Reddit outage on 2026-05-18

Investigating elevated site errors and issues accessing media

Severity

Degraded

Duration

3h 25m

Started

2026-05-18 17:39 UTC

ended 2026-05-18 21:04 UTC

Where this came from

Reported by Reddit This record comes from Reddit's own status page, so the wording and the timings are theirs rather than ours.

24 recorded outages for Reddit run an hour or longer.

Earlier

2026-05-08

AWS availability causing degradation in user experiences for various services

Later

2026-07-25

Degraded performance across the site