The next to last comment on the Reddit status page was posted at 5:43 pm EDT and stated, “Update – We’ve identified a fix which may take some time to implement, in the meantime ready your bananas (or eat them!).” And just minutes ago, Reddit added this to its status page at 7:18 pm EDT: “Update – We’ve implemented our fix and are slowly allowing things to ramp back up. We’re not yet out of the woods. How do you draw a banana? Asking for a friend.”
Out of nowhere, Reddit goes down
55% of the complaints against Reddit were related to the social media site’s iOS or Android app. 33% reported that they could not get the Reddit website to work. Interestingly, Reddit offers users the opportunity to see how operational the service has been over the last 30 days and it shows that during that period, Reddit’s desktop website has been working 99.49% of
the time. Over the same 30 days, Reddit’s mobile apps have been up 99.57% of the time.
Over the last 30 days, Reddit has been up and running close to 100% of the time
