It’s not just you! Reddit is down for everyone around the world. Users that are trying to access reddit.com are given “Our CDN was unable to reach our servers” error.
Reddit down
According to downdetector on twitter, Reddit has been facing downtimes today for the last 20 hours. While the reason for those downtimes remains unknown.

Reddit is having issues since 12:46 PM EST. https://t.co/NEg73KPuYn RT if it's down for you as well #Redditdown
— Downdetector (@downdetector) January 14, 2020
Usually, when the main website is down, the old website https://old.reddit.com/ remains accessible. At the time of publishing this article, the old Reddit domain was accessible while the main domain remained offline.
Our CDN was unable to reach our servers
If this is the first time you are searching the “Our CDN was unable to reach our servers” error, this isn’t the first time. They have a lot of history when it comes to downtime ;).
Reddit Status

For some odd reason, the Reddit Status website appears to be showing “All Systems Operational”.
504 gateway timeout
Update: It looks like many Reddit users are getting the error “504 gateway timeout”.
@reddit Web is down for me pic.twitter.com/BfScpqsHoN
— Chethiya Dissanayake (@ChethiyaKD) January 15, 2020
@reddit is down! pic.twitter.com/pYe3meJC52
— Prateek (प्रतीक) (@prateekkumarweb) January 15, 2020
Reddit user reactions on Twitter
@reddit is down? Guess I have to actually do some work now.
— Raven Decals (@RavenDecals) January 15, 2020
Why is @reddit down when I need it for productive work?!
— Tony Sutherland (@toekneeg6) January 15, 2020
So apparently reddit is down and no one cares….. pic.twitter.com/4JyeZV0BTG
— Liowen (@TheRealLiowen) January 15, 2020
Reddit is down—are… are we… free?
— ???? ????? (@1ofyourmeteors) January 15, 2020
Yes, Reddit is down. It's not just you! pic.twitter.com/oFFNylQdWT
— Manders 🐈 @catroverted.bsky.social (@catroverted) January 15, 2020
Bah… @Reddit is down, so I guess I'll need to be productive today
— Matt Harvey (@75Central) January 15, 2020
Is Reddit Down
Update: It’s been over 30 minutes now that the website remains inaccessible.
Update: The website continues to remain offline for over an hour now.
Update: Reddit continues to be offline for over 2 hours.
Update: After 2 and a half hours, Reddit is back online.