On April 21, 2025, Reddit experienced significant outages affecting users worldwide, with over 90,000 reports logged on Downdetector. Connection errors began around 11:20 a.m. ET, prompting the company to investigate 'elevated errors.' By 12:10 p.m. ET, Reddit implemented a fix and started monitoring the situation. By 12:21 p.m. ET, all systems were reported operational again. The cause of the outage remains unclear as Reddit has not commented on it yet. Similar issues were reported in February, raising concerns among users.