Reddit down after millions face 'connection error'

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Reddit down after millions face 'connection error'
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A Reddit outage left users in places including the US and Australia, unable to connect to the message board-style social media platform.

Reddit stated that ‘a fix is in place and we’re ramping back up’. A Reddit outage has reportedly left millions of users in the US, Australia and elsewhere facing a ‘connection error’. The message board-style social media platform went down just before 3pm ET on Wednesday, according to Downdetector. At around 3.30pm, there were more than 47,000 reports of outages, Downdetector showed.

Downdetector shows Reddit outages reported in UK time It was not immediately clear which countries were affected, but the Daily Mail reported that millions of Australians were frustrated with the outage. Shortly before 4pm ET, Reddit wrote on X in response to a question on it being down: ‘Yes. We’re working on it.’ A Reddit spokesman acknowledged the issue around 4.45pm and told The New York Times: ‘A fix is in place and we’re ramping back up.

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