Reddit down for millions of Australians as outage sparks mass outrage : ‘What is going on?’

Millions of Aussies are fuming after Reddit was hit by an outage leaving social media users unable to access the popular online platform. 

Online network insights website Downdetector issued an alert on Thursday morning to indicate people have experienced issues accessing the app. 

‘User reports indicate problems at Reddit,’ the alert read. 

Almost 1,800 outages were reported around 9.30am and social media users have been met with an error message when they try and log in. 

‘Our CDN was unable to reach our servers,’ the message reads. 

The disruption angered Aussies with many taking to social media platform X to vent their frustration. 

‘Reddit is down and I’m here for the updoots [sic],’ one wrote.  

‘Reddit s**t the bed again,’ another wrote. 

‘Has Reddit crashed?’ a third asked. 

More than 500million people use Reddit across the world and just over 40 per cent of users are aged between 18 to 29, according to figures by trends website Exploding Topics. 

The app was first launched in 2005 and will soon celebrate its 20th anniversary.

The latest outage comes after Aussies were unable to log on to Ticketek on Tuesday to book tickets to live events. 

Customers came across a message informing them that officials were conducting maintenance work on the site.

‘The Ticketek website is currently undergoing maintenance. We apologise that the update is taking longer than anticipated,’ the message indicated. 

The outage is understood to have started on Sunday night. 

Customers were warned they would experience disruptions in an effort to book their tickets to concerts and other live events. 

Dozens of people took to social media to express their anger as they scrambled to book their tickets. 

‘Yikes is anyone else stressing about Ticketek being down? I can’t access my tickets,’ one complained on X.

‘Ticketek is under maintenance and I can’t access my tickets. Am I cooked?’ another person wrote.