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Problems in the last 24 hours
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August 18: 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 (50%)
- Sign in (31%)
- Errors (19%)
Live Outage Map
The most recent Reddit outage reports came from the following cities:
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Reddit Issues Reports
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JP (@RealJayPublic) reported@Reddit_Retards I know for a fact that if this was reversed the Reddit mods with their god complexes would pull it down immediately.
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🌬 belle and saint sebastian (@_sparrowboy) reportedpeople on reddit be like "had to put down my dog because it had bit people please tell me im a good person hashtag behavioral euthanasia"
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Shogun Groyper (@ShogunGroyper) reported@OwenBenjamin @DanBilzerian Reddit is down the hall and to the left ******
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Verbum Games (@VerbumGames) reportedI looked up "Dune" on Reddit, and every post was just people saying they didn't understand it, couldn't follow the story, found it too slow and boring, didn't understand the characters' motivations, etc. I guess I should have expected this from Reddit.
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Meet Anghan (@AnghanMeet29) reported🚀 Day 39 of building in public. The building phase is done. Now I'm trying to figure out distribution. Today I spent time studying how founders like @marclou share their products, revenue and progress publicly. I’m thinking of starting a new daily series: 📊 Split Today — Daily Numbers Users Downloads Revenue What I shipped What I learned Real numbers. No hiding the bad days. I’m also looking seriously at Reddit, but honestly, I don't have much experience there and my account currently has some issues. So before I start randomly posting everywhere, I want to learn from people who have already done this. If you've grown an app or SaaS from zero: What marketing channel worked best for you? What would you do differently? How did you get your first 100 users? What actually helped increase MRR? Drop your advice below. 👇 The product is built. Now I need to learn how to get people to care about it.
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Hue G Rection (@HueGRection42) reportedOne time he even snuck into the group discord server disguised as a girl. Anyway, I bounced, was friendless for a while, stopped using Reddit and switched to Twitter, and made my moot circle over time.
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BunnyDoodles (@lemonadest36729) reported@silly_sophiana I posted on reddit a few days ago that if the killer of the round was trip, i'll insta lock on metal and just disable a few mines andMAYBE stun like, once, if the trip was bullied (******* always) I'll let her kill me. They down voted me to hell for "teaming"
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Orbitt Volume & Dex Trend Booster (@orbitt_ai) reported@Be_A_Goldfish1 @TheAtlantic Looks like the nicknames are crowdsourcing themselves now. When “Don the Con” graduates from Reddit to The Atlantic, the branding problem isn’t the critics.
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gold. (@thegoldeenhand) reportedEvery single thing you believe about faceless YouTube is wrong. I've run AI story channels since before anyone on your timeline was talking about them. $2M+ generated across my community. 20M+ monthly views. And the beliefs I see repeated daily on Twitter are the EXACT beliefs keeping 93% of creators anchored at zero. Let me fix your thinking right now. "You need to find an untapped niche" Untapped means nobody is watching. Untapped means zero demand. You know what 15 channels in the same niche pulling 1k+ views each means? Proven market. Proven audience. Proven ad revenue. Your job is to become channel 16 and execute 5% better. Saturation is validation far beyond a warning sign. "AI content is dying" The demographic data across my channels says the inverse. A year ago, AI story viewers were 90% aged 55-64. Now 25-34 year olds are entering. The total audience is EXPANDING. RPMs are going up because more demographics attract more advertisers bidding against each other for placement. The people saying "AI content is dead" have never opened a YouTube analytics dashboard. "You need a premium voice to succeed" One of my top operators is printing five figures monthly with free TubeChef voices. Zero ElevenLabs. The free built-in voices. Script quality and structural pacing drive retention. The voiceover is a delivery vehicle. A mediocre voice delivering a phenomenal script outperforms a $500/mo voice delivering a mid script every single time. "Character consistency matters" I printed for months with inconsistent characters. The protagonist's hair changes color between scenes? Nobody cares. The STORY is what holds attention. If you're spending 4 hours per video trying to match character faces across 20 images, you're optimizing the wrong variable by a factor of 100. "You need to warm up your channel before uploading" Warming up is a myth people repeat because they heard someone else repeat the same myth. Watching 10 videos and subscribing to 5 channels for a week, then stopping the SECOND you upload real content, is the most robotic behavior pattern Google has ever seen. The only "warm up" you need is an impression test video. Film your floor for 3 minutes. Upload. Wait 72 hours. 