Reddit status: access issues and outage reports
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Users are reporting problems related to: website down, errors and sign in.
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Problems in the last 24 hours
The graph below depicts the number of Reddit reports received over the last 24 hours by time of day. When the number of reports exceeds the baseline, represented by the red line, an outage is determined.
May 21: Problems at Reddit
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Most Reported Problems
The following are the most recent problems reported by Reddit users through our website.
- Website Down (64%)
- Errors (26%)
- Sign in (11%)
Live Outage Map
The most recent Reddit outage reports came from the following cities:
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Reddit Issues Reports
Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:
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Catherine (@Catherine5931) reportedReddit is a classic example of an unfairly beaten down stock. Once the market loses patience with the returns on heavy AI spending, capital will naturally rotate back into companies with such strong cash flows.
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Newsfox (@theNewsfox) reportedDisgracefully the @greenparty Reddit thread is being run by cowardly censors who shadow ban accounts. I’ll be raising this serious issue with @Reddit .
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cyberprince (@cyberprince_rwo) reportedReddit possesses something almost no company has: massive indexed human conversation data across nearly every domain of human interest. That dataset becomes MORE valuable in the AI age, not less. The entire AI industry has a massive authenticity problem: synthetic content SEO spam AI generated slop fake engagement recycled outputs $RDDT remains one of the few places where millions of humans still argue, review, explain, obsess, recommend, and troubleshoot in natural language at internet scale. That has enormous strategic value to: OpenAI Google Meta Anthropic and basically every frontier model company.
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sexafterchummachati (@UnskippableLife) reported@idkbutimfhunny i use reddit for my problems and youtube for tutorials
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Bettor Picks (@bettorpicks1) reported@PhilHarmonic300 @FanaticsBook Yeah don’t be surprised when that changes. It used to be the same for me but lately many people have been having issues. Check Reddit and you’ll see what I mean.
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Melos (@Master_J0n) reported@sama @OpenAI Having massive issues since last night with chats disappearing or not opening. Questions go unanswered and takes anywhere from a couple mins to 30 mins to tell me its having connection issues. There's lots of reddit threads of people having the same issue. Can you guys please look in on this? I can't pay for something I'm not able to use.
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Joseph R. Brandon (@JosephRBr4ndon) reported@reddit_lies Is it time to just shut down reddit?
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CommieDigitalGamer (@CommieDG) reported@ShellTerminal @reyookah It always ends up going there regardless if it is green reddit or reddit vanilla. Just how the tribalistic nature works out. These communities based solely on shame culture are all crab buckets. We should all look down at those really toxic parts of identity groups in disgust.
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Abangan Tech (@abangantech) reportedHour 10–24: Have 5 real conversations. DM people who signed up or commented on your Reddit post. Ask only 3 questions: 1. "Tell me about the last time this problem cost you time or money." 2. "What have you already tried to fix it?" 3. "If I built X, what would you pay for it?" Do NOT pitch. Do NOT explain your solution. Just listen. If they struggle to answer question 1 — the problem isn't painful enough. Stop.
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Okara (@askOkara) reportedyour website is probably leaking traffic right now > broken seo > weak pages > missing comparison content > no reddit mentions > no ai citations > no clear topical authority okara ai cmo finds the highest priority fixes and fixes them for you
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Dan Saltman (@dancantstream) reportedFYI, I reached out to @crashoverride on twitter DMs in march showcasing the issue with his "botting" tracker when it comes to people that use legitimate embeds. Now, I see him using destiny (who has the most active community on reddit of ANY streamer) as an example of botting is just either bad faith or sloppy code. Attached is a screenshot showing the DM. I was reaching out for AE's channel (which i wanted tracked) but obviously this would apply to dgg as well. Maybe all this site can do is count kick chatters + viewers? I assumed the tech was more advanced but if its getting this error that wrong, I would cast doubt on the other "example" streamers as well. Also, I literally gave him an alternate url that showed both chats so even if that was the way he was chatting "bots" he could still do that method.
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💫 Carly-Rae 💫 (@CarlyRaeSummers) reported@darkchold52 @lavendersodaa It's an issue that effects a huge chunk of people. Image sourced off reddit.
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God of Prompt (@godofprompt) reportedPrompt 2: "The Pain Point Miner" "Based on the [NICHE] projects you just found, I need you to do deep research on the complaints and unmet needs people are expressing around these tools and this space in general. Search Reddit threads, X posts, Product Hunt comment sections, Hacker News discussions, and app store reviews for phrases like 'I wish,' 'why can't,' 'still waiting for,' 'the problem with,' and 'I'd pay for.' Give me the top 20 pain points ranked by how often they appear, with direct quotes and source links for each one."
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✪ xander isnt seeing ariana raye or conan ꕤ (@eternallyxander) reportedholy **** reddit has the full 90 minute leak? guess im not buying cinema tickets anymore **** glitch productions
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Josh Johnston (@joshykobyashi) reportedReddit is a source of language. It is not a source of stories. This sounds obvious. It is not. When our AI content system shipped its first draft cycle, it invented a client. Real-sounding scene, specific dollar number, a quote that fit Josh's voice perfectly. Every detail was lifted from a Reddit thread and remixed into "what Josh saw on a call last week." It read like every other LinkedIn post that gets 200 impressions and feels off. The fix was a single rule: Reddit gives us the WAY agency owners talk. Real files (client notes, sales calls, case studies) give us WHAT actually happened. The two never get mixed. If no real anchor exists for a post, the post gets written as observation or opinion. Not fiction. Not "a client told me." Not a Reddit comment laundered into Josh's first-person. This is the difference between AI-assisted content and AI-generated content. One uses your judgment for what to say and a system for how to say it. The other uses a system for both and you become the editor of a stranger's voice. If your content sounds like everyone else's, your prompt isn't the problem. Your source of stories is. Reddit is full of plausible scenes that didn't happen to you. Steal the phrasing. Never steal the scene. Audit the last 10 posts you shipped. How many of them open with something specific from your actual life. If the answer is under half, your system is making things up.
