Following some obvious outages on Thursday, Reddit handled extra points Friday night that lasted for round two hours.
Initially, once I logged in on my desktop browser throughout Friday’s outage, Reddit wouldn’t load in any respect — I’d simply run into error pages. In an incognito window, the positioning loaded, although it appeared to load slower than regular. I used to be additionally capable of load the positioning on cell Safari whereas logged out and after I logged in.
Reddit’s standing web page stated in a 7:58PM ET message that “We’re experiencing an elevated degree of errors and are presently trying into the problem.” In an 8:40PM ET message, Reddit stated that “The problem has been recognized and a repair is being applied,” and at 9:47PM ET, the corporate stated that “This incident has been resolved.”
Downdetector confirmed an enormous spike that topped out at round 80,000 outage studies. The spike began to go up shortly after 7:30PM ET, although as of proper after 9PM ET, the quantity of studies appeared to have nearly absolutely dropped.
The firm didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark.
Yesterday, Reddit reportedly handled “worldwide outages,” in line with international web monitor NetBlocks. I personally didn’t run into any points throughout these outages.
Update, February twenty first: Reddit says the incident has been resolved.
