write it down site says fix may take some time to implement Reddit was suffering an hours-long issue on Tuesday that made the popular discussion site inaccessible for many users and the company didn't have an Eda on when it will be resolved in an update at 2 43 PM Pacific Time reddit's status page said we've identified a fix which may take some time to implement in the meantime ready your bananas or eat them user reports of problems accessing reddit's website in apps spiked around noon PT on Tuesday topping more than 60 000 outage reports according to monitoring site down detector the Reddit status page at 12 18 PM Pacific Time posted investigating Reddit is currently offline we're working to identify the issue and subsequently said the problem stemmed from an internal systems issue according to Reddit there are more than one hundred thousand active communities from around the world across the site spanning numerous topics and interest areas last month Reddit revealed a data security incident in which a hacker used a sophisticated fishing campaign to access some internal documents and business information the company said it became aware of the phishing attack on February 5 and that info the attack accessed may have included limited Reddit code limited contact information for a small number of company contacts and employees current and former as well as limited Advertiser information according to Reddit no high-risk data was accessed such as credit card details company financial information account passwords campaign strategy or performance in December 2021 Reddit confidentially submitted a draft registration statement with the SEC for a proposed initial public offering the company has been valued at more than 10 billion dollars launched in 2005 Reddit was acquired by cone then asked the following year in 2011 cone then asked spun out the site while Advanced Publications parent of condensed retains a minority stake