'I Need My Creepy Stories to Read': Users Outraged as Reddit Suffers Outages Throughout US

Reddit is a news and entertainment website, where users can post content in a form of a story, a picture or a link, with other users ranking posts with "ups" and "downs" to determine its position on the pages of the site.

Reddit has been suffering a massive outage throughout the United States, according to DownDetector, prompting outraged users to flock to Twitter to complain about issues with the website.

According to DownDetector, users have been experiencing problems with accessing Reddit since 7:01 PM EDT (23:01 GMT).

"Dammit Reddit, I need my creepy stories to read", one user tweeted.

Reddit decided to be down when I decided that I was gonna pay someone to write an essay for me. That’s god telling me to just do it myself 😭

— Amir (@Mquael_) September 24, 2020

Is Reddit down? It sent me a push notification for an interesting post and now it won’t load for me. 😭 Tease.

— Drank Sinatra (@sophielenie) September 24, 2020

reddit is down omg rip to another coping mechanism for me

— 🚨 bloomthisway⁹¹¹ (@bloomthisway) September 24, 2020

Reddit is down so naturally I started looking for a Reddit related subreddit to discuss.

— Zach Cronin-Hurley (@zCroninHurley) September 24, 2020

Reddit is a social news entertainment website which allows users to post and rank content.