REDDIT users desperately search for answers after apparent outage.
The popular social news website has been unavailable since Wednesday, August 28th.
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Reddit said in a statement that it was investigating the outage.
Reddit updated its statement, adding: “The issue has been identified and a fix is being implemented.”
A few minutes later, the company said it was “monitoring the results” of the “solution” and later added that the “incident had been resolved.”
Users flocked to other social media platforms to express their condolences over the website’s unavailability.
A person shared a screenshot on X with the message “Community not found.”
The message continued: “There are no communities with this name on Reddit. Please double-check the community name or try searching for similar communities.”
Another person wrote on X: “I love how people are checking on Twitter to see if Reddit is down. And yes, it is down.”
“Of course @Reddit is down again,” commented a third.
“There is no way Reddit is down,” said another.
The outage peaked around 4 p.m. on Wednesday, Down Detector reported.
According to the outlet, over 156,000 users reported an outage.
59% reported problems with the Reddit app, 28% with the website, and 13% with the server connection.
More than 73 million people use Reddit every day.
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This is not the first time Reddit has experienced an outage.
IT failure scammers – beware!
“Beware of the scammers,” warns Sean Keach, head of technology and science at The Sun.
This will lead to a flood of dangerous online fraud cases.
During major technology events like these, criminals come from all corners to exploit innocent Internet users.
You may receive strange calls, text messages or emails warning you about a hack and asking for information.
Therefore, be extremely cautious if you are asked for personal information such as your credit card information or phone number to resolve this IT outage.
You may also be told that you urgently need to download security software.
This is another classic scam attempt in which fraudsters install dangerous malware on your computers.
Don’t fall for it: your computer should be perfectly fine, so you as a normal person don’t need to do anything.
This wasn’t a cyberattack – it’s just a bad corporate computer update. Don’t listen to the scammers.
According to Downdetector, 67,000 US Reddit users reported problems with the site on April 25.
Problems also occurred for 15,000 users in the UK.
When attempting to access the website, users received the message “Oops, something went wrong. Please try again later.”
Redditors also reported receiving the error message “502 Bad Gateway.”
The company resolved the issues about an hour and a half after they occurred.
Reddit wrote on X: “We are now confident that all Reddit services are available and stable.”
“This incident has been resolved.”
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