Popular social media platform and forum site Reddit experienced a major outage that affected hundreds of thousands of users worldwide for circa one hour. Over 112,400 users reported access issues, consisting of error messages, failed connections, and inability to load content.
The incident, which began around 11:20 a.m. ET and was resolved by 12:21 p.m. ET, is the second outage for the social media platform in 2025.
The outage began when users started experiencing various issues accessing the Reddit platform. By 11:39 a.m. ET, Downdetector.com, an application that tracks service outages by collecting user reports, recorded that more than 112,400 users had reported problems with the platform. These issues came across as app freezes, connection errors, and excessively slow loading times across Reddit’s services.
Reddit, however, acknowledged the disruption, stating that it was “investigating elevated errors across its website and the app,” as the outage affected both mobile and desktop versions of the forum site. According to the company’s status report, this same “elevated errors” were reported three times in February, as well as a few weeks ago.
By 12:01 p.m. ET, approximately 40 minutes after the peak disruption which began around 11:20 a.m. ET, the number of user complaints tracked down by Downdetector.com had significantly decreased to about 2,200 from over 112,400, indicating that Reddit was steadily resolving the issue.
A Reddit spokesperson said to TechCrunch, “We were briefly unable to connect to one of our databases, which caused the outage. A fix was quickly deployed, and we are now up and running.”
