Reddit Outage: Reddit recovers after brief outage affects over 100,000 users

Reddit is back online after a widespread outage temporarily knocked the platform offline for thousands of users on Monday.

On the morning of April 21, 2025, Reddit began experiencing elevated error rates across both its website and mobile apps. The issue was first detected around 8:52 a.m. PDT, prompting the team to begin investigating the cause.

According to the Reddit status page, engineers had identified the root of the problem at 9:01 a.m PDT and immediately began working on a fix. Just nine minutes later, at 9:10 a.m., a solution was deployed and Reddit transitioned into a monitoring phase to ensure stability across the platform.

Roughly ten minutes after that, by 9:21 a.m., the team confirmed that the fix had been successful. The incident was officially marked as resolved, with services fully restored for users.

According to Downdetector.com, which monitors service disruptions, more than 112,000 users had trouble accessing Reddit at the height of the outage. Reports started flooding in earlier in the day and began tapering off by midday, with just over 2,200 still experiencing issues by 12:01 p.m. ET.

The company acknowledged the issue on its official status page, confirming that the problem has been resolved after they looked into a spike in errors affecting both the website and mobile apps.

No details yet on what triggered the disruption, but Reddit says it’s all sorted now.