Reddit outage, 17 January 2026

Increased error rates across the site

Started
Resolved
17 Jan 2026, 03:37 UTC (after 3 h 17 min)
Impact
Major
Affected
Desktop Web, Mobile Web, Native Mobile Apps, Comment Processing

Last update from Reddit

Everything is now resolved.

17 Jan 2026, 03:37 UTC

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