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UK-based price comparision and broadband swapping service Uswitch has totted up the figures and come up with a surprising candidate for most outage incidents in 2021.

Outages are a tricky thing to quantify, and the metric used by Uswitch was a simple count of the most visited websites against a total number of incidents reported by DownDetector. The "visited website" metric ruled out the likes of Azure and AWS, although both services lurk behind the scenes. However, hotspots like Facebook, Instagram, and TikTok all qualified.

At 180 incidents, according to Uswitch, Reddit was head and shoulders ahead of the pack. A whopping 60 per cent of issues were related to forum's app. Following, at 107 incidents, was Discord (server connection woes afflicted 73 per cent of blackouts), just snatching second place from Instagram. The food and lifestyle happy snapper accounted for 106 incidents (the app accounted for 55 per cent of problems).

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