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| Reddit experiences major outage as 1000s of reports come flooding in from around the world | Reddit experiences major outage as 1000s of reports come flooding in from around the world |
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| Popular online news aggregator Reddit experienced a major outage Wednesday with thousands of users reporting issues around the world. | Popular online news aggregator Reddit experienced a major outage Wednesday with thousands of users reporting issues around the world. |
| Almost 10,000 reports have been made on crowdsourcing website monitor DownDetector.com with a roughly 50/50 split of reports indicating outages on the app and website. | Almost 10,000 reports have been made on crowdsourcing website monitor DownDetector.com with a roughly 50/50 split of reports indicating outages on the app and website. |
| The majority of the reports about the social media platform meets meme workshop have come from the Eastern seaboard of the US and Western Europe. | The majority of the reports about the social media platform meets meme workshop have come from the Eastern seaboard of the US and Western Europe. |
| Visitors to the site were met with a message reading: “Our CDN was unable to reach our servers”. Reddit confirmed they are aware of the issue and are investigating the cause. | Visitors to the site were met with a message reading: “Our CDN was unable to reach our servers”. Reddit confirmed they are aware of the issue and are investigating the cause. |
| People appeared to be suffering severe meme withdrawal in the short time since the outage began. “Life is weird without functioning Reddit, so empty I’m dying. I need them MEMES!” one fan joked on Twitter. | People appeared to be suffering severe meme withdrawal in the short time since the outage began. “Life is weird without functioning Reddit, so empty I’m dying. I need them MEMES!” one fan joked on Twitter. |
| After over an hour of problems Reddit said that it had identified the issue and a fix is being implemented. | |
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