Reddit is down
No, it is not your imagination: Reddit(opens in new tab), the «front page of the internet,» is down.
I noticed the problem while researching (ie., looking at memes) for a separate story about The Last of Us, which you'll hopefully be reading fairly shortly. In the midst of that, the site very suddenly stopped loading: I wasn't getting any errors, just a blank page.
After a few frustrated reloads, I popped over to redditstatus.com(opens in new tab), which indicates that a «major outage» is currently underway. It's specifically affecting the desktop and mobile versions of the site, with mobile apps showing a less severe «partial outage,» which might mean you can get some, but not all, pages to load. Downdetector(opens in new tab) likewise indicates a major problem of some sort, with close to 60,000 users reporting a problem.
At 12:56 pm PT, Reddit said it had «identified an internal systems issue» and is now working on a fix. We'll keep an eye on things and update when it's back online, hopefully with some information about what went wrong.
Investigating: Reddit is currently offline. We're working to identify the issue. https://t.co/xRMUQ3koaVMarch 14, 2023
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