Is Reddit down? Popular website knocked offline leaving viral fans in the dark
A HUGELY popular image and link sharing site has been knocked offline.
Visitors to the site were met with a dark purple screen showing the familiar Reddit mascot and the words "Reddit is down for maintenance".
Reddit was co-founded by Alexis Ohanian, who is set to wed Tennis ace Serena Williams.
The pair are expecting a child.
Reddit was recently valued at £407million and is considered to be the seventh biggest site in the US.
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"The issue has been identified and a fix is being implemented," according to a Reddit status monitor at 8am.
At 8.30am it stated: "A fix has been implemented and we are monitoring the results."
By around 08.45 the site appear to be back online.
Reddit said that it had been undergoing some scheduled maintenance which was completed at around 6.30am.
But more than two hours later there is reports of issues continuing.
The problems appear to be part of a switch to new databases.
Earlier this week Reddit warned: "We're swapping out three of our databases which requires a short site downtime."
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