Reddit says it has recovered from some ‘major’ outages
Screenshot by Jay Peters / The Verge Reddit says it has recovered from some big issues that lasted for about an hour. While outages were happening, I couldn't load any Reddit pages on my browsers where I'm logged into the site - usually, I ran into an error message, though I also hit a blank white screen. However, if I tried to visit the site while logged out, pages loaded fine. As I write this, I'm not having any troubles browsing Reddit.
Things weren't just down for me. A few colleagues here at The Verge were having some troubles loading pages as well, and Downdetector showed a peak of nearly 30,000 user reports.
Reddit says it had resolved the incident in a message at 6:15PM ET on its status site. During the issues, the status site said that there was a major outage" on...