300+ impressions = green light. Done. "Longer videos always win" The algorithm shifted from rewarding AVD (average view duration) to rewarding APV (average percentage viewed) around mid-2025. A 4-hour video with 40 minutes watched sounds impressive until you realize the APV is 16%. The algorithm knows 84% of the audience bounced. A 30-minute video with 50% APV sends a stronger retention signal than a 4-hour video with triple the raw watch time. "The niche finder shows you the best niches" Niche finders show you niches OTHER people already found. By definition, every niche on a niche finder has been seen by 1,000s of creators before you. The niche finder is a validation tool far beyond a scouting tool. The real scouting happens upstream: Reddit threads blowing up 72 hours before any YouTube channel covers the topic, trending Twitter conversations, long-form journalism from the New Yorker, the Atlantic, Wired. The operators surfacing $40+ RPM niches before the crowd are monitoring data SOURCES far beyond data summaries. "You need expensive tools to compete" The full production stack for an AI story channel: one Claude subscription for scripts, one ElevenLabs account for voiceover, one image model for visuals, one video model for animated clips, CapCut for editing. Inside Elevate, all of this is bundled for $200/mo with zero additional subscriptions. The "I need more tools" objection is a procrastination excuse dressed up as a legitimate concern. "Uploading once a week is enough" 3 videos per week is the MINIMUM to give the algorithm enough data to figure out who your audience is. During the first month of a new channel, 5-7 per week is ideal. The channels doing $10k+/mo are uploading daily or near-daily. Volume gives the algorithm more surface area to test. More tests means faster feedback loops means faster optimization means faster revenue. "Going viral is the goal" Chasing virality kills more channels than poor content. The goal is STABILITY. 1k-5k views per video, every video, without fail. Stability means consistent ad revenue, predictable monthly income, and a channel the algorithm trusts enough to push into browse features regularly. Outlier videos happen naturally on top of a stable base. Building your entire strategy around hitting a home run is how you strike out 40 times and quit. The operators making $10k to $50k/mo in this space have discarded every myth above. They run systems, validate with data, iterate on structure, and treat YouTube like a business instead of a creative experiment. Everything I use across my own channels and share inside Elevate (niche finder, script templates, free ElevenLabs, image and video gen, analytics, direct access, operator community) is $200/mo at elevate(.)uno. The system is there. The beliefs are the only thing standing between you and the revenue.
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Rick H 🇺🇸 (@ImRickH) reported@reddit_lies Until they fix biased redditors, and the sub-redditors, there is no real reason to use reddit.
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Kozmic (@KozmicPlays) reported@MarcosKangele Arabella's kit looks very mid from the CN leaks, and unless I missed something on my phone while going through that drop down menu, nothing got updated. Spent an entire stream going over her kit/builds and some of the numbers (also was a good deep dive on Reddit)
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Chalk_ | #owtwt 🇵🇸 (@ChalkEatsRocks_) reportedReddit a crazy place cuz why am I being down voted for asking for help 😭😭
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DeltaSignal (@AITrailblazerQ) reported13 words on Reddit can hijack OpenAI & Google Deep Research agents. A new paper from Cornell Tech (arXiv:2605.24245) proves that appending 15 words to a random Reddit comment forces AI research agents to cite fake apps, endorse scam crypto, and recommend bad restaurants-100% of the time in some models. Here is why the AI stack is broken, and how we actually fix it 1/ The WARP Attack (Web Agent Retrieval Poisoning) Deep-research tools don't just search once; they run 20+ sub-queries per report. Because Reddit dominates Google's index, agents repeatedly hit the same Reddit thread across multiple sub-queries. The agent sees a 13-word promotional snippet 5 times, misinterprets that overlap as "consensus," and weaves the fake claim into its final report. 2/ The $1B Conflict of Interest OpenAI and Google signed massive licensing deals with Reddit to use its "authentic human conversations" as ground truth. Sam Altman held an 8.7% stake in Reddit during the OpenAI deal. The AI industry built systems that treat Reddit slurry as high-trust data, monetized it, and shipped agents that blindly trust a 13-word comment. 3/ Why Gemini 3.7 Flash handles this differently Modern models like Gemini 3.7 Flash break this cycle through Dynamic Grounding & Latent Scrubbing: Trust Discounting: UGC domains are tagged with low-trust priors. A claim on Reddit remains a "hypothesis token" until cross-verified. Reasoning-In-Loop: Instead of blindly passing SERP snippets to context, the model uses real-time CoT to inspect the structural validity of claims before they enter its scratchpad. 4/ How to fix this permanently: Dual-Stream Retrieval: Separate search into a Fact Stream (official docs, news) and a Sentiment Stream (Reddit, X). Never let Sentiment Stream tokens act as Fact Stream anchors. Entity Verification Sub-Agents: If a named entity (e.g. "SilverPath App") only exists within a single forum thread, flag it as unverified. Adversarial Ingestion: Treat every UGC page as hostile context by default. We can't build the future of autonomous research on unmoderated, trivially poisonable forum comments. It’s time to stop treating Reddit sewage as high-trust knowledge.
