Thousands of users in the United States raised their complaints on social media and other platforms regarding an issue with Reddit, which has faced a massive outage in the country as users said comments were not loading, according to DownDetector, a platform that tracks outages.
Most of the users reported problems with the comment section of Reddit as they said that comments were not loading. Till now, more than 20,000 people have reported the outage in Reddit, as per DownDetector.
Investigating: We are currently investigating elevated errors with comments and are actively working on a fix. https://t.co/siLzY9h9LD
— Reddit Status (@redditstatus) August 25, 2025
The data on DownDetector showed 20,169 users reported issues with Reddit in the US, and out of those 79% reported the problem in Reddit’s app, 10% reported the issue with Reddit’s website while 11% reported server connection issue.
The DownDetector website also reported issues with Reddit in the United Kingdom, where more than 2,500 users have experienced issues and reported the outage at midnight on Tuesday.
The first report of an issue with Reddit came at around 11:30pm on Monday in the UK and later on users started sharing their outage information on social media. The DownDetector data shows 75% people have reported issues with Reddit on their respective app, while only 10% reported it on the website.
After reports of a massive outage in the US and the UK, Reddit said “We are currently investigating elevated errors with comments and actively working on a fix,” Reuters reported.
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