything.

Reddit status intermittent

Access to Reddit appears intermittent, a Tom’s Guide colleague got the above image when they tried to access the website.

However, others were able to get on to the main page, though it did appear sluggish.

I was able to access the site but received an error message before it reloaded to the same error message above.

Which reads, “upstream connect error or disconnect/reset before headers. reset reason: connection failure”

Reddit acknolwedges outage

Shortly after the outage began, the Reddit server status website changed showing that something was affecting the service.

A note at the top of the page reveals that reddit is working on the issue.

The X Reddit Status posted a similar message at 12:38 PM Pacific.