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)

 

[Smaug's Smokey Hole 2]

Maybe they hired the worthless trannies that Musk fired?

 

[Cheerlead-in-Chief]

Should the Farms do a site-wide celebration?
After all, they  did make a thread celebrating when this site was down...

 

[reptile baht spaniard rid]

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.

Sounds heckin’ problematic to me; implying that all Blacks are gorilla niggers on reddit

 

[Smug]

Should the Farms do a site-wide celebration?
After all, they  did make a thread celebrating when this site was down...

That would just make this site look stupid when they come back up.

 

[ArthuriusMartyrius]

There is delicious irony that Reddit has become a far worse hole than 4chan ever was. I blame the jannies.

Hope it goes away forever or it melts down like 8ch did.

4chan is Reddit Lite now. 8chan was more like old school 4chan which is why it was taken down forever.

 

[Male Idiot]

A few hours of respite from the utter hive of scum and villany that is reddit. Any nice spicy takes on twatter about it? TTD!

 

[Stoneheart]

They should be nicer to their admin...

 

[Agent Abe Caprine]

Where will I get my mpreg porn now

AO3

 

[Cheerlead-in-Chief]

AO3

DeviantArt is still around or you can act it out in roleplaying sites

 

[AnsemSoD1]

DeviantArt is still around or you can act it out in roleplaying sites

No no no, your still doing it all wrong, I shall now invoke the ancient autistic rite of Tumblr!

 

[Swordsman]

Not surprising to see that reddit is now worse than 4chan

 

[WhatInTheActualFuck]

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.

Depends on the site. Reddit? Who cares. Amazon? That's the [CURRENT_YEAR] version of having every Wal-Mart across the country close unexpectedly and simultaneously. People would notice.

 

[Cheerlead-in-Chief]

No no no, your still doing it all wrong, I shall now invoke the ancient autistic rite of Tumblr!

MlM/gay fandom Roleplay is still allowed in Tumblr btw.

 

[Table Country]

TWO WHOLE HOURS? OH THE HORROR!

 

[Colloid]

"Shit, now I got nothing else left to do for the last few hours of my shift." - some Redditard trying to slack off at work

 

[Hog]

I wondered why it started fucking up halfway through me screenshotting a tranny.

It seems fine now though.

 

[Zero Day Defense]

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.

Is it that it's mental health poison, or is it just a microcosmic reflection of American culture?

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 think they forgot that Daylight Savings Time started Sunday.

 

[Duke Nukem]

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.

Let's extend this shutdown to TikTok, Replika, and anything 2D waifu AI kinda shit.

Then again this is the only place I go to on the internet on a regular basis.

 

[pikachudidnothingwrong]

Diversity hires for the win!

Maybe this is all cover for a going public porn/nudity purge? Pretty much the last things left on the site that isn't progs and leftards reeeeeing.

 

[AIM Henchman]

Better get that back online. Otherwise, how are the 8000 "journalists" whose "career" is paraphrasing AITA or MalicousCompliance posts going to generate content now? Their cats might starve!