Users have reported outages on multiple social media sites including Reddit, Bluesky and Venmo.
On the Reddit status website, the company indicates an “unresolved incident” taking place on November 20. The company later acknowledged the problem, responding to one X user saying, “we’re working on it.”
Almost 50,000 Reddit users reported having a problem with the site, with visitors to the site being presented with the message: “Upstream connect error or disconnect/reset before headers. Reset reason: connection failure.”
Yes. We're working on it. https://t.co/8MZVlusmD7
— Reddit, Inc. (@Reddit) November 20, 2024
The Reddit outage was fairly widespread, with reports from monitoring site Down Detector coming in from cities across the US including Detroit, New York, Tampa, San Francisco, Seattle and others.
According to Reddit the issue affected reddit.com on desktop web, mobile web, native mobile apps, comment processing and spam processing.
Elsewhere, Bluesky – which has seen a recent surge in users as it has emerged as a competitor to X – was also down, with roughly 2,200 users reporting problems. The site listed “internal servers” as the cause of the issues.
Investigating: We are currently investigating this issue. https://t.co/PLSwLrcuYd
— Reddit Status (@redditstatus) November 20, 2024
The platform’s membership has reportedly soared by around 500 percent since the day of the US election on November 5.
Around 5,000 users on payment and money-sharing app Venmo also reported issues.
The cause of the widespread outages, which began at around 3 p.m. ET Wednesday, is currently unknown.
