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Reddit Outage Hobbles Images and Video as Fix Rolls Out

Recovery will be gradual during cache re-synchronization.

Overview

  • Reddit suffered a widespread outage Monday that broke image and video loading across both the mobile app and desktop site.
  • Reports on Downdetector surged to about 9,300 at the peak before easing, with many users citing problems on the legacy “Old Reddit” interface.
  • Reddit’s status page said engineers identified the issue and began implementing a fix, and users should expect errors, slow feeds, and missing new media during the rollout.
  • Many people encountered blank pages, sluggish comments, and feeds that stopped after a handful of recent posts, leading some to vent on X.
  • Downdetector logs user complaints rather than causes, and there is no confirmed link to an external provider like Microsoft Azure.