Reddit outage on January 16, 2026
On January 16, 2026, Reddit had an incident recorded on Reddit's official status page, lasting about 3h 17m. Here's what happened, in the provider's own words — DownRNdoesn't invent causes or durations.
major
Increased error rates across the site
- Started
- 7:20 PM ET
- Resolved
- 10:37 PM ET
- Duration
- 3h 17m
- Status
- resolved
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