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Reddit suffers massive outage with users worldwide struggling to use social site and app
Hundreds of thousands of Reddit users reported issues with the social media site today amid a major service outage.
Issues started at around 3.45pm Eastern Time on Wednesday, affecting people across the US, UK and Europe.
Users who visited the site's homepage this afternoon were met with a message from Reddit that said, 'Server error. Try again later.'
More than 150,000 people have logged problems on the tracking website Downdetector, which will likely be a vast undercount of the total users affected.
Reddit was down around 4pm Wednesday Eastern Time for users worldwide
A heat map shows where the most users were having difficulties accessing the site
Reddit said it was 'currently investigating' the problem, which is affecting desktop users and mobile web and app users.
It comes just weeks after the social media site suffered a global outage on August 13 which prevented people from accessing their accounts.
The issue was resolved in a matter of hours.
Earlier this year, in March, shares in Reddit jumped as much as 70 percent as the social media site made its hotly-anticipated stock market debut.
The 19-year-old company, which hosts thousands of niche online communities, priced its initial public offering (IPO) at $34 a share — a move that saw Reddit's stock market value soar to almost $9 billion by the end of its Wall Street debut.
Alongside its quirky content, Reddit is also famous for the 'meme stock' saga of 2021, when a group of retail investors on subreddit 'Wall Street Bets' collaborated to buy shares of highly shorted companies like GameStop and AMC.
In a nod to Redditors, the company reserved 8 percent of the shares from its IPO stock for eligible users and moderators, certain board members, and friends and family members of its employees and directors.
This cordial relationship with its user base and moderators, which frequently turns to Reddit's enthusiast communities for answers to their most pressing questions, was on full display amid the outage.
'Now how the hell am I supposed to Google things when Reddit is down?' one user joked on social media site X.