Nigeria, April 22 -- Reddit users across the world experienced a sudden disruption in service on Monday, April 21, 2025.

20 a.m. ET, when many people noticed they couldn't load the website or app.

A large number of reports poured in on Downdetector, a platform that collects outage complaints from users.

At one point, more than 90,000 people reported that Reddit was not working.

Soon after the problem started, Reddit's system status page confirmed that there were issues affecting access.

The company began checking what was wrong and later discovered that it had trouble connecting to one of its databases.

This caused the temporary shutdown for many users.

By 12:10 p.m. ET, Reddit had taken steps to fix the problem and started checkin...