StatusDetector

Status report

Reddit

Social news aggregation and community forums

Official site

Current status

Reddit — limited signal

Probe inconclusive

Our automated probe couldn't get a clean read from Reddit (anti-bot block). We have no other signal pointing at a real outage right now — check the official source below.

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Issue score0 / 100
Low riskHigh risk
Data confidence30%

Score based on: probe results. No official status or user reports data available yet.

Evidence

Each independent source we read, in order of weight.

  • Community reports

    neutral

    No anonymous reports in the last 24 hours.

Upstream infrastructure
Amazon Web Services

Providers this service is publicly documented to depend on (plus tagged infrastructure). Colored dots show live status where the provider publishes a feed we can read; a grey dot means no machine-readable feed, not “all clear”.

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Troubleshooting Reddit

  1. Check the official status page (linked above if available).
  2. Try a private/incognito window to rule out cache issues.
  3. Try a different browser or device.
  4. Switch from Wi-Fi to mobile data (or vice versa) to rule out local network issues.
  5. Disable any VPN or proxy temporarily.
  6. Clear your browser cache and cookies, then reload.
  7. Wait a few minutes — brief hiccups often resolve on their own.
Why does Reddit go down?

Reddit outages typically affect specific surfaces — vote tallies stop updating, feeds 5xx, or comment threads fail to load — rather than the whole site being unreachable.

Common issues

  • The "There doesn't seem to be anything here" empty-state when feeds time out, especially during traffic spikes.
  • Vote counts and karma updates lagging behind comment posts.
  • Modmail and subreddit moderation tools failing while the public site loads fine.
  • Old Reddit (old.reddit.com) and New Reddit can have asymmetric issues — one may work while the other doesn't.
  • Image and video host (i.redd.it / v.redd.it) hiccups making posts look broken even when the site itself is up.

What you can try

  • Try old.reddit.com if New Reddit is stuck; they're separate frontends and are sometimes affected independently.
  • Reload just the comment section rather than the whole post page — comment loads can fail by themselves.
  • Status: redditstatus.com.

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StatusDetector is independent and not affiliated with Redditor any of its parent companies. We’re a second opinion on service health — Reddit’s own status page is linked above for comparison.