- Date
- November 2024
- Duration
- ~4 hours
- Root cause
- Reddit attributed the outage to a bug in a recent update; the company said it was briefly unable to connect to one of its databases, which took the site down.
- Services affected
- reddit.com desktop web, mobile web, native mobile apps, comment and spam processing
Impact
Beginning around 3 p.m. ET on November 20, 2024, users worldwide saw 'Our CDN was unable to reach our servers' errors. Downdetector reports peaked near 76,000, with some users still affected past 5:30 p.m. ET.