Might it have something to so with the weight of traffic? Apparently the server is getting hammered with new sign-ups today (cut off for Reddit's free api access).
But earlier today everything worked ( a bit slower but worked at least ). There the login worked 100% of the time just crashed or lagged sometimes back. Now if i try to login it crashes and says
Catch the error and dump the response body to see what you're getting. Might just be the server is overloaded and not responding with the expected JSON. The full body should give you more clues