Reddit is experiencing some big issues at the moment. I can’t load any Reddit pages on my browsers where I’m logged into the site — usually, I run into an error message, though I’ve also hit a blank white screen. However, if I try to visit the site while logged out, the pages load fine.
Things aren’t just down for me. A few colleagues here at The Verge are having some troubles loading pages as well, and Downdetector shows a peak of around 30,000 reports of issues of some kind as of this writing.
Reddit’s status page says the company is looking into the problems. “We are currently investigating elevated error rates across Reddit,” according to a post from 4:58PM ET. The status site also says that there is a “major outage” on desktop web, mobile web, and the company’s native mobile apps. In response to an email asking when things might be fixed, Reddit spokesperson Tim Rathschmidt said he is looking into it.
Wednesday’s outages follow some other issues that cropped up in recent weeks. In June, the platform was crashing because of the many subreddits going dark to protest the company’s API pricing. In July, Reddit search was a little broken for hours.
Update August 2nd, 5:30PM ET: Added reply from a Reddit spokesperson.
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