{"id":163578,"date":"2025-04-21T16:33:55","date_gmt":"2025-04-21T16:33:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/21\/reddit-briefly-down-for-users-worldwide-techcrunch\/"},"modified":"2025-04-21T16:33:55","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T16:33:55","slug":"reddit-briefly-down-for-users-worldwide-techcrunch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/21\/reddit-briefly-down-for-users-worldwide-techcrunch\/","title":{"rendered":"Reddit briefly down for users worldwide | TechCrunch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p id=\"speakable-summary\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Popular social network and forum site Reddit reported significant outages on Monday morning.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The connection errors <a href=\"https:\/\/downdetector.com\/status\/reddit\/?_gl=1*16eu2t*_up*MQ..*_ga*NTg3NTk0NDM4LjE3NDUyNTA1NDY.*_ga_0PZM58H213*MTc0NTI1MDU0Ni4xLjAuMTc0NTI1MDU0Ni4wLjAuMA..\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">started at around <\/a>11:20 a.m. ET, according to the website Downdetector, which collects anecdotal reports from impacted users globally. At its peak, more than 90,000 users logged an outage report with the downtime tracking website.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At 11:52 a.m. ET, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.redditstatus.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Reddit Status<\/a>, the company\u2019s website tracking its own outages, confirmed it was investigating \u201celevated errors\u201d across the website and app.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A few minutes later, the company said the issue was identified, and by 12:10 p.m. ET, the company implemented a fix and said it was \u201cmonitoring results.\u201d At 12:21 p.m. ET, Reddit Status showed that all systems were once again operational.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When reached for comment, a Reddit spokesperson said, \u201cWe were briefly unable to connect to one of our databases, which caused the outage. A fix was quickly deployed, and we are now up and running.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Reddit reported an \u201celevated errors\u201d issue three times in February, as well as a few weeks ago, according to its status page.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>This story is developing\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>This story was updated to reflect comment from Reddit. <\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2025\/04\/21\/reddit-briefly-down-for-users-worldwide\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Popular social network and forum site Reddit reported significant outages on Monday morning.\u00a0 The connection errors started at around 11:20 a.m. ET, according to the website Downdetector, which collects anecdotal reports from impacted users globally. At its peak, more than 90,000 users logged an outage report with the downtime tracking website.\u00a0 At 11:52 a.m. ET, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":163579,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-163578","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tech"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163578\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/163579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}