Things must have changed a great deal since I was using reddit heavily, if it being down is worth posting anywhere as news.

I'm not criticizing them. It's hard to run a site as big as reddit was even 5 or 10 years ago. Just saying it was down alot.

It looks like a scheduled database maintenance: https://reddit.statuspage.io

Sorry. According to the 404 page it was my fault, and then I pressed F5.