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Reddit experienced “international outages,” NetBlocks, a global internet monitor, said in a post Thursday evening, though it appears the outages have resolved. In that post, the organization said that the incident was “not related to country-level internet disruptions or filtering.”
There was also a big spike of outage reports on Downdetector, with a peak of around 56,000 reports at 7:27PM ET, but the volume of reports appears to have dropped off considerably. On Thursday evening, I saw many posts on X, Threads, and Bluesky indicating that Reddit was down for them, too.
But that being said, I didn’t run into any problems with Reddit myself, so I can’t describe my own experiences of what might have been going on. The platform worked fine when I browsed it from my logged-in account that uses Old Reddit, in an incognito window, and on my mobile browser on my iPhone.
Reddit’s status page has also said that all systems are “operational” with no incidents reported on Thursday, so it’s unclear what the extent of these issues may have been. Reddit didn’t immediately reply to a request for comment.
Update, February 20th: The outages appear to be over.
