It was not just for you, Reddit went dark for thousands of users across the world on Tuesday, adding to a string of recent tech troubles that have hit major platforms.
According to outage tracker Downdetector, more than 20,000 users in the United States and over 500 in India reported problems accessing Reddit. Many said they could not even log in or load posts properly. Data also showed that 49% of users faced problems on the website, 44% with the app, and 7% with server connections.
Reddit responded on the issue saying engineers had found the cause and were working on a fix. “The issue has been identified and a fix is being implemented,” the company said, later confirming that the problem had been resolved. On X, users shared memes and complaints about being unable to scroll through their favourite subreddits.
Recent cases of tech outages
Reddit outage comes close on the heels of several other major internet disruptions. Just a couple of weeks ago, Amazon Web Services (AWS) the cloud backbone for thousands of apps, suffered one of its worst global outages.
That breakdown, which began on October 20, 2025, lasted for nearly 15 hours, impacting over 1,000 companies worldwide.
Apps like Snapchat, Disney+, WhatsApp, Microsoft 365, Zoom, Coinbase, and even Amazon’s own Alexa assistant went offline. Banking apps, airlines, and even government websites, including the UK’s tax authority (HMRC), were affected.
The issue stemmed from a DNS failure at Amazon’s US-East-1 data center in Virginia, knocking out connections to its DynamoDB service and making a huge portion of the web temporarily unreachable.
Adding to the chaos, Microsoft’s Azure cloud network also went down last week, disrupting multiple services. It has been a rough few weeks for the internet and users are feeling it.
