Online forum Reddit went down on Monday for thousands of users across the world.

On its status page, Reddit said it was investigating elevated errors across its website and the app.

Over 112,400 users reported that the platform was down at 11.39 a.m. ET, according to Downdetector, which tracks outages by collating status reports from various sources.

It appears the forum has since come back online, although no explanation has been given for the outage.

This is a developing story, check back for updates.

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