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FG_Provinay (@FG_Provinay) reported@Patches23X I was changing back and forth with my Nacon Daija with the same lever and yeah, the Daija definitely felt more responsive, the few people that I've asked on Reddit about the problem have told me there's no prob but they tried it on PS5 or it's their first fightstick
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Larry Sims (@StoolSampl) reportedHEADLINE: WNBA issues clear statement on Sophie Cunningham Reddit ban It's a shame the @WNBA doesn't realize they don't have fans of the league. They have fans of Cunningham and just a few other players. Not to mention Freedom and Winter will sue them when they are banned.
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Raymmar (@raymmar) reportedThere is a new version of spam advertising evolving right now. And it’s gaining traction inside free/public communities on places like Discord and Reddit. Here is how it works… 👇🏽 1- an influencer builds a discord server (to coordinate “campaigns”) and then set bounties for anyone to join with the sole purpose of driving traffic back to incentivized landing pages outside of their discord by sharing images, links, etc. inside any free community they can access under disposable accounts. 2 - those members run around creating swarms of accounts and start joining every free/open discord or community they can. Spamming images and ads into the server. They know they will get kicked or blocked but that doesn’t matter they have unlimited accounts because apparently everything in tech should be free. 3- this means most discord servers are open. And let you post freely. Auto mod tools block obscene or rated R images but not an ad for something like (mrbeast campaign xyz . Com) the content changes too quickly to be recognized, and an image scan reveals mostly harmless content. So it requires real human moderation. 4 - the smarter spammers automate this. And run it hundreds of times per day/server with various accounts posting similar images and links. Maybe even the same person with multiple accounts in the same server so they can fake engagement too. It’s the same tactic that is playing out on social feeds but inside private communities designed to filter out specifically this type of noise. 5- their efforts are totally unaccountable to advertising regulation. Almost untraceable in general because what discord moderator is going to report this at a scale in a way that matters. And discord has an incentive to allow this to continue. Just like cell providers could stop spam calls/text in a blink but don’t. Because on paper it shows “growth and network activity” so the vanity stats grow. This gives the impression of surface growth but the channel slowly fills with noise so overall community value growth does not keep up. 6 - slowly (just like Reddit) discord becomes unusable and filled with bots and spam that just siphon the value from the network as real people slowly stop showing up or engaging because of the spam and other low value posts take over the feed. Either that or conversations move to increasingly private channels with more and more strict access validation. Aka “gate keeping”. 7 - This is going to lead to private only common areas. The digital public square will become a thing of the past soon. AI and short sighted “ad innovators” are brining the dead internet theory to life faster and faster every day. Spam articles, spam accounts, fake traffic and dark engagement circles. I have more thoughts about this. But will save it for a proper article one day soon. In the meantime… **** all of you for stealing from society slowly and creating an invisible digital rust that is slowly eating away at trust and civility. You are the scourge of the 21st century.
