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Most Reported Problems

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• Website Down (44%)
• Errors (30%)
• Sign in (26%)

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City	Problem Type	Report Time
Patna	Errors	11 days ago
Monclova	Sign in	12 days ago
Nice	Errors	13 days ago
Guayaquil	Errors	23 days ago
Veracruz	Website Down	28 days ago
Bhubaneshwar	Website Down	1 month ago

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  Alexander 'Lex' Williams (@squidlord) reported 4 minutes ago

  @Ochadoji999 The process of online fragmentation is a long-standing problem. We used to have Usenet as the big conversational space and individual IRC channels on some of the larger servers as the ephemeral chat places, and it worked pretty well. Quite frankly, you can run an IRC server on a potato. They can talk to one another in a sort of federated mesh if you want. We had that technology figured out and nailed down. But then came the introduction of walled garden solutions. At least AIM and ICQ used open protocols so other people could make clients that interfaced with them, and you could still talk to your friends using them no matter what client you used. Then came Facebook and Myspace and the wave of early "social media" platforms, which slowly and surely began choking off access to general cross-system information. Reddit, for quite a long time, was a very big anomaly because as long as you spoke its API, it didn't care. Which is why so much of Reddit data made it into training information for various systems. Then Discord servers became very much the norm, which combined even more fragmentary, isolated groups into their own server silo, but within the same platform ecosystem. It was and remains great technology, but the way that it has affected the culture of online communities is somewhat of a problem in my view. It creates a feeling for and desire for insularity. Plus, it focuses on ephemeral conversation rather than long-term stored communication like you find on forums and Usenet and various other places where people have more nuanced conversations. If you think all your ideas deserve to have the lifespan of a mayfly, then I guess it's great, but I don't like it very much. In fairness, there never was a VTuber community. That's the wrong word to use for it. There was a "people who did VTubing and the people who were into watching VTubing." Those people didn't necessarily have many things in common, and they still don't. It is an identity group and not a community. Which sums up so much of what's wrong with it as a whole.

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  Kelvin Hong (@Kelvinhong52) reported 4 minutes ago

  @TTrimoreau Find people talk about the problem. Reddit, cold dm

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  Clippa🐰✂️ (@CallMeClippa) reported 6 minutes ago

  @deverslath @tbdeinc @c_vinchenzo when no one could find the reddit leak that didnt exist, they created one hoping it would muddy the waters but people like you that are good at this are tracking everything in the **** show discord server already.

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  Josh (@joshmanders) reported 7 minutes ago

  @vaxryy > reddit Well there's your problem

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  John (@hello_code_) reported 9 minutes ago

  @saaayyyaaan @Guronnimo Cheapest test is just reading how people describe the problem before you write code. I search Reddit for the exact complaint first, saves months of guessing

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  GODFOE UNIVERSE (@GODFOE_UNIVERSE) reported 14 minutes ago

  This tired 20th century psychoanalysis is just laughable. These “weak people” escaped slavery, crossed the desert, conquered a foreign land for hundreds of years, and kept the documents about it; preserving their identity so well against the Assyrians and Romans you’re still mad about them today. Now tell me, which angle of Jew-sperging are we taking here? Is it “Christianity is a Jewish religion”? If so, that religion conquered the gods of Homer and the lands of Odin, just not entirely the way poor ol’ Nietzsche liked with his made up system of beliefs that magically served what he liked and condemned what he didn’t like. The problem you’ll have with Nietzsche is the same he had with himself, there’s no means to ground his ideas of morality so they drift off into Reddit levels of cope. You don’t have to like Israel dude, but at least bring something other than ideas that were laughable over a century ago.

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  kolter (@_k0lter_) reported 18 minutes ago

  I remember when I was in kindergarten there was this one disliked kid, he was weird and when we were 4-5 he was running around trying to kiss the other kids IIRC. One day, when we were like 5 or 6, a couple of us were sent to the bathroom by the teacher to do something, and since he was also there I just grabbed and threw him at the rest of the group while they weren't looking. They got mad at him and everyone went to the teacher to tell on him, and he was right behind them in the line to tell on me. I remembered that the last time I was in trouble for doing something I just said "I'm sorry" so I was holding the door shut and constantly saying that hoping it would go away like the last time. The last thing I remember was the teacher barging into the room while she screamed "are you insane", and then some memory from later of me crying at a table with a friend. Was I The ******* Reddit?

