Reddit is back up after hours of service disruption
UPDATE: July 11, 2019, 11:15 a.m. EDT Service to reddit.com has been restored. The original story follows below.
Uh-oh: Reddit is down. Stay calm, don't panic. There are still plenty are of places on the internet to get adorb cat pics.
The internet's "front page" has been having issues since 3:54 a.m. ET, according to Down Detector (which is owned by Mashable’s parent company, Ziff Davis), and has not been accessible on the web.
Visitors loading Reddit.com were greeted with different error messages. We got this one:
Other visitors are seeing an error message with the Reddit mascot, Snoo:
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The official Reddit app for iOS and third-party apps such as Apollo appear to be working properly at the time of this writing.
The outage seems to be affecting areas within Toronto, New York City, and London the most according to Down Detector:
We've reached out to Reddit on the site disruption and will update this story if we receive a response.
Naturally, Reddit users are freaking out over the outage:
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Dude...just relax! Enjoy the freedom! Reddit going down isn't the end of the world.
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What are we all supposed to do at work if we can't waste time browsing subreddits?
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Of course, this isn't the first time Reddit has been down:
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This Twitter user makes a good point:
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Raymond Wong is Mashable's Senior Tech Correspondent. He reviews gadgets and tech toys and analyzes the tech industry. Raymond's also a bit of a camera geek, gamer, and fine chocolate lover. Before arriving at Mashable, he was the Deputy Editor of NBC Universal's tech publication DVICE. His writing has appeared on G4TV, BGR, Yahoo and Ubergizmo, to name a few. You can follow Raymond on Twitter @raywongy or Instagram @sourlemons.