Disaster Reddit has been down for more than two hours - Please extend that to forever

Reddit is in the midst of an hours-long outage that’s affecting its websites and apps, according to the company’s status page. I’m consistently seeing an error message when trying to load Reddit on my Chrome browser.

However, a fix may be near. “We’ve identified a fix which may take some time to implement, in the meantime ready your bananas (or eat them!),” the company wrote in a 5:43PM ET message on its status page.”



It’s taken awhile to get to this point. “We’ve identified an internal systems issue and are working to determine a fix,” the company said at 12:56PM ET on its status page. The preceding message, from nearly 40 minutes before, noted that Reddit is “is currently offline.”

The problem appears to be widespread, with about 60,000 people reporting issues on Downdetector at their peak. The volume of reports appears to have fallen, but that may be because fewer people are actively reporting issues given how long the outage has lasted. Many Verge staffers have been experiencing problems loading Reddit as well.

It’s unclear exactly what the issue is. Reddit’s status page says that both the desktop and mobile web are going through a “major outage,” while native mobile apps are experiencing a “partial outage.” The iOS app is still very broken for me; the Home and Discover tabs are showing content but not comment threads.

When reached for comment, Reddit spokesperson Courtney Geesey-Dorr pointed to the company’s status page.

Update March 14th, 7:07PM ET: Added new status update from Reddit.

https://www.theverge.com/2023/3/14/23640132/reddit-down-outage-offline-loading-posts-comments (Archive)

 

[Duke Nukem]

lol They're trying to frame increased workload as a good thing. Wages remain the same.

Is that the workload that was intended for the r/antiwork people? Don't get we wrong I have my own grievances against so-called "workplace culture" but if you want anything, like, you know, a functional society, people have to do stuff.

 

[Tasty Tatty]

“We’ve identified an internal systems issue

One of their tranny programmers likely hanged himself with the wires.

 

[ZipDisk]

How much money are they losing? That's what I want to know.

 

[Bland Crumbs]

Seems to be up.

 

[Hitman One]

Close the gates, nool.

 

[Basement Dwelling Dork]

I'm starting to think its reddit purging from that leak someone just made on a marvel movie since Disney was riding their assess about it.
Just a retarded guess.

 

[Cheesegirl78]

Still down here.

 

[kcbbq]

The containment is going to fail like when the guy with no dick shut down the power in Ghostbusters.

 

[Sniperwoof]

I hope it stays down forever. Reddit is unironically mental health poison. I felt a lot better after I stopped looking at it at all.

 

[WelfareNiggerQueen]

Is AWS having issues? Only time I've noticed Reddit having issues is when AWS has issues. Reddit is one of those places that whored themselves out completely.

 

[Mr.Miyagi]

Looking through their status messages what the hell is up with the banana comment? Are they trying to saying their users are monkey related?

I think it's some old meme they have about drawing pictures of bananas when the site goes down to pass the time. Or writing something on a banana? I don't remember, I think it's like a decade old at this point.

 

[NoReturn]

I'm starting to think its reddit purging from that leak someone just made on a marvel movie since Disney was riding their assess about it.
Just a retarded guess.

"Ant Man and the Wasp"? Who the fuck cares?

Looking through their status messages what the hell is up with the banana comment? Are they trying to saying their users are monkey related?

I think it's some old meme they have about drawing pictures of bananas when the site goes down to pass the time. Or writing something on a banana? I don't remember, I think it's like a decade old at this point.

It comes from the "Banana for scale" meme where people would post images with a banana to show how large something is.

 

[Vyse Inglebard]

This is just cover for their master plan:

 

[Judex Meus]

And nothing of value was lost.

 

[Fomo Hoire]

Is this article from the future?

If this article was intended to be updated in the future, that would suggest that the downtime was planned in advance and MSM is colluding with Reddit to disguise the downtime as unintentional. "This" being potentially, them rendering the site unarchivable while they do voodoo magic.

... I'm sure they have more graceful ways to hide data, but I'm still not ready to rule out that level of malevolence yet.

Looking through their status messages what the hell is up with the banana comment? Are they trying to saying their users are monkey related?

It could be something about the code monkeys working on the fix. Google embraced the meme more, but they're far from the only ones to use that term.

Failing that, I would assume degenerate butt stuff.

 

[Dan Abrams]

Every hour that Reddit is down means 10 kids don’t get raped.

 

[RACISM]

There only one reason this happened.

They needed to shit something down. Someone finally made a non retarded post and they had to shut everything down to ban and delete him before he influenced someone.

 

[Strange Wilderness]

Anyone else think its pretty sad that website downtime is now a newsworthy topic? Every time Facebook or Amazon goes down you get articles written about it. Meanwhile this site experiences some downtime and the media does a victory lap that its the end of Kiwi Farms for real this time.

 

[Catler]

There are few sites I dislike more than reddit. I do not feel bad for them and I hope the mods have to reevaluate their lives during the downtime.

 

[Ренат]

Looking through their status messages what the hell is up with the banana comment? Are they trying to saying their users are monkey related?

They're gunna fuck themselves.