Overview
- Users across the United States reported that Reddit went down, affecting both the mobile app and the website.
- DownDetector, a crowd-sourced outage tracker, logged more than 15,000 problem reports shortly after the disruption began.
- People saw messages including "You broke Reddit" and "Error 500," and many said browsing, posting, voting, and image loading did not work.
- Moderators and regular users also reported issues with routine tasks like changing flair and managing posts.
- Reports and complaints spread on X as people asked if the site was down, while Reddit had not posted a public response or explanation and the generic "Error 500" message revealed no cause or timeline.