Reddit Down: Site Says Fix May Take 'Some Time to Implement'

On Tuesday, Reddit had an hours-long outage that rendered the popular discussion site unavailable to many users, and the business provided no Timeframe for when it would be fixed.

Reddit's status page noted in an update at 2:43 p.m. PT, "We've discovered a remedy, which may take some time to deploy; in the meantime, prepare your bananas (or eat them!)."

According to tracking site Downdetector, user complaints of difficulty accessing Reddit's website and applications peaked about 12:00 PT on Tuesday, surpassing more than 60,000 outage reports. At 12:18 p.m. PT, the Reddit status page announced, "Reddit is now unavailable for investigation. We're attempting to determine the issue," and afterwards acknowledged the troubles resulted from a "internal systems issue."

"Enjoy the productivity," Reddit's official Twitter account said at 3:37 p.m. PT. "We'll be back up and running soon."

According to Reddit, there are over 100,000 active communities from all over the world on the site, covering a wide range of subjects and interests.

Reddit announced a "data security issue" last month in which a hacker used a "sophisticated phishing effort" to get access to internal papers and business information. According to the firm, it became aware of the phishing assault on February 5 and that the material accessed may have contained "limited Reddit code, limited contact information for a small number of corporate contacts and personnel (current and past), as well as limited advertising information." According to Reddit, no high-risk data, such as credit card information, firm financial information, account passwords, ad strategy, or campaign results, were obtained.

Reddit submitted a secret draught registration statement with the SEC for a possible initial public offering in December 2021. The corporation is worth more than $10 billion.

Reddit was founded in 2005 and was purchased by Condé Nast the following year. Condé Nast spun out the site in 2011, but Advance Publications, Condé Nast's parent company, kept a minority ownership.