Reddit experienced site-wide issues with subreddits
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Reddit experienced an outage on Monday, and while the site was experiencing issues, it would return an error page when you tried to access subreddits. I was able to access the front page during the outage, but clicking on a link to a subreddit took me to an error page.
Reddit said the site was “degraded” on its status page, though noted at 3:02PM ET that “issue has been identified and a fix is being implemented.” Reddit said at 5:45PM ET that the issue was resolved.
Down Detector indicated a rise in user-reported problems at around 2:30PM ET.
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