Reddit is back online after a brief outage

If you were having trouble viewing Reddit today, you weren’t alone. Downdetector showed a spike in outages and problems at the site. Reddit acknowledged the problem on Wednesday. At 12:38PM ET, it said the situation had been resolved.

Reddit told Tech Reader 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.

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.

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.