Reddit suffers outage for several hours with ‘Upstream connect error’ message

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Reddit, the popular social news aggregation platform, experienced a sudden outage on Wednesday night, with more than 50,000 reports. Later according to Reddit’s status page, the company confirmed that it fixed the issue and is monitoring the results.

Reddit experienced a site-wide outage on Wednesday, November 20th, as most users complained about problems connecting to the online forum. On Wednesday, over 50,000 reports were registered on DownDetector that the social media platform is down. Moreover, as people rushed to other social media platforms to express their frustration and seek updates, Reddit’s outage became the center of attention.

Multiple Reddit users face connection error: Key details

Starting at around 1:30 AM IST (3 PM Eastern Time), Reddit users began reporting problems accessing the site, and within the next three hours, more than 50,000 cases were registered. Most of these users reported an unusual prompt that said ‘Upstream connect error or disconnect/reset before headers. reset connection failure.’

Within a few minutes of this chaos, Reddit shared a statement on the website, stating, “We are currently investigating this issue.” Later, the firm also acknowledged the ‘Degraded performance for reddit.com.’ status. However, at the time of writing, it appears that the major Reddit outage has mostly been resolved.

How to solve the ‘Upstream connect error’ on Reddit?

Usually, the ‘Upstream error or disconnection error occurs when there is a server-related problem from the native website. Therefore, many websites report server overloads, expired certificates, or general connectivity problems during such scenarios. Here's how you can fix these issues.

• Ensure that you have a stable internet connection.
• Clear your browser’s cache and cookies.
• Keep an eye on the support page for any official fix or update.
• Close and restart your system or the browser to clear any pending task running in the background.