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topicnews · July 16, 2025

Is Reddit down? The company says it has a fixed failure

Is Reddit down? The company says it has a fixed failure


Topline

Reddit announced that it identified and implemented the cause of a solution for a server problem that led to a failure for many users on Wednesday morning after more than 120,000 users had reported server problems on Downdetektor.com.

Key facts

Reddit said in a contribution to X at 12:21 pm Edt that it implemented a solution for the failure and monitored the results about 15 minutes after it had identified the cause of the failure.

The Reddit spokesman Courtney Geesey-Dorr announced Forbes on Wednesday afternoon that an “update we have made causes a certain instability”, but the company “, as Reddit is excited again after the solution.

Reddit user reported a failure on Wednesday at 11:40 a.m., which increased to more than 120,000 reports around 12 p.m.

Reddit has no reason for the failure, but made a contribution to X at 11:52 a.m., said it was “this problem”.

Key background

According to the company's status page, Reddit has regularly suspended failures in the past few months. The company had server problems for about an hour in June, and thousands of users reported a failure in March. In November, the company was in a period of 24 hours with two failures, which led to tens of thousands of reports on Downdetektor.com. The company has clarified the reason for the failure in a MEM and changed a widespread image of a woman who screams a cat for a picture of the woman who shouts the Reddit mascot. “Reddit is below!” The woman said in the picture, to which the Reddit mascot replied: “There was a mistake in an update recently created by us, but there is a fix and we ram again.”

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