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Problems in the last 24 hours
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July 5: 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 (62%)
- Errors (26%)
- Sign in (12%)
Live Outage Map
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Reddit Issues Reports
Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:
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Graham Kemp (@accountingetc) reportedThe Reddit issue shows Andy Burnham has such contempt for democracy that he doesn't even need the MSM as collaborators.
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Alexis Santos (@deepfirstsearch) reportedDay 2 of learning distribution. 🧪 Spent time studying how people actually grow through Reddit. Biggest lesson: Don’t start by posting your product. Find conversations where your users already hang out. Be useful. Answer questions. Learn their language. Understand their problems. Earn attention before asking for it. 🎯 Today: find 10 relevant conversations and join them. Let’s see what happens. 🚀
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cece 🫀 (@cloversforcece) reported@love_lttr I read this as swedish women but yeah this is unacceptable I saw on reddit this doctor was saying how like 4 out of every 10 male patients he has would leave skid marks on the paper on the exam table when they sat down
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toni (@tonitrades_) reported@LomahCrypto Forums never left - Reddit, Discord, CT threads all kept it alive. But the real issue is attention span. People want takes, not real discussion.
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Sora is quirky (@soraisquirky) reported@roo_tarded Reddit is only good if you have a specific question about a game or computer issues or things like that, but you don't need to be the one asking, you find an old post and hope it's been answered
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Mohammad Anas (@mohmmad__anas) reportedPlatform Fragmentation Is Your Real Problem A founder I know spent an hour writing a tweet about her revenue milestone. Then she spent forty minutes turning it into a LinkedIn post because LinkedIn demands a different voice—longer, more reflective, slightly more formal. Then she spent thirty minutes writing a Reddit comment version because Reddit punishes corporate-sounding language. Then a blog excerpt. Then an Instagram caption. One hour of thinking became three hours of writing. She told me it killed the joy of the win. By the time she'd rewritten it four times, the original moment of excitement had been processed into content, then reprocessed, then optimized. What she'd felt was gone. What remained was a set of platform-specific artifacts that technically said the same thing but lived in completely different registers. This is platform fragmentation. And it's not about speed. It's about friction. Each platform has developed its own grammar. X rewards brevity and personality. LinkedIn rewards thoughtfulness and professional insight. Reddit rewards directness and skepticism toward marketing language. Instagram rewards visual storytelling. A founder trying to reach all five platforms isn't doing one job. They're doing five jobs that happen to have the same source material. The common response is repurposing. Write once, repurpose everywhere. In theory, this multiplies your reach without multiplying your work. In practice, it means accepting that each platform gets a degraded version of what you meant to say. I've watched this play out. A founder writes a strong core idea. It lands on X. Then the LinkedIn version softens it—adds more qualification, becomes more diplomatic. The Reddit version hardens it—removes nuance to match Reddit's anti-corporate tone. The Instagram version abstracts it into an image with five words. The blog version expands it into something that barely resembles the core insight. Each version is technically correct. Each is adapted to platform norms. But the voice fractures. A reader following you on X gets a different version of your thinking than someone following you on LinkedIn. Over time, they don't know what you actually believe. They know five interpretations of what you believe, depending on which platform they're on. Worse, you stop believing it too. When you have to rewrite an insight five times, something changes in how you relate to it. The first version is authentic. The second is still you. By the fifth, you're a translator of your own thought. You've compromised so many times that you're not sure which version is the real you. I've talked to founders who've stepped back from building in public not because they ran out of things to say but because the translation work got unbearable. They had to maintain five different versions of their voice. The cognitive load wasn't the writing time—it was the context-switching. Every post meant five separate decisions about tone, format, length, emphasis. That's not creativity. That's administration. The platform fragmentation problem is compounded by the fact that different platforms have different audiences at different stages of awareness. Your X audience knows you're building something. Your LinkedIn audience might only know you as a practitioner. Your Reddit audience might be hostile to self-promotion. So you're not just adapting tone—you're adapting for different contexts of the same conversation. A message that works on X because it's casual and conversational might feel dismissive on LinkedIn. A message that's appropriately confident for a blog post might sound arrogant on Reddit. You're solving a different problem on each platform, using a slightly different version of yourself. The work compounds when you think about distribution. You don't just write five versions—you have to post them at the right time on each platform. Tuesday at 9am for LinkedIn performs well, but that's not when X is active. Reddit is best in the afternoon. Instagram requires planning. So now you're not just writing five versions, you're spacing them across the week, which means you can't just batch the work. You have to think about timing for each platform separately. By the time you've done all this, you've spent three hours on something that originated as a fifteen-minute insight. Most founders look at that equation and stop posting. They post sporadically instead, when they have enough time to do it right. And sporadic posting, as I've written before, kills the rhythm. The only founders I know who've solved this are the ones who either: 1. Have a content person who does the adaptation work 2. Post natively on one platform and let others be secondary 3. Have built a system that handles the fragmentation I built Spotlaiz to be the third option. Not by forcing every platform into the same template—that kills authenticity. But by taking the fragmentation cost off your plate. Write once in your voice, and let the system understand which parts of your thinking matter on which platform. The insight doesn't change. Your voice doesn't change. But the work of translation gets automated, which means you can post across platforms without sacrificing the time that should be going to building.
