Reddit outage on 7 October 2026
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“Investigating elevated errors across reddit.com and native apps”
Reddit had a major outage on 7 October from 20:00 to 20:56 UTC, about 56 minutes, with errors across reddit.com and the native apps, including on community pages. Reddit's status page opened the incident at 19:58, reported errors returning to baseline by 20:17, and marked it resolved at 20:55. 20 Minutes also had a major outage at the same time, starting at 20:37.
Reddit’s own incident page ↗- When
- 20:00–20:56 UTC
- How long
- 56 min
- Incident open on its page
- 19:58–20:55 UTC
- Reddit, 30 days before
- No other outages
At the same time
Started in the hour before or during it
And 75 lesser-known services. Problems at the same time are a clue, never proof that one caused another.
Timeline
Times in UTC
- Investigating
- Cause identified
- Fix in place, monitoring
- Resolved
Where this comes from
Stackpulse reads Reddit’s official status page at www.redditstatus.com every minute. The times above are when it reported the problem; the summary is written from its updates and checked against them.
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