Reddit was down — it had a huge global outage that was shortlived. According to Downdetector, more than 100,000 outage reports poured in, and the company acknowledged the issues on its live service ...

Back in November, when Reddit saw its last major outage, the issue was attributed to a "bug in a recent update" to the platform. Down Detector has steeply declined to just under 1,300 reports.

Company reports outage (and memes) In this photo illustration, the Reddit logo is displayed on a cell phone and computer monitor on February 13, 2024 in Los Angeles, California.© Mario Tama ...

Reddit experienced a widespread outage Tuesday afternoon, with more than 26,000 users reporting issues accessing the platform, according to Downdetector.

On Wednesday, a widespread Reddit outage impacted tens of thousands of users in the United States, preventing access to posts ...

Reddit was working on the outage (posting on X, formerly Twitter, that "Yes. We're working on it.") An additional post said, in meme format, that there was a bug in a recent update.

Reddit was acquired by Condé Nast in 2006 for $10 million, soon after it launched in 2005. In 2011, Condé Nast spun out the site, while parent Advance Publications retained a minority stake.

Outage tracking site DownDetector indicates the problem began around 3:00 p.m. Eastern. Within half an hour, more than 46,000 reports had come in from users unable to access the site.

According to the site DownDetector, there had been more than 45,000 reports of Reddit outages just after 3:30 p.m.