Reddit was down for thousands of users on Thursday, according to outage tracking
website Downdetector.com, a day after the social media company said it had fixed a software bug.
Downdetector, which tracks outages by collating status reports from several sources including users, showed more than 14,000 reports of outages.
Reddit’s status page confirmed the company was investigating a problem with its website. The social media company did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
But Techradar.com said the company was aware of the issue and quoted them as saying “An update we made caused some instability. We reverted and are seeing Reddit ramp back up.”
The outage began around 10 a.m. ET and at its peak impacted more than 70,000 users, according to Downdetector.
The company had rolled out a fix for a software bug that prevented tens of thousands of people from accessing the social media platform on Wednesday, according to Reddit. No details were shared on what the bug might have been or how it was affecting Reddit servers.
Later Reddit shared on its @redditstatusaccountonX, “The company’s investigating the problem but there’s no time frame on when it will be fixed nor is there an answer about what’s the cause of this morning’s outage either.”
Techradar said yesterday’s more extended outage was the result of some bad code that introduced a bug. One thing that is not going on here, according to Reddit, is any outside force tampering with the platform.
Instead, it’s just a run of bad coding luck and maybe a call for Reddit to have a word with its developers, Techradar said.
The Reddit app is favoured by people posting on a variety of issues and subjects. It is often described as a “unique animal” in the internet world that no other site really captures all of its moods.
With Reuters inputs
