Just as thousands of Reddit communities went dark to protest the company’s controversial new policy that will put third-party apps out of business, the website itself has gone down. Reddit confirmed to TechCrunch a planned protest against its new policy has caused the outage. According to user reports, Reddit.com first began experiencing problems around 10:25 AM EDT.
Reddit’s Status page initially showed “all systems operational,” including its website, even as reports began flooding in indicating that the Reddit.com homepage won’t load. Soon after, the status page was updated to reflect the outage.
When you try to load the site, the main feed displays the message “Something went wrong. Just don’t panic,” and a pop-up says “Sorry, we couldn’t load posts for this page.” Content isn’t loading in the official mobile app, either.
According to Reddit’s Status, the company is aware of the problem loading content and is working …
