Reddit experiences major outage as thousands report issues

On Thursday, March 27, 2025, users across the United States encountered significant issues accessing the social media platform Reddit. These problems began around 2:30 p.m. Eastern Time, leading to widespread complaints. According to outage monitoring site DownDetector, reports surged, with over 35,000 users indicating problems with the platform by approximately 3:15 p.m. ET. The outage affected both the Reddit website and mobile app, with users facing error messages or completely blank pages. The primary issues reported included difficulties across the app (47%) and website (42%), as well as server connection issues accounting for the remaining 11%. Concurrently, users experienced disruptions on platform X, formerly known as Twitter, revealing a broader trend of service interruptions. By 3:48 p.m. ET, Reddit's official status account reported they were actively investigating the outages and implemented a fix shortly afterward, suggesting they were closely monitoring its effectiveness. While reports of problems began to taper off around 3:45 p.m., over 28,000 users were still reporting issues by that time, indicating the extent of the difficulties faced by users. The technical problems for Reddit were not unprecedented. The platform had experienced slight usage troubles earlier in the year, though these did not escalate into major incidents. In November of the previous year, Reddit faced consecutive outages that disrupted services for many users, with one of the outages resulting from a bug in a recent update. The timing of the current outage comes shortly after other major social media platforms, such as Meta's Facebook and Instagram, encountered unrelated disruptions, accentuating the fragility of online platforms in maintaining consistent service reliability.