Reddit outage: site experienced widespread technical problems for about an hour


According to the company, the site had more than 52 million daily active users in the fourth quarter of 2020. — AFP Relaxnews

LOS ANGELES: Reddit, the popular Internet discussion site, encountered broad technical issues on May 4, as thousands of users worldwide reported problems accessing pages for about an hour.

Problem reports for Reddit began to spike just before 2pm ET, according to uptime-tracking service DownDetector.com. More than 40,000 users in the US alone had submitted error reports to DownDetector. Users in other countries, including Canada, the UK, Australia, Germany, Sweden and Japan, also were reporting technical problems. By 3pm ET, user problem reports had mostly subsided.

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