Reddit is back up and running this afternoon after taking the site down for half an hour. The site appears to be sprawling, apart from a blank homepage that doesn’t contain or point to any content. “We encountered an error,” the website said. Attempting to navigate to any specific subreddit produced the error you see above: “Could not load content for this page.” However, as of 4:45 PM ET, we started to see subreddits and comments reload as usual.
The Reddit status update page lists the issue as “Poor Performance for reddit.com” and was originally marked as “Investigating”. At 4:32 PM ET, the status was updated to “Identified – The problem has been identified and a fix is in progress.”
At 4:45 PM ET, it was updated again to “Monitoring – A fix has been implemented and we are monitoring the results.” However, the site’s performance is still listed as “Degraded”.
Of course, the jokes on social networks did not last long:
reddit crashed. How do I google something?
— Corey Atad (@CoreyAtad) August 28, 2024
Reddit and Google signed up senior contract to train the search giant’s own AI on Reddit user data, and search results have been leaning more and more toward Reddit over the past year. Reddit experienced another major outage earlier this year it went down for about an hour. We will monitor the status and update this story accordingly.
Update, August 28, 5:00 PM ET: This story was published as a developing news article about Reddit not working. It was amended after publication with more detailed information about the width and length of the outage, and the title was changed to reflect the current state of the site.
