Reddit down as thousands of users get error 503 message

The self-described ‘front page of the Internet’ was down for tends of thousands of users worldwide on Wednesday.

Anyone attempting to access the news and entertainment site was greeted with a ‘503’ error message during the outage at about 1pm California time (9pm UK time).

The site experienced ”issues on web and mobile clients,” it tweeted in response to a flood of complaints on social media.

“We’ve identified the underlying issue and systems are beginning to recover,” it said in a later update.