Is Reddit down? Why you are seeing no healthy upstream error

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Sam Haysom
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Reddit is off to a rocky start this week.

On Monday morning reported outtages started to spike on Downdetector.com, with 75 percent of people flagging an issue with Reddit's website.

A chart shows a spike at around 6am.
Credit: Downdetector.com

When Mashable attempted to access reddit.com from the UK, EU and Australia, we were greeted with a message saying "no healthy upstream". A thread on the r/techsupport subreddit shows a number of users reported the same issue.


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Per Downdetector.com, outtages appeared to spike around 1am BST, peaking at over 16,000 reports.

Reddit hasn't commented on the outage at the time of writing. Mashable has reached out for comment and we will update this story if we get a response.

(Full disclosure: Downdetector is owned by Mashable's parent company, ZiffDavis.)

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Sam Haysom

Sam Haysom is the Deputy UK Editor for Mashable. He covers entertainment and online culture, and writes horror fiction in his spare time.

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