Reddit said it had fixed a problem with its website on Thursday, after users reported having issues accessing the community-focused message board site for the second time in two days.
There were more than 72,000 reports of problems from users on the website Downdetector at 10:16 a.m. on Thursday. Reddit acknowledged that there was a problem with its website and about an hour later said it was implementing repairs.
“We have fixed the problem and have returned to normal operation,” the company said at 11:19 a.m. Eastern time.
A spokesman for Reddit, Tim Rathschmidt, said that an update had caused some instability on Thursday.
“We reverted and are seeing Reddit ramp back up,” he said. “It was not related to yesterday’s outage.”
The brief outage on Thursday came a day after another outage on Wednesday.
After users reported having trouble with Reddit to Downdetector around 3 p.m. on Wednesday, the site posted an update to its social media accounts at 7:35 p.m. that evening that said the company had fixed the website and were “monitoring the results.”
A spokesman for Reddit said that the outage on Wednesday had been caused by a bug in a recent update.
Reddit, which said earlier this year that it had 73 million daily users and more than 100,000 active communities, reported on Nov. 5 that it was investigating a “degraded performance” on its website. The company quickly identified the issue but took hours to resolve it, according to Reddit’s incident report.
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