Is Reddit down? The Tuesday Reddit outage, explained

What happened to Reddit on Tuesday, Jan. 13? Thousands of users reported errors accessing the popular website.

Jan 14, 2026 0 0

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Is Reddit down?

The website is operating normally as of this writing, but thousands of Reddit users were asking this question on Tuesday, Jan. 13, when the popular online discussion platform appeared to suffer a brief outage. According to Downdetector, the problems started around 11:33 a.m. ET, with tens of thousands of Downdetector users reporting problems accessing the Reddit website and app. (Disclosure: Mashable and Downdetector are both owned by Ziff Davis.)

screenshot showing reddit error reports on a graph at the website downdetector

Reddit's status had returned to normal at Downdetector by 12:18 p.m. ET. Credit: Downdetector

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At the peak of the outage, Downdetector received 89,943 user error reports.

"Reddit is currently experiencing a significant internal outage causing widespread service disruptions," reads a Downdetector summary (emphasis in original). "The impact is categorized as Very High, primarily affecting mobile app access (55%) and website connectivity (39%)."

Again, as of this writing, Reddit's website and app appear to be fully operational.

Mashable reached out to Reddit for more information, and we'll update this story if we receive a response.

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