Reddit down: Site not working amid major server outage

A sign hangs on the door of an office at Reddit headquarters in San Francisco, California April 15, 2014 (REUTERS/Robert Galbraith)

Reddit went down amid a major server outage.

The site refused to load and instead showing users only its famous alien trapped under a pile of upvotees.

"Our CDN was unable to reach our servers," an explanation reads, which also sends users out to a status page.

That page indicated that Reddit is aware of the issue and is in the process of implementing a fix.

Shortly before, an update had been posted that indicated the site was "experiencing a high volume of errors when accessing reddit.com" and that the company was investigating.

It then said it was "continuing to investigate the issue".

The last post indicated that the problem had been identified and a fix would be rolled out.