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Saeed Anwar (@saen_dev) reportedReddit is underrated for finding early users because the pain is unfiltered and unsolicited. 300 users from a tool built around a problem you personally hated is how the best indie products start.
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Man With No Name (@ManWithNoName87) reported@grahamformaine You shouldn't be taking offense at anything with who you are as a human being. You hold multiple character issue problems and should have just stuck to being a run of the mill reddit douche bag, instead of going into the public eye
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MIKS (@MIKS_ae) reportedwhy AI comments on reddit will kill your account in a week many people in 2026 are trying to scale reddit through AI the logic is clear. chatgpt writes 100 comments an hour. the economics make sense but reddit catches AI-generated text within 24 hours through pattern detection what happens: . first comment goes through . 24 hours later posts get removed . 48 hours later shadowban . one week later permanent ban reddit started training LLM detectors back in 2024 after the deals with google and openai every comment in our campaigns is written manually. slow. doesnt scale. costs more than AI. but its the only way to keep accounts alive if you or your team uses AI for reddit, it ends in a BAN sooner or later, and every investment you made into those accounts goes into a hole
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John Cyrano's New Account (@John_Cyrano) reported@Stewby_Stew @EdLatimore Oh he's whining to Reddit, so he's got his own problems. But more broadly, so much of the discourse around relationship problems deals with male inability to deal with his SO's past, and when one scratches past the surface, it's not the past that's the problem, but the message it sends to the current man when he learns that she was willing to do things for other men that she wouldn't for him. It feels like disrespect, and if a man doesn't already have a strong sense of self, it can really harm his self respect. It doesn't even have to be stuff that's all that crazy, and there's stuff one should legitimately leave in the past. But even there, she needs to tell her man "I did x in the past. I didn't like it, and I don't really want to do it, but I love and respect you, and if you really need it, I'll try to accommodate" or "I did x in the past, and I hated it and I won't ever do it again. If that's a red line for you I understand, but I love and respect you and wanted to be up front with you" That respects her man and gives him the choice. If he REALLY wants whatever it is, they can both not waste each others time. But absent that mutually agreed point, then anything one has done with someone else, one should be ready and willing to do with ones partner.
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BRATOR (@imbratorX) reported@MalckiahS I really appreciate your thoughts but please take it down bro. This will look bad on r/Greymanes if they know any Reddit admins and will get us banned
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SerialPillock (@SerialPillock) reported@ShitpostGate Reddit has a similarly genius new feature. When Google etc. went to ****, we had to start adding "reddit" to searches to get a human (not journo/empty SEO) answer. Now Reddit has an AI which trawls through the human answers and greets you with a broken robot version ... \o_O/
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Akromakroma (@akromakroma) reportedGoogling my Linux issues be like, here's 2 Reddit results from 3 yrs ago saying somethin like "oh yeah this happens with Linux & NVidia sometimes, what ur gonna do is hyperflop your teraballs on the megaboard then patch the googlybits with this command line kragleblotz" type ****
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Mantis Investments (@MantisInvests) reported$RDDT Keeping the bear case of the thesis in mind is important, but I don’t think it is worth going down the rabbit hole until you actually see something show up in the fundamentals. Reddit is getting stronger every quarter, not weaker.
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Forrest Winyard Wolstane (@ForrestWolstane) reported@Schmeehh @KentSuminski @Flammiferrus ***** believes in the Christian Darke Ages KOL. Reddit is down the hall and to the left.
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sierraplusultra ☆ (@sierraplusultra) reportedthey said my voice is so emotionless that it made them viscerally angry and ruined the record, meanwhile on friday someone told me i'm their favorite singer ever i would feel worse if i didn't have years of experience reading reddit posts saying my faves are terrible singers
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🇺🇸South Carolina Man🏁 (@buwalda_john) reported@Dkmoney120 You've mistakenly logged in to Twitter. Reddit is down the hall and to the left.
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Smarkie (@MyOwnerBites) reported@mpellatt @HackingLZ vbscript was terrible , way way more terrible than js. The problem is that js came out as a solution that was to extend the html and folks in normal fashion decided that it had to do way more than that. I would take reddit with a 50Kg sack of salt. :)
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Not Needed (@nkpajares787) reported@Hookrack2019 @cobaco123 @RealPostFolder The original reddit post, the op said they told him as soon as she found out. Op pays the bills and everything. What is the problem just staying one extra week at his place? He gets it every year and this is the one time she is asking to use it.
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Tmos Monstrocity (@TmosMonstrocity) reported@TheFeyPrince @Gryphonknightt Yet Reddit fan art is being call fine art and AI is being called slop. This is the hypocritical stance. If it's too good it's AI, if it's bad it's AI, if it's mid it's AI art. Do you understand the issue here? Everything is AI that isn't them or their "friends". This is gatekeeping 101.
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Ann🏴☠️🇳🇴 (@Rando40000) reported@belisarius444 @PlutoThevTuber @GrumpyCatterman Just stay on Reddit or wherever you red pill incels losers go to b*tch about how women won’t date you unless you’re rich/handsome/6 ft , when the real problem is that you guys expect women to like you , even though you guys don’t bother showering more than a once a week.