Reddit is back online after a brief outage<p>If you were having trouble viewing Reddit today, you weren't alone. Downdetector <a data-i13n="cpos:1;pos:1" href="
https://downdetector.com/status/reddit/">showed[/url] a spike in outages and problems at the site. Reddit <a data-i13n="cpos:2;pos:1" href="
https://www.redditstatus.com/">acknowledged[/url] the problem on Wednesday. At 12:38PM ET, it said the situation had been resolved.</p>
<p>Reddit told Engadget that an update was the culprit. "An update we made caused some instability," a company spokesperson said. "We reverted and are seeing Reddit ramp back up." As to what that update was, we don't yet know, but it was probably a standard tweak to the site that just had some bugs on board.</p>
<span id="end-legacy-contents"></span><p>If you tried to visit Reddit this morning, you likely saw a message reading, "Server error: We have encountered an error. Please try again later." The company's system status page showed a "partial outage" for the desktop web, mobile web and mobile apps.</p>
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<p>Meanwhile, Downdetector's status page (above) showed a sharp upward trend in problems starting at around 11:20 AM ET. The graph dropped again after Reddit implemented its fix.</p>This article originally appeared on Engadget at
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Reddit is back online after a brief outage
