Reddit has recovered from its previous outage

In what’s becoming all too common of a situation, Reddit was down for users across the globe throughout Wednesday afternoon. Most visitors were met with one of several various error messages, ranging from “Try again later” requests to full black pages alerting users to a “upstream connect error.”

Reddit updated its own status page at 3:38 PM ET, referring to degraded performance for the website. This warning arrived nearly an hour after reports to services like Down Detector, which received over 40,000 reports of issues within the hour before Reddit updated its incident page. The full error being delivered to most visitors — at least, judging by my own experience and by scrolling through social media — is below.

According to Reddit’s status page, this “degraded performance” affected the website on both desktop and mobile, as well as its native mobile apps. A similar bug was reported late in the evening on November 5th, just over two weeks ago; that incident wasn’t marked as resolved until 8 AM ET the next day. This also marked the fourth performance issue reported by Reddit since September 19th.

All told, Reddit was down for around four hours in total this afternoon before finally recovering. According to Reddit’s own incident tracker, the company implemented a fix at around 7:45 PM ET following this outage. According to a statement shared with The Verge, the website’s downtime originated with a bug in a recent update.