Reddit incident

Investigating elevated errors and issues loading comments

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Reddit experienced a notice incident on May 20, 2026 affecting Desktop Web and Mobile Web and 1 more component, lasting 58m. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.

Started
May 20, 2026, 08:58 PM UTC
Resolved
May 20, 2026, 09:57 PM UTC
Duration
58m
Detected by Pingoru
May 20, 2026, 08:58 PM UTC

Affected components

Desktop WebMobile WebNative Mobile AppsComment Processing

Update timeline

  1. investigating May 20, 2026, 08:58 PM UTC

    We're currently investigating this issue. While this is ongoing, you may have trouble loading comment threads on www.reddit.com, and the native apps

  2. investigating May 20, 2026, 08:58 PM UTC

    We are continuing to investigate this issue.

  3. identified May 20, 2026, 09:22 PM UTC

    We've identified the issue and you should now start to see comments load properly again. We're still monitoring the situation!

  4. monitoring May 20, 2026, 09:37 PM UTC

    Most errors have cleared up and comments should be appearing as expected. We're continuing to monitor the situation.

  5. resolved May 20, 2026, 09:57 PM UTC

    This issue is now resolved. Errors have subsided and we're seeing consistent loading across comments.