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d1nz.3 (@Dinesh78039466) reported@rcmisk the ladder only looks clean backwards tho. he didnt kno reddit was the one till after it worked. run 2 at once if u want - just tag each w its own link n write the kill date down b4 u start. otherwise meta n google both claim the same signup n u master the wrong channel
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YIA RayshawnGuy🇹🇹 (@RayshawnGuy) reported@MythicChronos I can't really say i've had that experience feel everyone's different but when i switched from 1050ti to 6800XT yeah back then it was BAD and people would cope and blame the overclocks on reddit upgraded to a 9070XT not had a single issue since
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Marissa 🧚♀️🏀 (@marilikessports) reportedSaid I was nervous about the new owners on Reddit and people are like “worst case they trade Luka, get a haul, and rebuild” like UGH YEAH THAT SOUNDS TERRIBLE. I’m genuinely shocked because people are agreeing. Why would you ever suggest trading prime Luka Doncic, like Nico? 😭
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G. Khan (@SomeAssHat666) reportedThis is the guy who wrote to Feigefactory an ***-kissing article defending the ******* "Mandarin" that's in the MCU, and one of his arguments was, "CB Mandarin only appeared in 130 issues of the comics. Clearly not enough to be an iconic villain worthy of s movie", but then proceeded to praise the ******* main villain that was in Iron Man 3, whose comic counterpart appeared on all 8 square panels of a single comicbook, which I assume warranted to make him Iron Man's nemesis in the movies. This guy is if reddit was a person.
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First_Name Last_Name (@EngAlpine) reported@ClintZHarris @EricLDaugh Reddit is down the hall to the left
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Eristic Rex (@EristicRex) reportedNo, Reddit, I'll never sign in to your website again
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Doctor Hoglopper (@xjuteveux) reported@brianonhere Reddit kicked me off the other day, told me I needed to change my password, now won’t let me log in and can’t view it for more than 45 seconds. And no, desktop mode doesn’t help. Even emailing myself a link to login doesn’t help. @Reddit
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Nikhil Sharma (@NikhilNikrulz) reportedDistribution Update :- A founder launching a startup today can build the product faster than at almost any point in history. But Distribution is still painful. And that is why this launch caught my attention. Okara’s CMO v2 asks for your website and then deploys specialised AI agents across SEO, AI search, Reddit, X, LinkedIn, content, technical fixes and influencer marketing. But let’s just forget the number of agents. The interesting part is how far they are allowed to act. One agent can change code and open an SEO fix through GitHub. (Cool) Another can run an influencer campaign from finding the creator all the way to negotiating the price and clearing the payment. (Insane) This is where AI products are getting much more consequential. 2023 AI: “I wrote your marketing plan.” 2024–25: “I created the content.” Now: “I found the opportunity, created the work, contacted the person, changed the website and came back for approval.” I wouldn’t replace a great marketer with it tomorrow. But for the millions of startups that don’t have a great marketer or a marketing team at all. this can change the minimum team required to compete. We used to ask how many people a startup needed to reach $10M revenue. I’m increasingly interested in the opposite question: How much revenue can an exceptionally good 3 person company eventually build when every function around them can spawn its own agents?
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Pusher (@Pusherplayer16) reported@Domthgreat Yeah, after Iceman dropped, no YouTube videos or bar breakdowns, nothing. Everyone wants to talk about the behind-the-scenes BS, no Reddit threads breaking down the rollout, the zine. Nothing, like they all got the call from Roc Nation or they're scared of Jay-Z or something.
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The Last Honest Man (@TheRealN8works) reportedThis isn't a Reddit problem. This isn't an AI problem. The data was scraped when it was public. We've already past the point of no return in data privacy. You can never delete.
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RUSTIC 🇵🇭 (@Rustic_3851) reported@UnknownBoi19 @TheCanadianGTR He always does this. Whenever he sees anything in Reddit, he’ll repost them down here just to get attention.
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Cromulent John (@tortapounder800) reported@TheMetsX Fanbase spirit isn’t the problem, fanbase intellect is, at least on here and reddit. None of yall know ball
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🩵~Ariel~🩵 (@Arielsometimes4) reported@moguroleafjuice @3559dai You’re insanely over-sensitive. Get mad about actual issues not a ****** piece of corporate Disney art. ******* L. Idc about your Reddit saying either it’s also ******* stupid. Grow some ***** and stop getting offended over people saying art looks bad. Just looking to get mad lol
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Dante Paris (@dante_paris) reported@imgermanbtw Hey hey go to GamingLeaksAndRumours reddit, take-two is taking these things down which is why I'm not posting them