Reddit Resolves Outage Issue

By Tanay Dhumal

(Reuters) – Social media platform Reddit announced on Wednesday that it has fixed an issue stemming from an update that caused an outage affecting thousands of users.

“Earlier today we shipped an update that unintentionally impacted platform stability. We deployed a fix and are back up and running,” the company stated to Reuters.

Reddit is popular for its forums, known as “subreddits,” where various communities engage in discussions on different topics. The platform mainly generates revenue through advertising.

According to Downdetector, which monitors outages by collecting status reports from various sources including users, there were over 152,982 outage reports in the U.S. as of 04:09 PM ET.