If you’re currently having trouble loading Reddit, you’re not alone. The popular social media site experienced widespread outages on Wednesday. Around 4 p.m. ET, reports of major issues on the site began piling up on Downdetector.com.
Reddit seems to have been back online since 4:30pm ET, but I still occasionally see an error message like this: “Our CDN was unable to reach our servers.”
During the outage, I also received this error message several times:
Upstream connection error or disconnect/reset before headers. Retried and final reason for reset: connection error
On Reddit’s status page, the company states that it began investigating an issue causing “performance degradation” at 4:16 p.m. ET. At 4:32 p.m. ET, the company updated the page to state that “the issue has been identified and a fix is being implemented.”
Looking at the uptime graph, the site has had a relatively smooth year in terms of extended outages. There were a few short periods of downtime in April, but otherwise 2024 has been smooth sailing. We’ll provide an update when Reddit implements the fix.
UPDATE | Reddit implemented a fix at 4:45 p.m. ET and is “monitoring the results.”
