{"id":2729,"date":"2025-07-17T12:14:13","date_gmt":"2025-07-17T12:14:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/2729\/"},"modified":"2025-07-17T12:14:13","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T12:14:13","slug":"reddit-investigate-as-downdetecter-shows-outage-for-150000-users-news-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/2729\/","title":{"rendered":"Reddit investigate as DownDetecter shows outage for 150,000 users | News UK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" width=\"646\" height=\"431\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/SEI_259201746-01bb.jpg\" class=\"article-image wp-image-23679855\" alt=\"CANADA - 2025\/05\/26: In this photo illustration, the Reddit logo is seen displayed on a smartphone screen. (Photo Illustration by Thomas Fuller\/SOPA Images\/LightRocket via Getty Images)\" decoding=\"sync\"\/><br \/>\n\t\tReddit has gone down for thousands of users (Pictures: 2025 SOPA Images)<\/p>\n<p>Social media giants <a data-ico=\"hyperlink-article\" href=\"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/tag\/reddit\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Reddit\u00a0<\/a>have said it was looking into \u2018elevated error rates\u2019, after Downdetector.com showed more than 150,000 users globally.<\/p>\n<p>In the <a data-ico=\"hyperlink-article\" data-track=\"inline-tag-auto-link_article\" href=\"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/tag\/us-news\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">US<\/a> alone, there were more than 133,948 people reporting issues with the platform, according to Downdetector, a website which tracks outages.<\/p>\n<p>At it\u2019s peak around 5pm in the UK nearly 17,000 Brits reported issues on the aggregator.<\/p>\n<p>Reddit had also\u00a0experienced\u00a0an outage last month which affected nearly 31,000 users.<\/p>\n<p>The San Francisco-based company has consistently ranked in the top 10 for most used websites in the world. Last year, Reddit reported having 73million daily users and more than 100,000 active communities.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\tSign up for all of the latest stories\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Start your day informed with Metro&#8217;s <a data-ico=\"hyperlink-article\" href=\"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/newsletters\/news-updates\/?signup-source=news-article\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">News Updates<\/a> newsletter or get <a data-ico=\"hyperlink-article\" href=\"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/newsletters\/breaking-news?ito=news-article&amp;?signup_source=news-article-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Breaking News<\/a> alerts the moment it happens. <\/p>\n<p>On the US Election Day last year, Reddit was looking into \u2018degraded performance\u2019 and resolved the issues after hours.<\/p>\n<p>Reddit went public in March, and in October reported it was profitable for the first time since becoming a publicly traded company.<\/p>\n<p class=\"metro-more-link\">Arrow<br \/>\nMORE: <a data-ico=\"hyperlink-article\" href=\"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2025\/07\/15\/virgin-media-customers-complained-total-blackout-23665604\/?ico=more_text_links\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Virgin Media down again after customers complained about \u2018total blackout\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"metro-more-link\">Arrow<br \/>\nMORE: <a data-ico=\"hyperlink-article\" href=\"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2025\/07\/15\/virgin-media-customers-complained-total-blackout-23665604\/?ico=more_text_links\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Virgin Media down again after customers complained about \u2018total blackout\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\tNews Updates<\/p>\n<p>Stay on top of the headlines with daily email updates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Reddit has gone down for thousands of users (Pictures: 2025 SOPA Images) Social media giants Reddit\u00a0have said it&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2730,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[49,48,244,3586,44,2522,61,3585,182],"class_list":{"0":"post-2729","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-internet","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-internet","11":"tag-internet-outage","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-reddit","14":"tag-technology","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-us"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2729\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}