Reddit’s mobile and web applications went down on Wednesday afternoon, with more than 150,000 users reporting outages on Downdetector as of 1:30 p.m. in San Francisco. When trying to access Reddit’s homepage, users were met with the message, “Server error. Try again later.”
The company itself reported a “degraded status” for Reddit.com as of 1:16 p.m. PT on its status page, but now says its systems are operational roughly an hour later. After investigating the issue, the company says a software update pushed out to the platform was to blame.
“Earlier today we shipped an update that unintentionally impacted platform stability,” said Reddit spokesperson Tim Rathschmidt in an email to TechCrunch. “We deployed a fix and are back up and running.”
As of 2:16 p.m., Reddit’s status page was updated to show that the issue had been resolved after a fix was implemented.
In the past 90 days, Reddit has had very few major outages like this, according to its status page. Some users may still be having difficult accessing the platform, but services should trickle back online shortly, according to the company.
