{"id":514194,"date":"2025-10-20T11:00:15","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T11:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/514194\/"},"modified":"2025-10-20T11:00:15","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T11:00:15","slug":"reddit-down-request-rate-limited-explained","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/514194\/","title":{"rendered":"Reddit down? Request rate limited explained"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the internet reels from a massive outage Monday morning, thousands of Reddit users are continuing to report problems with the platform.<\/p>\n<p>Over the last four hours, there has been a massive Google Trends spike as people look up a message they are receiving while using Reddit that informs them their request rate has been limited.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitterEmbed twitter-tweet\"><p>\n    <a class=\"text-gray-600\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/callmebrima\/status\/1980209293778661727\" title=\"(Opens in a new tab) (opens in a new window)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><br \/>\n        This Tweet is currently unavailable. It might be loading or has been removed.<br \/>\n    <\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Reddit&#8217;s own status page confirms they are investigating an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.redditstatus.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-ga-click=\"1\" data-ga-label=\"$text\" data-ga-item=\"text-link\" data-ga-module=\"content_body\" title=\"(opens in a new window)\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8220;elevated level of errors&#8221;<\/a> as of 6:24 a.m. ET.<\/p>\n<p>\n            Mashable Light Speed\n        <\/p>\n<p>The issues follow directly on the heels of a massive internet outage seemingly linked to an <a href=\"https:\/\/health.aws.amazon.com\/health\/status\" target=\"_blank\" data-ga-click=\"1\" data-ga-label=\"$text\" data-ga-item=\"text-link\" data-ga-module=\"content_body\" title=\"(opens in a new window)\" rel=\"noopener\">Amazon Web Services<\/a> outage. In the wake of the outage, users reported issues with dozens of sites across the internet, according to Downdetector.<\/p>\n<p>(Disclosure: <strong>Downdetector is owned by Ziff Davis<\/strong>, which also owns Mashable.)<\/p>\n<p>Reddit was impacted by issues around the same time, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.redditstatus.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-ga-click=\"1\" data-ga-label=\"$text\" data-ga-item=\"text-link\" data-ga-module=\"content_body\" title=\"(opens in a new window)\" rel=\"noopener\">reporting degraded performance<\/a> as it deals with issues in &#8220;Reddit infrastructure.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>This is a developing story. More details will be provided as they become available.<\/p>\n<p>                            <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As the internet reels from a massive outage Monday morning, thousands of Reddit users are continuing to report&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":514195,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3161],"tags":[3082,53,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-514194","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-internet","8":"tag-internet","9":"tag-technology","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115406151759370507","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514194","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=514194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514194\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/514195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=514194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=514194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=514194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}