Security News > 2023 > March > Reddit is down in major outage blocking access to web, mobile apps
Reddit is investigating a major outage that is blocking users worldwide from accessing the social network's website and mobile apps.
According to its official status page, Reddit confirmed that its website and apps are currently down, and its engineers looking into the root cause of this outage.
"Reddit is currently offline. We're working to identify the issue," the company says in an incident report published 21 minutes ago at 12:18 PDT. According to the outage monitoring platform Downdetector.com, tens of thousands have already reported experiencing app, website, and server connection issues.
Five days later, on February 15, Reddit was also hit by a major outage blocking access to the home feed and "Preventing comments, awards and karma from displaying or processing correctly" for roughly 30 minutes.
Update March 14, 15:57 EDT: Reddit has confirmed that an internal systems issue is behind this ongoing outage.
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