Reddit has been down for hours

Reddit has been down for hours. Reddit has been down since 12:18 pm PDT.

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Reddit's status page and anyone else who tried to load the platform encountered problems.

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According to experts, social media platform Reddit is facing an outage, which is affecting its website and app.

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The company talked about an internal system issue and a fix but it may take time.

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According to the company, the fix was identified around 2:43 p.m. PDT.

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A Reddit spokesperson has not yet shared details with TechCrunch about what caused the outage or how long it will take to fix.

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There have been over 60,000 reports of problems with Reddit on DownDetector.

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Several TechCrunch reporters appeared to confirm problems loading Reddit.

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