Reddit reportedly experienced some outages

is a news editor covering technology, gaming, and more. He joined The Verge in 2019 after nearly two years at Techmeme. Reddit experienced “international outages,” NetBlocks, a global internet monitor, said in a post Thursday evening, though it appears the outages have resolved. In that post, the organization said that the incident was “not related to country-level internet disruptions or filtering.” There was also a big spike of outage reports on Downdetector, with a peak of around 56,000 reports at 7:27PM ET, but the volume of reports appears to have dropped off considerably. On Thursday evening, I saw many posts on X, Threads, and Bluesky indicating that Reddit was down for them, too. But that being said, I didn’t run into any problems with Reddit myself, so I can’t describe my own experiences of what might have been going on. The platform worked fine when I browsed it from my logged-in account that uses Old Reddit, in an incognito window, and on my mobile browser on my iPhone. ... Read full article.