The social media site Reddit was offline for about an hour Thursday afternoon. Here's why. Reddit experienced an outage that told visitors to “try again later” while the site is down. Reddit said a back-end problem was to blame. Reddit said on Thursday it has fixed an issue that had left tens of thousands of users across the globe without access to the social media platform. What to Do if Reddit Isn't Down · Restart your device: Restarting your smartphone can sometimes help fix errors that you encounter when using Reddit. Reddit briefly went down for many users around the world today, with the widespread outage having affected both the website and the iPhone app. At the moment, Reddit is up and running, but some previous problems affected its performance. The Reddit Status page confirms that the team has resolved the issue. Why is Reddit down? Reddit did not give a timeline for when the outage would be fixed. If you were having trouble connecting to Reddit this morning, you weren't not alone. On Thursday morning, the site appeared to be down for several users. THOUSANDS of Reddit users had trouble with the platform in the US and UK. Over 67,000 Redditors in the US reported issues with the site that left them unable to access their accounts or post content. The outage affected users attempting to access Reddit on both desktop and mobile devices.