Summary

  • Reddit experienced more problems on 21 February following issues reported yesterday, with users reporting issues accessing the site on certain browsers and logging in.
  • Reddit’s status page admitted to an intermittent problem and said it was investigating the issue.
  • A fix was implemented about two hours later, though Downdetector still showed a high volume of outage reports.
  • This incident followed problems yesterday that led to an “international outage”, according to NetBlocks, although some users reported that the site was still usable for them.
  • The site is vulnerable to these sorts of problems because it is built on a decentralised system, which means any issues with a single data centre can lead to problems for users across the globe.

By Jay Peters

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