Article 6VESB Reddit has recovered from another outage

Reddit has recovered from another outage

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Jay Peters
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Following some apparent outages on Thursday, Reddit dealt with more issues Friday evening that lasted for around two hours.

Initially, when I logged in on my desktop browser during Friday's outage, Reddit wouldn't load at all - I would just run into error pages. In an incognito window, the site loaded, though it seemed to load slower than usual. I was also able to load the site on mobile Safari while logged out and after I logged in.

Reddit's status page said in a 7:58PM ET message that We're experiencing an elevated level of errors and are currently looking into the issue." In an 8:40PM ET message, Reddit said that The issue has been identified and a fix is being implemented," and at 9:47PM ET, the company said that This incident has been resolved."

Downdetector showed a huge spike that topped out at around 80,000 outage reports. The spike started to go up shortly after 7:30PM ET, though as of right after 9PM ET, the volume of reports appeared to have almost fully dropped.

The company didn't immediately reply to a request for comment.

Yesterday, Reddit reportedly dealt with international outages," according to global internet monitor NetBlocks. I personally didn't run into any issues during those outages.

Update, February 21st: Reddit says the incident has been resolved.

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