Reddit back up: Site resolves 'major outage' after nearly 6 hours

Social media level Reddit is backmost online aft it identified and implemented a hole for a "major outage" that made browsing intolerable for desktop and mobile users for astir six hours.

The level archetypal noted it was offline astatine 7:18 p.m. UTC, according to Reddit Status, and said it was moving to place the issue.

Screenshot of the r/Cryptocurrency subreddit during the outage. Source: Reddit

About 30 minutes aboriginal astatine 7:56 p.m. UTC, it said it had identified an interior systems contented and is moving to find a fix, uncovering a confirmed hole astir 2 hours later, stating:

"We’ve identified a hole which whitethorn instrumentality immoderate clip to implement, successful the meantime acceptable your bananas  (or devour them!)."

In an update 4 hours aft its archetypal announcement, Reddit said it had "implemented our fix" and was "slowly allowing things to ramp backmost up" and aboriginal confirmed "things are backmost successful order" aft a astir six-hour outage.

Users who visited the website erstwhile it was offline saw blank boxes successful immoderate places wherever threads and comments would usually beryllium shown. As of penning the website pages present amusement contented and it appears to beryllium functioning normally.

Reddit is simply a fashionable level for cryptocurrency investors and enthusiasts, with immoderate of the much fashionable subreddits including r/CryptoCurrency, r/Bitcoin and r/CryptoMarkets.

According to APE Wisdom, the apical trending cryptocurrencies connected Reddit (by the fig of mentions) successful the past 24 hours see Bitcoin (BTC), Ethereum (ETH) and USD Coin (USDC).