Reddit down, and what is ‘You broke Reddit’ error message? A major Reddit outage disrupted access for thousands of users across the United States. Reports surged Monday afternoon as users faced problems with browsing, posting, images, voting, and feeds. Downdetector logged more than 15,000 incidents within minutes. Many users saw the “You broke Reddit” and Error 500 messages. Reddit has not confirmed the cause or timeline for full service restoration.