Reddit down as thousands of users get error 503 message

Site is ‘beginning to recover’ after a major outage

Wednesday 24 February 2021 21:53 GMT

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The self-described ‘front page of the Internet’ was down for tends of thousands of users worldwide on Wednesday.

Anyone attempting to access the news and entertainment site was greeted with a ‘503’ error message during the outage at about 1pm California time (9pm UK time).

The site experienced ”issues on web and mobile clients,” it tweeted in response to a flood of complaints on social media.

“We’ve identified the underlying issue and systems are beginning to recover,” it said in a later update.

It was not immediately clear what caused the outage.

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