- Date
- 2025-07-16
- Duration
- Roughly 1 hour (short-lived but global)
- Root cause
- Reddit's status page said it investigated elevated site errors, identified the issue and implemented a fix; it did not publish a detailed technical root cause.
- Services affected
- reddit.com web and mobile apps globally; home feeds, subreddits, profiles, threads and commenting
Impact
On July 16, 2025, a global outage drove more than 100,000 reports on Downdetector, peaking near 138,000 in the US. Attempts to load Reddit on web or mobile returned errors, with home feeds, subreddits, profiles and threads showing no content and comments failing to post. Reddit acknowledged the incident on its status page and marked it resolved after deploying a fix.