The outage appears to make media unable to load and is slowing the platform.
Starting around 10:20 a.m. PT, the social platform Reddit appeared to suffer an outage.On the tracking site Downdetector, 4,000 reports spiked with users mostly saying that "Old Reddit" was having issues. Though some comments suggested that "new" Reddit wasn't loading images properly.
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Reports declining but still high
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Reddit services were disrupted Monday. Here's what Reddit is saying.
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As of 8:30 a.m. ET on Monday, Feb. 16, more than 40,000 X users reported issues accessing the social media site.
More than 2,000 users reported issues with Instagram on Tuesday afternoon.
More than 62,000 users had reported issues with X, as of 10 a.m. ET on Friday, Jan. 15.
Link to: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2026/05/why-reddit-blocked-my-daily-visit-to-its-mobile-website/
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