If you’re trying to access Reddit but can’t, it’s not just you. Reddit down reports are surfacing online this June 12, as all the subreddits and the platform is undergoing issues right now. Not only that, but there’s a platform-wide protest happening this day as well.
Reddit Down Status and “Private” Subreddits Issues Clarification This June 12:
Update 2: Issues are now resolved per Reddit.
Update: Reddit has acknowledged the downtime. Here’s what’s posted in the status page.
Based on our own testing, it seems both the desktop site and the mobile version of Reddit are having issues. Over on Twitter, the site’s account hasn’t updated since May 31. Ever-reliable site Downdetector has reported a massive spike of outage reports recently:
As for those seeing the “private” messages on certain subreddits (such as the one for the PS5 group below), it’s due to certain changes coming to the platform that will essentially kill any third-party Reddit apps. Multiple subreddits have gone private temporarily as a way of protest, as killing the third-party apps would invite spam and a number of other issues.
While some subreddits have said that they’re going dark for just today, June 12, some have not given an end date for their protest. We’ll keep you posted for if anything changes regarding this.
Same as always, we’ll be monitoring the situation and will provide an update once we know more. If you can login and use Reddit (be it desktop or mobile), leave a comment below and let us know where you’re connecting from.
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I always have trouble with Reddit, between log in attempts and oftentimes i can type a comment but once i hit submit my comment never shows up it literally just disappears.
How is someone contenteding that killing third part app / api access will invite spam.
Can someone walk me through the logic of that idea?
Many tools this include also help manage comments and auto filter out comments promoting spam linkage and such
Keep protesting until they relent! Having it for only a few days isn’t a protest, it’s a TANTRUM! And like all tantrums, Reddit knows they hust have to wait for you all to come crawling back to them.