Reddit was down – Here's everything we know about issues with the site and app
The service is investigating the errors
If you had some issues accessing Reddit – either on the web or via the app on Android or iOS – earlier, you're not alone. First spotted by my colleagues in the UK, Reddit had a widespread outage on July 16 for about an hour.
“Oops” was appearing when trying to open the main page of the app and on a desktop, this “We encountered an error.” message was being displayed. Additionally, Down Detector, a service that tracks website outages in the UK and the US, saw massive spikes in reports, reaching over 130,000.
Reddit was quick to note the issue, posting at 11:52 AM ET that it was “investigating elevated site errors" on its status page and kept that updated very frequently during the outage. Ahead, you can read our live reporting of Reddit's July 16, 2025, outage.
Here's a look at Reddit's Down Detector page in the United States right now, currently at over 133,00 reported issues.
My colleague Hamish shared these shots of what the Reddit app on Android looks like right now in the UK. It appears that the main home page displays a "Wow, such empty" notice, and that subreddit pages are loading partially.
Reddit's now identified the cause of the issue and is working on a fix, and in pretty fast fashion as the update was posted to its status page at 12:06PM ET – shortly after the spikes of reported issues came.
There are some signs that Reddit might be recovering, making this a relatively quick blip of an outage. I'm able to load the site again on my computer, both within Google Chrome and Safari, with the homepage populating with trending posts and individual subreddits.
My colleague, Amelia Schwanke, TechRadar’s Senior Editor for Streaming and Home Entertainment, shared a screenshot of the mobile app still being down, but notes that the site is loading fine on desktop in the UK.