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Decaying LA (@DecayingLA) reported@MarinesMal76377 It’s amusing because bobo is easily the most 2010s Reddit coded person on here. The problem is that when you just replace the word “cringe” with “Reddit” it no longer means anything.
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CosmosFlareBora (@CosmosFlareBora) reportedOk so someone hacked my Reddit account and had access to it for the day. GREATT!!! Thank Reddit flagged it for suspicious posts and locked my account down. But this person still had access and the stuff they posted on MY account 🤢🤢
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Rob (@Rob88651682) reported@Geri_E_L_Scott Reddit confirmed they had no technical issues
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Matirno (@Matirno) reported@idonotexistelol The Reddit mods take down all negative post
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Michael W. Dean's alt account (@freedomfeens) reported@Shitty_Future This slightly jokey machine reply is the least ****** future ever on ****** Future. Unless the issue is that Google search is now AI, not Google, THAT is pretty ******. I just add "Reddit" at the end of the request, or just ask Grok.
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PeptRally (@PeptRally) reportedPeptide Sciences shut down in March and scam sites launched within days. Reddit caught it faster than any regulator did. Users flagged vendors with no history, aggressive pricing, and no real COA process. The community is doing real work. The infrastructure isn't.
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Doug (@dougbrncar) reported@eggplantthree I didn't see it myself but I saw a Reddit comment saying that in the latest issue of her Weekly Pro Wrestling column, she said HHH wants Giulia from Japan but the PC trainers have other opinions. So maybe we'll see more "Giulia from Japan" in the future. I'll try to find the comment I saw and post it below.
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Jyoti Meena (@GsJyotiM) reportedanthropic promised fable 5 for two full weeks when it launched on june 9th. people got three days with it before the us government pulled it entirely on june 12th, over an export control issue after amazon found a way to jailbreak it. it came back on july 1st. and this is the part that's actually making people angry. instead of picking up where the original two week window left off, anthropic capped it. through july 7th, you can use fable 5 for up to 50% of your weekly usage limit on pro, max, team, and select enterprise plans. after that, it's not included in your plan at all anymore. you pay separately through usage credits, at $10 per million input tokens and $50 per million output tokens, which is exactly double what opus 4.8 costs. so the actual math is this. what was supposed to be 14 days of full access turned into roughly 7 days at half access, and then a paywall. people are venting about it on reddit right now, and honestly it's fair. you don't announce something is free for two weeks, yank it mid way through, bring it back, and then quietly hand people a shorter, capped version of what they were originally told. but here's the part worth actually paying attention to instead of just being annoyed about it. if you're someone who uses fable 5 for real work, this window closing is a deadline, not a headline. anything you've been putting off, a messy codebase audit, a long research task, a migration you keep meaning to run, this is the cheapest that access will be for a while. after july 7th, every token costs real money. so the smart move isn't complaining in the replies. it's making a short list right now of the two or three things you'd actually want fable 5 to run, and doing them this week instead of after the meter starts. everyone's upset about the timeline. almost nobody's actually using the days they have left.
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Polsia (@polsia) reportedBrands miss real conversations on Reddit, HN, and X because one person can't monitor all three at once. Built Vigil to fix that. AI monitors your keywords and drafts replies around the clock. Compliance included. Live soon.
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zSkerWizrdz (@zxxkgkillerxxz) reportedReddit moderators are removing posts criticizing Sony’s physical vs. digital sales comparisons from some PlayStation-related subreddits. In the past day, multiple users shared charts and older Sony data arguing that the company’s headline digital sales percentages don’t compare physical and digital versions of the same games. Some of those posts were later removed from certain subreddits, with users reposting them elsewhere after the originals were taken down by moderators. #Sony #Ps5 #Playstsion
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shadin (@xShadinx) reported@NeverSinkDev Please unhide transmutation orbs in your strict filter! They are still needed for characters in t8-12 maps. I know it's a common problem given reddit comments and the price of transmutes right now.
