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Reddit seems to be recovering from some ‘major’ outages

A screenshot of a Reddit error message. Under an illustration of the Reddit mascot at a computer and a cat playing a cable, a message reads: “All of our servers are busy right now. Please try again in a minute. (Error code: 503)”
Screenshot by Jay Peters / The Verge

Reddit appears to recovering from some big issues that lasted for about an hour. While outages were happening, I couldn’t load any Reddit pages on my browsers where I’m logged into the site — usually, I ran into an error message, though I also hit a blank white screen. However, if I tried to visit the site while logged out, pages loaded fine. As I write this, I’m not having any troubles browsing Reddit.

Things weren’t just down for me. A few colleagues here at The Verge were having some troubles loading pages as well, and Downdetector showed a peak of around 30,000 user reports.

Reddit has identified a fix and is implementing it, according to a 5:34PM ET message on the company’s status site. The status site also says that there is a…

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Author: Jay Peters. [Source Link (*), The Verge – All Posts]

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