Did Reddit just denylist all IPs?

by skunkworker on 11/14/2023, 8:23:33 PM with 44 comments
I think reddit just blocked multiple IPs by mistake. On my personal device, on wifi, off wifi etc all IPs are now reporting blocked.

EDIT: old.reddit.com works, but www.reddit.com does not.

EDIT2: Looks like it's back up now.

  • by tredre3 on 11/14/2023, 8:26:27 PM

    Yup, here's the full message:

    whoa there, pardner!

    reddit's awesome and all, but you may have a bit of a problem.

    Make sure your User-Agent is not empty, is something unique and descriptive and try again. if you're supplying an alternate User-Agent string, try changing back to default as that can sometimes result in a block.

    You can read Reddit's Terms of Service here.

    if you think that we've incorrectly blocked you or you would like to discuss easier ways to get the data you want, please contact us at this email address.

    when contacting us, please include your ip address which is: 1.2.3.4 and reddit account

  • by skunkworker on 11/14/2023, 8:24:01 PM

    https://www.reddit.com/ is not working but https://old.reddit.com/. I wonder what got pushed by mistake.

  • by Scoundreller on 11/14/2023, 8:40:16 PM

    > old.reddit.com works, but www.reddit.com does not.

    That was nice. Finally admitting new Reddit sucks.

    > edit2:%20Looks%20like%20it's%20back%20up%20now.

    :sadface: I wished it was forever

  • by RetpolineDrama on 11/14/2023, 8:38:59 PM

    The timing of this was perfect. I left a somewhat snarky comment to someone being a huge jerk and a few minutes later I'm IP banned. I was like, "damn that must have been an admin"

  • by modoc on 11/14/2023, 8:25:18 PM

    Broken here (USA) as well.

  • by rozenmd on 11/14/2023, 8:47:45 PM

    Was down for about 4 mins: https://reddit.onlineornot.com/

  • by dageshi on 11/14/2023, 8:24:29 PM

    Was waiting for someone else to post.

    I'm blocked, about 2 mins ago, in the UK

    edit: now i have

    upstream connect error or disconnect/reset before headers. reset reason: overflow

  • by more_corn on 11/14/2023, 10:04:28 PM

    Wouldn’t know. The domain is banned on my home network for general antisocial fuckery by the site owners and operators.

  • by RetpolineDrama on 11/14/2023, 9:20:56 PM

    It went down, then came back for me. Now it's back down again (Still down as of this post)

  • by Uzza on 11/14/2023, 8:28:13 PM

    I also got it, but when I did a hard refresh two minutes ago it worked again.

  • by badcppdev on 11/14/2023, 8:24:03 PM

    Broken from UK and Germany

  • by twiddling on 11/14/2023, 8:24:01 PM

    apparently, blocking me direct and via VPN

  • by dageshi on 11/14/2023, 8:27:05 PM

    working again for me