Reddit's emergency shutdown just freaked everyone out
 

Reddit's emergency shutdown just freaked everyone out
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Reddit is coming back online after an outage that lasted more than an hour.*

The issues began around 3:26 p.m. PT, according to the site's status page, following "a slight issue with a routine software upgrade."

Though the company promised to be back online "momentarily," it wasn't until more than an hour later — at 4:57 p.m. PT — when they updated to say "bringing the site back slowly."*

While it was down, users who tried to visit the site were greeted with a message saying "Reddit is down for emergency maintenance." Other users saw error pages.*

Unsurprisingly, Redditors did **t take the roughly 90-minute downtime well. Read more...

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