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  Keegan Kreutzer (@keegankreutzer) reported 22 minutes ago

  That retatrutide vial in your fridge is now an exhibit in a federal lawsuit. Lilly sued six online sellers in August. Not for patents. For what they told customers: "research only" next to a dosing chart, "same as the real thing," "safe." Their lawyers used Reddit posts describing side effects as evidence. Three sellers took their pages down the same day.

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  Mαulik (@maulik_5) reported 23 minutes ago

  there have been so many weird little chapters with my app lately started at $0. got my first $29 payment thought okay... we're doing this! then nothing for weeks visitors dropped signups came in but trials didn't someone literally told me they stopped because onboarding asked for a card too early so i rebuilt things then rebuilt them again landing page onboarding ui/ux performance basically everything i could convince myself was “the problem” at one point a post about my yc application randomly hit 84k views and brought in hundreds of followers and then my next posts went back to being... well, my next posts 😭 reddit got banned too cancelled claude because i knew i was spending too much time building then somehow burned another $20 on ai credits fixing onboarding again and honestly, there were days where i felt like i had absolutely no idea what i was doing especially seeing other founders move so fast while mailient barely moved but that's also when something changed i stopped thinking about how to make mailient look successful and started thinking about how to actually make it work one customer one problem one clear promise one real reason to come back still at $29 still going for $200 mrr still a long way to go but i'm still here building it. DON'T U EVER GIVE UP!

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  Elle's Tenacious Library 🧬🔬 (@DefAMustRead) reported 25 minutes ago

  @SirWins67879341 @crochet_mom314 @thepeaklady I often describe women as falling into one of three categories - TikTok, Twitter, and Reddit. You want a reddit (although I haven't been there in about a year; I hope it's not now terrible like everything else)

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  Anze Markovic | Performance Creative (@anzedetn) reported 26 minutes ago

  Sometimes the best-performing line in an ad isn’t the hook. It’s the line 20 seconds later that describes the customer’s exact experience: “I wake up, and my ankles look almost normal. Then I spend a few hours standing, and by 3 PM my shoes feel tight, my skin feels stretched, and I’m quietly wondering how I’m supposed to get through the rest of the day.” That level of specificity usually comes from Reddit research. It takes time to dig through the posts, comments, and oddly specific complaints people share when they think nobody is listening to them. But our team loves it. Because that’s where you find the emotional details customers rarely say in a survey: The embarrassment of avoiding sandals. The frustration of pressing a finger into swollen skin and watching the mark stay there. The anxiety of planning your day around when your legs will start aching. Specific recognition keeps people watching because they don’t just understand the problem. They feel seen.

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  Mike Sulka (@SulkaMike) reported 27 minutes ago

  Fable 5.1 has been out for about a day and Reddit has already discovered why some people don't like the way it writes: THE WATERMARK. Except...probably not. Fable 5.1 and Mythos 5.1 are the first new Claude models carrying Anthropic's statistical text watermark, and some users are already wondering whether that's why the newer Claude models feel more verbose, structured or exhausting to read. I went through Anthropic's actual watermark documentation, and their explanation makes that theory pretty hard to defend. The watermark doesn't insert hidden characters or extra words. It only nudges the random choice between equally acceptable next words. Anthropic says its testing found no measurable effect on creativity, readability or output quality, and cites Google's controlled testing of the underlying SynthID-Text approach reaching the same result. It also adds no extra tokens and essentially no latency. And here's the detail I hadn't appreciated: Anthropic is applying the watermark globally, even though it exists largely because of the EU AI Act, because it says it doesn't yet have a durable way to apply it only by geography. Older Claude models are eventually getting it too. Code barely gets watermarked at all when exact token choices matter. Factual passages get less watermarking for the same reason. The watermark lives mostly in places where “grey” and “overcast” are equally good choices. So if Fable 5.1 suddenly feels like it swallowed a management-consulting handbook, I wouldn't blame Brussels just yet. But humans being humans, we quickly try to reverse-engineer model behavior from vibes. Yesterday people thought Fable 5.1 existed because Claude suddenly seemed smarter. Today people think its writing changed because of a watermark. Last week a Gemini model told somebody it was a model that hadn't even been released yet. The Behavioral-Fingerprint Trap keeps winning. We are getting very good at noticing that something changed. We're still pretty terrible at figuring out what changed underneath it. And in 2026, it could be the checkpoint, the harness, the effort setting, the router, the safeguard layer, the system prompt, the watermark... ...or Claude just decided it really wanted to give you twelve bullet points today.

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  Tech With Matteo (@TechWithMatteo) reported 30 minutes ago

  @lukmanAufbau honestly with GeoCam i found real users just by answering old reddit threads where people were already complaining about the exact problem, way better than guessing where my audience hangs out.

