attention redditors a massive outage has just knocked out your favorite site this afternoon around 4:10 p.m. Reddit experienced a major outage cutting off access to both its website and app the outage hit users especially hard in the UK and US racking up over 150,000 complaints on down detector frustrated users flocked to other social media platforms like X formerly known as Twitter to vent and check if others were also affected Reddit quickly acknowledged the issue on Twitter assuring users that they're working on a fix meanwhile visitors to reddit's homepage were met with an error message apologizing for the inconvenience initially Reddit described the situation as degraded performance which didn't sit well with users facing a complete service blackout as of now there's no ETA on when services will be fully restored stay tuned for updates and let's hope Reddit gets back online soon this is your quick news update on reddit's global out thanks for watching and don't forget to like And subscribe for more breaking news