Reddit faces outage with community site experiencing widespread error, company says ‘issue resolved’

Status page of the social media site suggested that the website was experiencing a “degraded performance” at 4:16PM ET and it was acknowledged by Reddit around 4:45PM ET.

Reddit is popular for its ‘subreddit’ where people discuss varied subjects and the company depends on advertising for its revenue. (Reuters)

Social media platform Reddit faced a widespread outage which affected thousands of its users across the globe and users were left with a ‘server error. Try again later’ message for around 45 minutes on Wednesday.

According to The Verge, the status page of the social media site suggested that the website was experiencing a “degraded performance” at 4:16PM ET and it was later acknowledged by the Reddit team around 4:45PM ET and the company said, “A fix has been implemented and we are monitoring the results.”

This is a similar issue which Reddit users faced in April when “try again later” messages popped up on the social media platform’s site due to a back-end issue which plunged Reddit into a complete offline mode.

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Reddit, which is popular for its ‘subreddit’ where people discuss varied subjects and the company depends on advertising for its revenue, clarified in a statement to Reuters that the issue affecting users has been resolved.

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

Downdetector, a website which tracks outages by accumulating user’s responses, analysed a total of 152,982 reported outages in the US as of 04:09 PM ET.

On the business front, Reddit has been facing issues with AI bots and it is securing deals with OpenAI in order to address the bot issue. The company also recently brought its initial public offering (IPO) with a total valuation of $6.5 billion.

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