- Date
- 2023-08-02
- Duration
- ~1 hour
- Root cause
- Reddit's status page reported elevated error rates; the company did not publicly disclose a detailed technical root cause for the incident.
- Services affected
- Desktop web, mobile web and native apps for logged-in users (vote, comment, spam and Modmail processing reported unaffected)
Impact
Starting around 4:30 PM ET on August 2, 2023, more than 30,000 users reported problems on Downdetector as Reddit became difficult or impossible to use on web and mobile. Reddit's own status page tracked the incident as elevated error rates and marked it resolved later that afternoon, but never published a full cause.