
Same as always, we’ll be monitoring the situation and will provide an update once we know more. We’ll keep you posted for if anything changes regarding this. While some subreddits have said that they’re going dark for just today, June 12, some have not given an end date for their protest. Multiple subreddits have gone private temporarily as a way of protest, as killing the third-party apps would invite spam and a number of other issues. Ever-reliable site Downdetector has reported a massive spike of outage reports recently:Īs for those seeing the “private” messages on certain subreddits (such as the one for the PS5 group below), it’s due to certain changes coming to the platform that will essentially kill any third-party Reddit apps. Over on Twitter, the site’s account hasn’t updated since May 31.

We’re aware of problems loading content and are working to resolve the issues as quickly as possible.īased on our own testing, it seems both the desktop site and the mobile version of Reddit are having issues.
