Resolved · lasted 3 h

Reddit outage on October 7

Reports for Reddit jumped to 8,977 an hour and stayed high for 3 h.

Started: 7:00 PM; October 7, 2026 · UTC
Back to normal: 10:00 PM; 3 h later
Peak: 8,977/hr; 72× normal
Reddit’s incident: 57 min; Investigating elevated errors across reddit.com and native apps

Reports during the outage

5:00 PM11:50 PM UTC

Resolved7:58 – 8:55 PM · 57 min

Investigating elevated errors across reddit.com and native apps

Resolved · 8:55 PM
This incident has been resolved.
Monitoring · 8:27 PM
A fix has been implemented and we're continuing to monitor the situation.
Identified · 8:17 PM
Errors are returning to baseline and we're monitoring improvement. We'll continue to monitor the situation!
Investigating · 7:59 PM
We are continuing to investigate this issue.
Investigating · 7:58 PM
We're currently investigating errors across reddit.com and the apps. While this is ongoing, you may encounter errors while visiting community pages and other parts of the site.

Reddit posted its first update 59 min after reports started rising.

Live status, today’s reports and other past outages.