Second outcome in 24 hours

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Reddit struggled with a second day of usage issues, with tens of thousands of users reporting a Reddit outage Thursday morning, after the company acknowledged that a bug in a recent update caused an outage Wednesday night.

Key facts

Users began reporting Reddit outages just before 10 EST, according to Down detector.

More than 76,000 users logged reports on Down Detector on Thursday morning, with about half reporting problems with the app, while the other half reported problems with the website.

Update: Just before 11 EST Reddit said in a post on X it is “currently investigating an issue with our site,” and Reddit spokesman Tim Rathschmidt told Forbes that an update it made “caused some instability,” but said the site is back up.

Key background

Reddit faced a similar outage on Wednesday night, which the company acknowledged in a post on X just after 3:30pm EST. The firm posted four hours later that it had implemented a fix and would monitor the results, confirming around 23 that the problem was solved. Outage reports on Down Detector peaked just before 3:30 PM EST, with more than 47,000 users reporting server issues. Reddit addressed the cause of the outage in a memethat modifies a widely used meme of a woman yelling at a cat into an image of the woman yelling at the Reddit mascot. “Reddit is down!” The woman says, as the Reddit mascot responds: “There was a bug in a recent update we did, but a fix is ​​in place and we’re ramping up again.” The company added another post: “sorry sorry sorry.”

Further reading

Reddit says it has resolved the outage (New York Times)