Is Reddit Down?
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No issues reported. The website, app, and services are fully operational.
Service status is determined by merging official data with a 24-hour baseline of user-reported issues. Our tool recalculates these metrics every 30 minutes to provide a real-time, 360° view of connectivity.
Major Reddit Outages and Causes
Reddit’s reliance on complex cloud infrastructure and real-time database syncing occasionally leads to platform-wide disruptions. Below are a few notable examples
May 7–9, 2026
A multi-day period of service degradation severely impacted the search experience and subreddit feed reliability for thousands of users. The root cause was traced to a major availability issue in the AWS us-east-1 region, which prevented Reddit's backend from properly fetching dynamic content. While many core systems appeared "operational," users faced persistent 500-level internal server errors until AWS fully recovered.
February 11, 2026
A global network security error blocked access to the comment sections across all major browsers and devices. Users from the US, UK, and India reported seeing red banner warnings stating their requests had been blocked by network security. The incident coincided with a high-profile data leak regarding government surveillance on the platform, leading to widespread speculation, though administrators attributed the fix to a server-side caching correction.
Resource: Grand Pinnacle Tribune: Reddit Users Face Outage As DHS Surveillance Revealed
August 25, 2025
Over 20,000 users in the US and UK reported a massive failure where comments refused to load across the mobile app and website. The outage lasted several hours, with 79% of affected users specifically citing issues with the Android and iOS applications. Reddit Status confirmed the team was investigating "elevated errors with comments" and had to deploy a manual backend patch to restore the feed.
Resource: Indian Express: Reddit suffers massive outage in US and UK
How our status checker works?
Our engine bridges the gap between official status updates and actual user experience, providing a 360° view of connectivity. Our tool analyzes user-reported issues over the past 24 hours to calculate the status of each service every 30 minutes.
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How to Fix Your Reddit Connection?
If the official status page says "Systems Operational" but you are still stuck on a loading screen, try these four steps to get your communities back.
1Bypass Regional AWS Failures with a VPN
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Bypass Regional AWS Failures with a VPNMajor Reddit outages are often localized to specific data center regions like "us-east-1". By using BearVPN to connect to a server in a different country or region (such as Europe or US-West), you can bypass the failed infrastructure and access a healthy server node that isn't experiencing degradation.
2Force a Hard Refresh of Your Local Feed
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Force a Hard Refresh of Your Local Feed If your browser is repeatedly showing a "You broke Reddit" message, it might be stuck on a cached error page. Perform a hard refresh (Ctrl + F5) or clear your app's temporary data to wipe the corrupted session token and force your device to request a fresh, clean version of the subreddit you are trying to visit.
3Toggle Off Conflicting Browser Settings
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Toggle Off Conflicting Browser Settings Security errors and red banner warnings on Reddit are often triggered by local browser conflicts or ad-blockers that interfere with Reddit's front-end caching. Try opening Reddit in an incognito window with all extensions disabled to see if a local software conflict is the actual cause of your "Error 500" or security block.
4Switch to Old Reddit Temporarily
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Switch to Old Reddit Temporarily During major UI or mobile app failures, the legacy interface at old.reddit.com often remains operational because it relies on a simpler backend architecture. If the modern app and site are hanging, switching to the legacy view can often serve as a reliable "emergency gateway" to your inbox and subreddits.
Frequently asked questions
Consult our live status indicator at the top of the page; if it shows "Online," the issue might be specific to your ISP or device. A high volume of reports on the live map confirms a verified wide-scale server emergency that Reddit’s team is actively investigating.
This message surfaces when Reddit’s servers are unable to process your specific request, usually due to an internal server error or a backend database failure. It is almost never a local issue on your end and usually requires a fix from Reddit's engineering team.
Yes. If your local network admin has blacklisted Reddit to save bandwidth or limit distractions, BearVPN’s encryption tunnel masks your traffic. This allows you to bypass local firewalls and access your subreddits privately without detection.
If the app is failing while the website works, try clearing your app cache or switching from Wi-Fi to a VPN-secured mobile data connection. This often bypasses faulty DNS records that your local Wi-Fi provider may not have updated yet.
This is often a sign of a "partial outage" where the media delivery servers are down while the text database remains active. Connecting to BearVPN can often resolve this by routing your request to a different media server node that isn't currently overwhelmed.
