Reddit down: Site not working as users see 'Ow!' message
Reddit has gone down, leaving users unable to access the site.
Instead, visitors saw a message reading “Ow!” and indicating that the company’s “CDN was unable to reach our servers”.
A CDN, or content delivery network, is the system of servers and data centres that serve up a website’s content to its users.
The same page directed users to Reddit’s official status page, which claimed that all systems were operational.
Tracking website Down Detector did however show a surge in the number of users reporting problems.
Many of those issues were reported in the US and UK, the site showed, though that may simply be a consequence of the location of Reddit’s users.
There appeared to be no easy fix for the problems. The website refused to load whether or not a user was signed in, and when accessing both the homepage and specific Reddit pages.
Accessing the service through its app did however appear to work as usual.
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