The well-known social networking platform, Reddit went down hard earlier today, preventing users from accessing the social media platform for about an hour. “Oops, something went wrong, please try again later” was the error message that appeared to users when they attempted to use the platform.
The company has deployed a fix and the platform is up and running again, it said in an update on its status page.
At its height, the outage impacted around 70,000 customers in the US, according to Downdetector.com, a website that analyses outages by compiling status updates from various sources, including users. The outage started at 12:30 p.m. ET.
The website showed, Reddit users in other countries including the UK and India were also impacted.
Reddit posted a message on its status page in response to the widespread issue, citing a backend issue as the cause. The company assured users that they had identified the issue and were actively working to resolve it. This event comes after another problem that was reported earlier in the day and that Reddit says was fixed at about 9:50 PM IST.
In response, Reddit said, We have fixed the issue that left tens of thousands of users across the globe without access to the social media platform for more than half an hour. According to the company, they have deployed a fix and the platform is back up and running.
