Social media platform Reddit experienced an outage this afternoon at around 12:20 p.m. PT (or possibly even earlier), resulting in thousands of users being unable to access its website and app. After four hours, it appears to be working again. Reddit confirmed it fixed the issue and is monitoring the results, according to its status page. We discovered the outage ourselves when attempting to visit the homepage, which displayed a black screen with the message: “Upstream connect error or disconnect/reset bef ...