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  Saulthis445 (@Mass3279) reported 36 minutes ago

  @libertybelleX47 @brndxix Reddit is down the hall and to the left

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  Simmo (@yoursimmo11) reported 36 minutes ago

  Stop f*cking adding so much stuff. Honestly. Please. Just stop. Stop stacking. Stop pill popping. Stop reading one more study at 11pm. Stop perusing Reddit and Ray Peat forums at midnight. Stop all of it. Think about it. If any of it actually worked, you'd have stopped by now (and you haven't). Pattern I see after coaching dozens and dozens of 7-and-8 figure execs is that not one was missing something. NOT ONE. Every single one had the opposite problem. Too much interference. Too many pills, too many rules, and way too much stimulus before 9am... all of it standing between his body and the thing it already knows how to do. Trust me on this: You're not under-supplemented. You're over-interfered. Your body doesn't reward effort. It rewards ORDER.

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  Yash (@yashlame) reported 36 minutes ago

  Only about 4% of Reddit citation instances have a brand actually named on the cited page. The thread gets the credit. The category gets the credit. You get a mention of the problem you solve.

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  FINTECH.TV (@FINTECHTVglobal) reported 38 minutes ago

  Today's @NYSE Notables with @JD_Durkin: 🟢 Reddit $RDDT +9.31% bouncing back on institutional accumulation after its S&P 500 addition, still down 33% year to date

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  Como que se antoja un asadito en gorditas apoco no (@AsaditoRojo) reported 39 minutes ago

  @duckyIsaDuck Few years ago I was feeling bad about it and then I went to a small **** reddit to see how others handled it and then I realized I was larping about having size issues. I felt better about my powerful six inches lol. Jokes aside, just learn how to properly use your hands guys.

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  सम्यक সম্যক (@samyak128) reported 39 minutes ago

  All Indian discourse is a mimicry of American discourse from 10-15 years ago. This means we are now in the era of cringe Reddit adolescent atheism, which is basically people in their 20s projecting their issues against their parents through the internet. But since this is India, there will be no original thought, only mimicry. We even mimic the cringe. We can expect an Indian version of the Aalewis Reddit post from an Indian "professional quote maker" sometime soon

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  Bmore73 (@mdemt) reported 40 minutes ago

  @ErimhanAhmet May 2024 — Former sailor’s photos called “worse than prison” A former Navy worker shared mess-hall photos on Reddit (raw-looking chicken, questionable brown meat, pink hotdog, moldy bread). Commenters included veterans from the 1990s who said shipboard food was “really quite awful,” greasy, and off-tasting. Covered by The Mirror.  Longer-term context from reporting: Sailors have long described repetitive menus, declining quality after fresh produce runs out (often within the first couple of weeks), and reliance on personal snacks, protein powder, and ramen to supplement. Midnight rations (“midrats”) were frequently cited as especially sparse leftovers. Ships returning to port rusty after long deployments October 2020 — USS Stout (DDG-55) after 215 consecutive days at sea The destroyer returned to Naval Station Norfolk looking heavily rust-streaked and weathered after a record 215 days without docking (COVID restrictions prevented port visits). Photos circulated widely showing rust patches on the hull. Daily Mail and later Naval News / NAVSEA coverage noted the rust was removed and the ship repainted after return. NAVSEA later used the Stout photo as an example of high operational tempo plus saltwater corrosion.  December 2021 — Broader “Navy is rusting away” reporting Task & Purpose published photos of multiple ships showing rust after deployments, including USS Arleigh Burke, USS Fort McHenry, USS James E. Williams, and USS Zumwalt, plus the 2020 Stout return. The piece attributed it to a “crushing deployment cycle” that left little time for preservation work.  2018–2019 examples and analysis • USS Curtis Wilbur drew comments for a “rusty and shabby appearance” during a 2018 Hong Kong visit. • 2019 Defense News “Rust Dialogues” discussed why U.S. ships often look rustier than allied ships: American vessels stay at sea longer with fewer port visits for chipping and painting. A 2005 photo of USS Normandy mid-deployment was contrasted with later, rustier ships. Corrosion control was already a multi-billion-dollar annual cost.  2023 NAVSEA statement Naval News quoted NAVSEA on rusty ships: high operational tempo + steel + seawater = rust staining wherever coatings are scratched. Crews do preservation at sea, but it is balanced against operations. The Stout 2020 photo was referenced again.  Rust after long deployments is treated by the Navy as expected cosmetic wear from saltwater and limited time for topside work while underway; it is usually addressed after return to port. Food complaints have been a persistent sailor grievance for decades, especially once fresh stores are gone and the 21-day repeating frozen/canned menu takes over. Both issues tend to surface most visibly after unusually long or high-tempo deployments with few or no port calls.

