Investigating elevated errors and issues loading comments

What to do

• Check whether you use Reddit Desktop Web, Mobile Web, Native Mobile Apps, Comment Processing. Check your stack

  Paste a package.json, lockfile, Terraform or a list of domains at down.guide/stack to see every provider you depend on.

• Confirm your retries, queues and scheduled jobs caught up after the 59m it lasted.

  Anything that failed between 2026-05-20 20:58 UTC and 2026-05-20 21:57 UTC may need a replay.

• Subscribe to Reddit's feed to hear about the next one first. RSS feed

  https://down.guide/feed?provider=reddit works in Slack (/feed subscribe), Discord feed bots and any RSS reader.

Updates from Reddit 5

1. investigatingMay 20, 2026, 8:58 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

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2. investigatingMay 20, 2026, 8:58 PM UTC

   We are continuing to investigate this issue.

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3. identifiedMay 20, 2026, 9:22 PM UTC

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

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4. monitoringMay 20, 2026, 9:37 PM UTC

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

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5. resolvedMay 20, 2026, 9:57 PM UTC

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

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Corrections

None so far.

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