{"id":38983,"date":"2025-04-21T18:26:10","date_gmt":"2025-04-21T18:26:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/38983\/"},"modified":"2025-04-21T18:26:10","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T18:26:10","slug":"reddit-goes-down-social-media-site-goes-dark-around-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/38983\/","title":{"rendered":"Reddit goes DOWN: Social media site goes dark around the world"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"author-section byline-plain\">By <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/profile-687\/bethan-sexton.html\" class=\"author\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">BETHAN SEXTON FOR DAILYMAIL.COM<\/a> <\/p>\n<p class=\"byline-section\"> Published:  12:20 EDT, 21 April 2025   |  Updated:  13:41 EDT, 21 April 2025   <\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Online forum Reddit <a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sciencetech\/article-7238269\/Now-Twitter-Site-crashes-hours-Reddit-amid-weeks-social-media-outages.html\" class=\"class\" rel=\"noopener\">went down on Monday for tens of thousands of users<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">On its status page, Reddit <a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sciencetech\/article-7237241\/Reddit-latest-victim-rash-outages-previously-affected-Facebook-Google-Instagram.html\" rel=\"noopener\">said it was investigating elevated errors across its website and the app.<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Over 112,400 users reported that the platform was down at 11.39 a.m. ET, according to Downdetector, which tracks outages by collating status reports from various sources.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Most people were reporting issues with the app, but problems were also recorded on its website.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\"><a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sciencetech\/reddit\/index.html\" id=\"mol-da135f70-1ed7-11f0-a3be-c183ae88dda1\" rel=\"noopener\">Reddit<\/a> said the issue was caused by a connectivity failure to one of its databases.<\/p>\n<p>   <img decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-8c2fe83e4df6837b\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/97521703-14632611-image-a-12_1745253046390.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\" alt=\"Online forum Reddit went down on Monday for thousands of users across the world.\" class=\"blkBorder img-share\" style=\"max-width:100%\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>   <\/p>\n<p class=\"imageCaption\">Online forum Reddit went down on Monday for thousands of users across the world.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Reddit describes itself as, &#8216;the heart of the internet&#8217;. The social media platform sees users post in &#8216;subreddit&#8217; threads to discuss issues and topics.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Users then upvote or down vote content, helping the most valuable or popular responses rise to the top.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">The site has become increasingly popular as a means of tracking the latest developments with breaking news.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">And its eagle-eyed users are famed for spotting tiny details in stories &#8211; or offbeat incidents &#8211; which end up becoming viral news.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">&#8216;We were briefly unable to connect to one of our databases, which caused the outage,&#8217; a spokesman said. &#8216;A fix was quickly deployed, and we are now up and running.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">This is a developing story, check back for updates.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>                    Share or comment on this article:<br \/>\n                        Reddit goes DOWN: Social media site goes dark around the world<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By BETHAN SEXTON FOR DAILYMAIL.COM Published: 12:20 EDT, 21 April 2025 | Updated: 13:41 EDT, 21 April 2025&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":38984,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[51,92,12,2511,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-38983","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-dailymail","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-reddit","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114377365058845322","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38983\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}