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Reddit is currently experiencing a big outage affecting its websites and apps, according to the company’s status page. I’m consistently seeing an error message when trying to load Reddit on my Chrome browser.
“We’ve identified an internal systems issue and are working to determine a fix,” the company wrote at 12:56PM ET on its status page. The preceding message, from nearly 40 minutes before, notes that Reddit is “is currently offline.”
Identified: We’ve identified an internal systems issue and are working to determine a fix. https://t.co/H3Lt6FkrDl
— Reddit Status (@redditstatus) March 14, 2023
The problem appears to be widespread, with about 50,000 people reporting issues on Downdetector. Many Verge staffers are experiencing…