Yesterday we saw the iPhone subreddit kick off the planned protest early that wants Reddit to reconsider its API changes. Today thousands of subreddits have also gone dark, joining the cause. In what may be related to the number of non-functional subreddits, it appears Reddit’s whole platform is now down.

Update 8:50 am PT: We’re seeing Reddit back up – that is for the subreddits and pages that haven’t gone dark for the protest. Reports of the downtime have also dropped on Down Detector.

As we reported over the weekend, over 4,000 subreddits with hundreds of millions of subscribers in total have gone dark today. Some have committed to doing a 48-hour blackout, while some like the iPhone subreddit have vowed to shut down indefinitely in protest of the API changes that will kill off most third-party apps by the end of June.

When heading to Reddit’s website this morning, nothing is loading with the top section showing the message “Something went wrong. Just don’t panic.”

Even on the “Popular” landing page, nothing loads. At the time of writing, Down Detector has seen over 40