Reddit is again up after a 30-minute outage

Reddit is again up after an outage took the location out for half an hour this afternoon. The location seems to have been down throughout the board, other than a clean homepage that didn’t comprise or level to any content material. “We encountered an error,” the web site reads. Trying to navigate to any particular subreddit introduced up the error you see above: “We had been unable to load the content material for this web page.” Nevertheless, as of 4:45PM ET, we started to see seeing subreddits and feedback loading once more as common.

The Reddit status update page lists the issue as “Degraded Efficiency for reddit.com,” and was initially flagged as “Investigating.” At 4:32PM ET, the standing was up to date as “Recognized – The problem has been recognized and a repair is being carried out.”

At 4:45PM ET, it was up to date once more as “Monitoring – A repair has been carried out and we’re monitoring the outcomes.” Nevertheless, the location’s efficiency nonetheless labeled as “Degraded.”

In fact, the jokes on social media didn’t take lengthy to start out rolling in:

Reddit and Google signed a high-profile deal for the search big to coach its AI on Reddit person knowledge, and search outcomes have been more and more Reddit-leaning over the previous yr. Reddit had one other main outage earlier this yr when it went down for nearly an hour. We’ll control the standing and replace this story accordingly.

Replace, August 28, 5PM ET: This story was a broadcast as a growing information artcle about Reddit being down. It was modified after publish with extra particulars in regards to the breadth and size of the outage, and the headline has been modified to replicate the location’s present standing.