Reddit Experiences Widespread Outage, Users Met with Errors

Reddit users across the United States have encountered difficulties accessing the site due to a widespread outage that began on November 20. The company confirmed an «unresolved incident,» resulting in «degraded performance» for reddit.com, as indicated on their official status page.

Attempts to access the Reddit desktop site have been met with the error message: «upstream connect error or disconnect/reset before headers. reset reason: connection failure.» Additionally, mobile app users are facing issues, receiving an error message stating, «Sorry about that. There was an error loading content.» The outage persists without an immediate explanation or estimated time for resolution.

The problems began early in the afternoon, with a significant increase in reports of the site being down after 3 p.m. Eastern Time. Social media platforms, including X (formerly Twitter), have seen a flurry of complaints from users attempting to navigate the site during this time.

Geographical data from Down Detector suggests that the outage is widespread, affecting users from various cities such as Detroit, New York, Tampa, San Francisco, and Seattle. Reddit’s official status account on social media acknowledged the issues and stated, «We are currently investigating this issue.» However, no further details have been made available regarding the cause or progress of the investigation.

While Reddit remains accessible to some, many continue to experience intermittent connectivity issues as the company works towards resolving the outage. The incident follows recent trends of outages affecting other platforms, highlighting the volatility of digital networks in handling user surges.