Users have reported outages on multiple social media sites including Reddit, Bluesky and Venmo.
On the Reddit status website, the company indicates an “unresolved incident” taking place on November 20. The company confirmed later acknowledged the problem, responding to one X user saying “we’re working on it.”
Almost 50,000 Reddit users reported having a problem with the site, with visitors to the site being presented with the message: “Upstream connect error or disconnect/reset before headers. Reset reason: connection failure.”
The Reddit outage was fairly widespread, with reports from monitoring site Down Detector coming in from cities across the US including Detroit, New York, Tampa, San Francisco, Seattle, among others.
Elsewhere, Bluesky – which has seen a recent surge in users as it has emerged as a competitor to X – was also down, witha round 2,200 users reporting problems. The site listed “internal servers” as the cause of the issues.
The platform’s membership has reportedly soared by around 500 per cent since the day of the US election on November 5.
Payment and money sharing app Venmo users also reported issues.
The cause of the widespread outages, which began at around 3 p.m. ET on Wednesday, is currently unknown.
Source: independent.co.uk