Reddit down: Social media platform ‘suffers huge outage' with thousands of users reporting issues
RED ALERT Reddit down: Social media platform 'suffers huge outage' with thousands of users reporting issues
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POPULAR forum site Reddit is down, with tens of thousands of users reporting issues.
Reports of issues with the site began to be logged at around 4.30pm today.
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Popular social media site Reddit is currently facing an outage
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By 5pm nearly 25,000 reports had been logged by users.
Most users have reported issues with the app.
Of the reported issues, 62 per cent are with the app, 30 per cent are with the website, and eight per cent are with server connection according to DownDetector.
As of 5pm a number of users were receiving the error message "there is no content to display" when they tried to load subreddits.
Others have reported that the home screen won't load.
Overall, it seems to have left users unable to use the social media site, as they cannot access posts.
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