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  Pmax- Pronoun Boy (@PedagogyMaxima) reported 42 minutes ago

  Imperial Guard is in such a terrible place balance wise that one of the top posts on the Warhammer reddit is about a Guard player that employed the filthiest tactics and abusive bad manners table play against a new player and still lost despite tabling their opponent turn 3. FHMR

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  James In Beta (@JamesJames518) reported 42 minutes ago

  RedditMaster Karma Mode actually wasn’t something I originally planned to build. But after talking to RedditMaster users, I kept hearing the same problem: new Reddit accounts often can’t post where they want, and it gets frustrating fast. A lot of people end up buying accounts, but purchased accounts can be risky and get banned easily. The other option is using an agency’s accounts, but then all the traffic goes to accounts you don’t own, and the quality can be inconsistent. So the safest long-term approach is still to grow your own account organically. That’s what RedditMaster’s Karma Mode is built for. Our users typically reach around 1,000 karma in about 90 days. I am really proud about what we achieved.

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  Laqpiku (@laqpiku) reported 43 minutes ago

  @BAcct8 @coinjoined @NeoxaPortal Also the reddit post was by them. They shought to destroy the only place they traded at because 1) Wrong ticker in their mind 2nd) They didnt like the price when market kept slashing it down.

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  sandiek is in the skiiiieeesssss (@sandiek) reported 47 minutes ago

  Sigh **** @Reddit for making the only bearable way to access that site login only.

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  Mike Sulka (@SulkaMike) reported 51 minutes ago

  WSJ says Gemini 3.8 Flash, internally called Skimaki, could release as soon as today. Google engineers using it inside Jetski reportedly preferred it to Anthropic's Opus in head-to-head coding work. That's an internal opinion, not an independent benchmark, but WSJ reporting it from employees is a pretty substantial upgrade from the X cottage industry leak-account chatter we've had all week. Reddit actually adds an interesting piece to this. People already using 3.7 Flash keep coming back to the same thing: not that it is magically smarter than everything else, but that it is so damn fast. I agree. One developer described building several semi-complex web apps and said watching it work was a “hoot” because of the speed. Another heavy Claude/ChatGPT user said moving to 3.7 gave him “whiplash” because of how quickly it could iterate through coding work. A model that's 95% as good but can take three swings while the expensive model takes one may actually be the better coding model. There are also Reddit posts this morning claiming Gemini is identifying itself as 3.8 Flash even though the model selector still says 3.7. I would ignore those completely as proof. Asking an LLM what model it is remains the AI equivalent of asking a golden retriever who manufactured the dog food. Google's public pages still haven't given us a gemini-3.8-flash endpoint as I write this, so we're not across the finish line yet. But if 3.8 lands and independently backs up the WSJ coding claims, I think the story is pretty simple: Google may be turning latency from a product feature into an intelligence advantage. In agentic coding, the fastest good model gets to make more mistakes. And more importantly, it gets to fix them before the other guy finishes thinking.

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  berk 🔻 (@berkpvnk) reported 54 minutes ago

  @JohnSmith5z5e @HDRgameAnalysis I was having issues with the movement on controller, someone on reddit said to change the deadzone from round to square/raw and that fixed it. I use a Gamesir controller so maybe it's just brand specific

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  Valkurung (@valkurung) reported 55 minutes ago

  @AleG17Ric Can we not just mass report the subreddit and get it taken down? They do nothing but post threads and pictures of other people to harass them and brigade against them and **********. It's not productive nor does it seem like something Reddit should want on their site.

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  Burnt Toasst (@BurntToasst) reported 56 minutes ago

  @Chavez628K @decktech1047 @marceelias Your hurt little fee fees are your problem so can't help you there. But I'm sure it will be a post on reddit that says something like "and then I called him a filthy animal" and end with all of X standing up to clap for you. Regardless, you'll still be a retard.

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  Mendía Helicopter Tours (@MendiaTours) reported 57 minutes ago

  @PriestRitchie They trained hard for it. Enormous amount of debate and discussion. They forged and refined their rhetoric together. The problem is they were on Reddit, a place that bans truth and dignity and hides dissenting views. They assumed it would be more of the same here

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  Mohit Agarwal (@mohitowit) reported 59 minutes ago

  Is @Reddit down?