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Reddit outage history and postmortems

Apps and SaaS · San Francisco, US · 3 incidents in 90 days · 99.96% implied uptime · last 2d ago

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Incidents

50 on file
StartedIncidentDuration
Sep 2300:23 UTCMods Unable to Approve Content1h 4m
Sep 119:51 UTCElevated site errors1h 32m
Jul 2515:05 UTCDegraded performance across the site1h 22m
May 2020:58 UTCInvestigating elevated errors and issues loading comments59m
May 1817:39 UTCInvestigating elevated site errors and issues accessing media3h 25m
May 800:47 UTCAWS availability causing degradation in user experiences for various services3d 13h
May 523:44 UTCSearch experience and subreddit experience is degraded34m
Apr 3019:32 UTCIssues with reporting37m
Apr 720:18 UTCElevated Site Errors36m
Apr 618:49 UTCElevated site Errors1h 8m
Mar 400:35 UTCDegraded performance for reddit.com12m
Jan 1821:33 UTCElevated Errors11m
Jan 1700:20 UTCIncreased error rates across the site3h 17m
Jan 1317:01 UTCInvestigating elevated errors across reddit.com and native apps1h 3m
Dec 1822:49 UTCVideo posts are not displaying correctly2h 11m
Dec 918:28 UTCElevated errors34m
Dec 905:05 UTCElevated errors56m
Nov 3018:48 UTCiOS Push Notifications Not Working5h 12m
Nov 412:27 UTCIncreased error rates on Reddit50m
Oct 2010:24 UTCElevated errors12h 45m
Aug 2523:15 UTCElevated errors with comments40m
Jul 1623:16 UTCElevated errors with comments6h 27m
Jul 1615:52 UTCInvestigating elevated site errors46m
Jun 1918:24 UTCElevated Errors57m
Jun 319:00 UTCElevated errors29m
May 2817:07 UTCErrors viewing image posts on mobile clients53m
May 1622:47 UTCElevated Errors1h 6m
Apr 3012:58 UTCChat - elevated errors36m
Apr 2115:52 UTCInvestigating elevated site errors29m
Apr 219:20 UTCMissing Action Buttons For Moderators2h 11m
Mar 2719:16 UTCDegraded performance for reddit.com15h 39m
Mar 2517:06 UTCDegraded performance for comments2h 25m
Mar 2421:29 UTCElevated Errors24m
Mar 111:01 UTCDelayed Comments1h 33m
Feb 2418:37 UTCElevated Errors1h 17m
Feb 2200:58 UTCElevated Errors1h 49m
Feb 1822:17 UTCIncrease in errors40m
Jan 1709:09 UTCSite issues1h 27m
Nov 2115:51 UTCDegraded performance for reddit.com28m
Nov 2020:38 UTCDegraded performance for reddit.com7h 30m
About Reddit

The last year, day by day

No incident Minor Major CriticalDeeper colour: longer outage

Downtime, added up

Apps and SaaS median
54m

Reddit: 54m weighted downtime in range, category median 29m.

3 incidents, 2 major or critical, 3h 58m of incident time (2h 54m major or critical, 1h 4m partial), longest 1h 32m, implied uptime 99.96%, between Jun 28, 2026 and Sep 25, 2026.

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Questions

Is Reddit down right now?

Check Reddit's own status page at https://www.redditstatus.com for the live state. This page shows Reddit's incident history from that page; the most recent incident started 2026-09-23: "Mods Unable to Approve Content".

How often does Reddit have outages?

Reddit posted 3 incidents in the last 90 days and 20 in the last year, 2 of them major or critical in the last 90 days. The median incident lasted 1h 22m.

When was Reddit's last major outage?

2026-09-01: "Elevated site errors", lasting 1h 32m.

What usually causes Reddit incidents?

Reddit's status updates in this period do not name a root cause.

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