For the last couple of hours Reddit has been working on mitigating the attack

Apr 19, 2013 12:30 GMT  ·  By

A couple of hours ago, Reddit representatives announced on Twitter that they were working on mitigating a distributed denial-of-service (DDOS) attack that disrupted the website.

“We are working on recovering from what appears to be a DDoS,” reads one notification posted on the Reddit Status Twitter feed.

It’s uncertain who is behind the attack, but it’s clear that the downtime isn’t the result of too many users visiting the site at the same time. Reddit calls it a “malicious DDOS attack.”

A tweet posted a few minutes ago reads: “We've mitigated part of the DDoS at this time. However, certain site functions are disabled.”

Currently, the website appears to be working properly.

Judging by the posts from the Reddit Status Twitter account, the service has experienced some temporary issues over the past months, but malicious DDOS attacks haven’t been blamed for any of them up until now.