Hundreds of thousands of Reddit users reported issues with the social media site today amid a major service outage.
Issues started at around 3.45pm Eastern Time on Wednesday, affecting people across the US, UK and Europe.
More than 150,000 people have logged problems on the tracking website Downdetector, which will be a vast undercount of the total users affected.
Reddit was down around 4pm Wednesday Eastern Time for users worldwide
A heat map shows where the most users were having difficulties accessing the site
Reddit said it was ‘currently investigating’ the problem, which is affecting desktop users and mobile web and app users.
It comes just weeks after the social media site suffered a global outage on August 13 which prevented people from accessing their accounts.
The issue was resolved in a matter of hours.
