- Date
- 2024-08-28
- Duration
- ~1 hour
- Root cause
- Reddit's status page logged 'Degraded Performance for reddit.com' and said it was investigating; a specific technical cause was never published.
- Services affected
- reddit.com web and content loading site-wide
Impact
On August 28, 2024, errors spiked just before 4 PM ET, generating more than 76,000 reports on Downdetector. Users were met with messages such as 'We have encountered an error. Please try again later' and 'We were unable to load the content for this page.' Reddit implemented a fix by about 4:45 PM ET and resumed monitoring, without detailing a root cause.
Sources
- 01
- 02Reddit Status (official incident status page)Official / Reddit2024