Just as thousands of Reddit communities went dark to protest the company’s controversial new policy that will put third-party apps out of business, the website itself has gone down. The cause of the outage, for the time being, is unclear. But according to user reports, Reddit.com has been experiencing problems since around 10:25 AM EDT. However, Reddit’s own Status page is showing “all systems operational,” including its website. That doesn’t appear to reflect the current situation, as reports are now flooding in indicating that the Reddit.com homepage won’t load. [Update: June 12, 11:04 AM ET: the status page has been updated to reflect the outage.] When you try to load the site, the main feed displays the message “Something went wrong. Just don’t panic,” and a pop-up says “Sorry, we couldn’t load posts for this page.” According to Reddit’s Status, the company is aware of the problem loading content and is working to resolve the issues. A cause or ETA to a resolution was not identified. TechCrunch is seeing a number of complaints across...
