Is Reddit down for you right now? There’s a simple solution: Just log out. Alternatively, fire up Reddit in incognito or private mode. Voilà.

Complaints about the outage at the online discussion board have been ongoing for a few hours now, according to searches on Facebook and Twitter. Sites like Down Detector confirm the problem, though, naturally, similar services that just ping the website you’re checking will report that Reddit is doing just fine.

And it is. You just can’t access the site as a logged-in user. If you do, you’ll get the following generic message:

all of our servers are busy right now

please try again in a minute

(error code: 503)

If you have a solution that allows you to keep browsing Reddit while logged-in, do let us know. But chances are, the outage will be resolved soon enough.

If you head to the Reddit Status account, you’ll see that the site has been struggling with various issues all day.

Here are the updates, in reverse chronological order:

Identified: We're having a higher than usual number of errors on the site today. Additionally our votes are pro… https://t.co/PQi4eGcwUm — reddit status (@redditstatus) December 14, 2015

Identified: The system that powers the "users here now" feature on the site is running slowly. As a result we'r… https://t.co/PQi4eGcwUm — reddit status (@redditstatus) December 14, 2015

Monitoring: We've stabilized the situation. We'll continue to keep a close eye on it throughout the evening. https://t.co/PQi4eGcwUm — reddit status (@redditstatus) December 14, 2015

Investigating: Our cassandra databases are under extreme load at the moment. We're working on the situation. https://t.co/PQi4eGcwUm — reddit status (@redditstatus) December 15, 2015

Investigating: We've temporarily taken down the site in order to mend our database. Back as soon as we can. https://t.co/PQi4eGcwUm — reddit status (@redditstatus) December 15, 2015

Investigating: OAuth clients including AlienBlue are not working at the moment. We're looking into it. https://t.co/PQi4eGcwUm — reddit status (@redditstatus) December 15, 2015

In summary, Reddit appears to be having some problems with its user database, which would explain why you can use the site just fine if you’re not logged in. The second-to-last tweet sounds ominous, but from what we can tell, the whole site was not taken down.

Reddit’s most recent outage occurred last month, but it didn’t last very long. We have contacted Reddit for more information and will update you as we learn more.

Update at 9:15 p.m. Pacific: Reddit has acknowledged the problem directly on its site. “Reddit is in ’emergency read-only mode’ right now. :( You won’t be able to log in. We’re sorry and are working frantically to fix the problem.”

Update at 11:09 p.m. Pacific: Reddit says the site is working again. It tweeted:

https://twitter.com/redditstatus/status/676659277495328768