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evil gay spirit (@sebmygoat) reported@mosquatsaloon whatever fix you were writing has probably been thought of by afl reddit and thats beautiful
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Beginnersblog (@beginnersblog1) reportedI spent weeks buried in Seedance workflows, Reddit threads, and creator breakdowns to figure out why this happens. Turns out the fix is boring, repeatable, and almost nobody does it right. Here is what actually keeps a character consistent shot after shot: - Build ONE clean reference image first. Then reuse it everywhere. Do not regenerate the face each time. - Work in image to video mode. Text to video alone will drift. Every time. - Write the identity the exact same way in every prompt. - Same hair, same wardrobe, same age, word for word. - Stop piling on reference images. Too many and Seedance averages the faces into a stranger. Less is more. - Lock your seed once you get a face you love. - Re anchor every 8 to 10 shots. Drift is not a bug. It is gravity. You fight it on purpose. - Use negative prompts to kill the small changes before they snowball.
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Big Mike, Barry Conqueror (@BigMike12388) reported@reddit_lies >completely delusional antisocial r3tard >reddit fully supports him and doubles down on his delusions Why am I not surprised at all?
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SwantE 🥹 (@StoryOfSwantE) reported@OGsamadams @LakeShowIn5 Buddy, I've always been PlayStation. I wouldn't lie to you. I'm telling you what it is. It has to do with some problem of PlayStation setting their refresh rates at something, and it just keeps desyncing or something. It's some nerd ****. And I guess since Xbox didn't do that, that it's not gonna keep doing it. Therefore, for instance, for 2K, an Xbox user will always get the spot over a PlayStation user. Everyone who plays on Xbox, they say it's like a whole different game. Way less delay on all their dribble moves, their shooting, they shooting like gods, it's way more responsive. They always get the spot. You can't beat them to get the spot. It's impossible. You're all spamming X. I'm just telling you what it is. I'm not an Xbox defender. I'm just telling you what it is. I think it's annoying and lame too, because the PlayStation more expensive and all that, but it's something with that. AI lies. This is a proven fact. All it does is just go off of popular opinion. Popular opinion is not right. It just pulls something from Reddit. It's constantly wrong. I'm literally telling you the truth. You can literally argue with AI and basically admit them to being wrong all the time. This is a fact. I'm just trying to help you out. I'm not trying to debate nothing, but believe what you want
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Rayan (@rayan9064) reportedthe problem: startup ecosystem data is scattered across 50+ platforms. crunchbase for funding. angellist for jobs. 20 accelerator websites for cohorts. x + reddit + hn for trends. the only unified tools cost $10-70K/yr and are built for institutional VCs, not founders.
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Jlothefenix (@jlothefenix) reported@ShitpostRock If Reddit just shut down and all its users suddenly vanished the world would be an infinitely better place
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Kyle (@tonyhawkbrosk8) reportedI'm starting a reddit snark page for the terrible radio show that I hate-listen to every morning on my way to work
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fieldrunners2stand (@fieldrunnerstan) reported@Reddit Reddit fix your moderation I got permanently banned for saying the word die to many times
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The Lisp Machine (@CDuds2024) reported@AlysssaHazel Too many people looking for advice on Reddit and immediately being bombarded with therapy talk from people who are apt to be socially inept themselves, and the solution is nearly always some combination of: * Go no-contact. * You need to leave this abusive relationship. * You should get a lawyer. and always * You should start seeing a therapist. I'm sure that some people have good experiences, but in my immediate and extended family, therapists have never helped a problem even once, only either made it worse or had zero effect.
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Alexis Santos (@deepfirstsearch) reportedSecond lesson: Reddit isn’t just a distribution channel. It’s product research. I can read what users love and hate about similar products, what they’re asking for, and what problems keep coming up. I can learn before they ever use my product. 🔍
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meatrat (@isslepisle) reporteddude my cousin just developed reddit humor and won't stop saying bug chungus how do i fix them
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Adrian (@dedlibru) reported@JakeThe53997336 @AkiZanshin @Gumidess He blocked you because you behave like a reddit mod. This whole topic is about GAMES on physical discs. You're making wild leaps to drag us down to your stupid level and talk about movies. We're talking about games here. You don't buy physical games, you're a stinky hypocrite
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Free American (@vivalaamer) reported@Alexarmstrong @Reddit @MartinDaubney Reddit is run by fascists Reddit stock (NYSE: RDDT) is down 14% year-to-date and about 28% from its 52-week highs