Reddit is back online after a brief outage

Image by Alex Castro / The Verge Reddit experienced a widespread outage that impacting the entire site and subreddits earlier today. Millions of Reddit users were met with a “Server error. Try again later” message in a red banner at the top of the site for around 45 minutes today. The same outage error was displayed on subreddits and individual posts, too.
The status page for Reddit initially indicated the site was experiencing “degraded performance” at 4:16PM ET, before