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About Reddit outages
Written by the HostTracker monitoring team · updated from live probe data.
Reddit occupies an odd position during internet outages: it is where large numbers of people go to find out whether something else is broken, which means when Reddit itself goes down the usual method for confirming an outage disappears with it. Its own failures are often partial in a recognisable way - the front page loads but comment threads will not expand, or the old and new web interfaces behave differently, or the mobile app fails while the desktop site is fine. Reddit serves an enormous volume of cached, anonymous page views alongside a much smaller volume of expensive logged-in and write traffic, and those paths degrade separately, which is why "I can read but not post" is such a common shape for a Reddit incident.
Common causes of Reddit downtime
Comment and vote service degradation, where threads fail to load or submit while cached listing pages still render
Traffic surges around major breaking news, when a handful of threads absorb far more concurrent readers than normal
Differences between the web app, old.reddit.com and the mobile apps, which run on distinct front-end paths and fail independently
Login and session failures that leave anonymous browsing working while every logged-in action errors out
Not sure whether it's Reddit or your own connection? Read the full breakdown in our website down checker guide for a general walkthrough of diagnosing any outage, from DNS failures to expired certificates.
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Questions people ask during an outage
The live probe run on this page tests reddit.com from a broad sample of HostTracker's 300+-location monitoring network - many independent networks at the same moment, rather than just your own connection. If every location fails to reach it, the outage is real and affects everyone; if only a few locations fail while most load normally, the problem is local to those regions or networks rather than Reddit being fully down. A single refresh from your own browser can never make that distinction, because it only ever tests from one vantage point on one network.
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That is a real, partial outage rather than a problem on your side. Reddit serves listing pages heavily from cache, so the front page and subreddit listings can render normally while the services behind comments, votes and submissions are failing. If threads hang or return errors across several different subreddits, it is platform-side; if it happens in one community only, check whether that subreddit has been set private or restricted. Trying old.reddit.com is a useful second data point, because it uses a different front end and sometimes keeps working when the newer interface does not.
This is the practical problem with using a social platform as your outage detector - the moment it fails, so does your method. An independent check is the answer: the live probe run on this page tests reddit.com from monitoring locations around the world at once and tells you within seconds whether it is unreachable everywhere or only from your network. That distinction is the one that matters, and it is the one no amount of refreshing can give you. It also works for the inverse case, when you are trying to find out whether some other service is down and Reddit is unavailable to ask.
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