Is Reddit down? Server status reports indicate outages

UPDATE: Reddit is now up and running as of 1:45 pm PT / 4:45 pm ET / 9:45 pm BST.

Don’t worry—you haven’t been banned. If you’re wondering if Reddit is down, recent reports indicate that possible server outages have affected users worldwide.

According to Down Detector, Reddit began suffering outages to its server at approximately 1 pm PST, with user reports reaching a peak of 142,630 as of writing. It’s currently unclear what’s caused this latest network issue to plague the site. However, according to the site’s backend team, they “are currently investigating this issue,” so more information should arrive in the next few hours. We will also continue monitoring the situation and provide updates once they’re available.

More recently, a new update noted that the team has identified the issue “and a fix is being implemented.” Although a specific timeframe still hasn’t been provided, we expect these ongoing network issues to be resolved sooner rather than later,

We tried to access Reddit to check for ourselves, and we were unable to get onto the site.

We’re not quite sure we’re ready to deal with the worldwide fallout of Reddit going down for everyone, though we’re going to keep an eye out for any official announcements.

More to follow.