Reddit status: access issues and outage reports
Problems detected
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 14: 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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Website Down | 13 hours ago |
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Website Down | 1 day ago |
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Website Down | 3 days ago |
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Errors | 4 days ago |
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Website Down | 5 days ago |
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Website Down | 10 days ago |
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Reddit Issues Reports
Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:
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𓌹ᄋ𓌺Scooby Doo's Plug ฏ๎๎๎๎๎๎๎๎๎๎๎๎๎๎๎๎๎๎๎o͓͓͓͓͓ (@DeepDickDadd) reportedThis is in my hometown. They doxxed him but I wasn’t able to get it before Reddit shut it down!! The community wants his soul.
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Nishan | AI SaaS Builder (@nishancodes) reported@rajibmondal_ @aryanlabde Primarily Reddit - I write problem specific content in my target niche subscription (the best way to get eyes where you want) For my B2B SaaS product, I do cold calling and cold mailing My favourite of all, X - Build in public. Write and engage consistently
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Jdm (@JDM_62) reported@Author_NancieN @PhiloEmpirica @RealPostFolder It was posted on reddit aio. She withheld a lot of stuff. She has 2 working pcs from her job. Her hobby pc still works just software is a bit slow. Her upgrade is almost 4k while to replace his non working ps was 600.
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Alex Wyatt | Meta Ad Creatives (@Alexwyatt47) reportedThe winning hook almost never comes from a team brainstorm. It comes from a frustrated customer on Reddit venting to strangers with no idea a brand was reading. One of our best performing hooks came directly from a review. Word for word. The customer described their frustration better than any copywriter could. 4 places to look before you brief a single ad: Customer reviews. Export 500+. Upload to Claude. Ask it to extract the exact language customers use to describe their problem. You'll have 15 angles in under an hour. Reddit. Search the pain point not your brand. Sort by upvotes. The most upvoted posts describe the most widespread frustration. Comment sections on competitor ads. This is where people say exactly what stopped them from buying. Every one of those is a hook. Your own ad account. Pull the last 90 days. Sort by spend. Write down what made the top 3 actually work. Most brands never look at this.
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Adedeji (@blvkcoal_x) reported@Oyinda_x_ Reddit gives multiple solutions to problems faced by people who have lived 50yrs from now.
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✡️Tradwife2222✡️ (@Tradwife2222) reported@grok @Dean_Woermer @grok can Canadians even afford to visit? Reddit says their economy is in real trouble.
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SDMcNeil (@SDMcNeil3) reported@reddit_lies Reddit would love a "game" that is really nothing but an animated movie. Watched A guy put the controller down and leave then come back. The game played itself.
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Waffle (@honkinwaffle) reported@strzibnyj You’re ignoring the biggest issue. User fragmentation. Reddit is not technically the best choice available anymore. It’s just the most popular. You need to convince the majority to leave the platform, most of which do not care about the issues you’ve raised.
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Hänz Solo (@culture_warz) reported@reddit_lies Reddit dictionary meaning in 2126 Reddit: a colab site in the early 21st century, located on the internet where the very weakest of men were able to communicate freely. It was shut down when the FBI raided all the mods simultaneously in a sweeping lollicon investigation.
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🌼Charon🌸 (@CharonsSails) reported@LibraryofLewd @LilithLovett Nah the reddit largely disavowed by the community (to the point there’s like 4 alternatives, the maincord, the companion app server, SEF, FA, a large coalition of places full of people who disavow the Reddit on premise) allegedly did that, and diff 10 is mad easy.
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Muhammad Shaiz (@MShaiz9) reported@bold_Ocean_ That quote hit hard. Every founder feels this. Your users are already on Reddit and X, openly complaining about the exact problem you solve. You don't find them. You just show up where they're already talking
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Jeff Wells (@JeffWellsRigInt) reportedI was just reading some comments on Reddit and saw many vague posts about how Gordon had been important to them, but he'd regrettably gone crazy in recent years. What the hell...? Oh, yeah: Reddit. Problem is, he'd been right about covid.
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Magomed Kurbaitaev (@kurbaitaev) reportedi used to think a big audience would solve the athlete economics problem. ten years later i know exactly how wrong i was. the myth: build the audience, the money follows. the reality: a 20-year-old fighter posted on reddit this week with 60k tiktok followers and 250k+ youtube views, asking strangers how to make $500 a month. his platforms paid him nothing. local coaching is saturated. sponsors only sign the top 1%. what's missing is the layer between "i have fans" and "i can pay rent." a way for the fan to fund the athlete directly, without going through a brand, a league, or a creator fund. every functional creator economy already has this layer. patreon for writers. substack for journalists. twitch subs for streamers. athletes are still waiting for theirs at scale.
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Alchemist (@Cahleom) reported@ToriatheistTori You understand the Bible sometimes is just reporting on terrible things people did, right? Not everything in there is a description of what you should do. It is quite clear in fact. Have you ever read it, or do you just grab nonsense memes from reddit?
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Zero (@Abis00169232) reported@AnipokeScaling @MrMystery992 Nah, Mystery I think blocked me, I just went down a rabbithole from something adjacent and it led me down to your "Diantha is the strongest" argument, which I remembered someone on Reddit parroted. Even though there are flaws in said interpretation.
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Official Layoff (@LayoffAI) reportedAMAZON DOING SILENT LAYOFFS RIGHT NOW 🚨 No CEO memo. No press release. No WARN Act filing. Just employees showing up on Reddit saying their roles were eliminated. A lot of them. This is exactly what @PlumbNick predicted in October 2025. Amazon announced 30,000 cuts. Backlash was massive. They walked it back to 14,000. Still too loud. His words: "I'd A/B test the message and fine-tune the balance all the way down until Americans have nothing left." Now in May 2026, they seem to have found the formula. Say nothing. Eliminate roles quietly. Keep each site under 100 cuts so WARN Act never triggers. No filing means no public record. No record means no headline. Do we know 100% they are doing this? No, and that is the point. The WARN Act requires 60-day notice for mass layoffs. But if you stagger the cuts, spread them across sites, and never use the word "layoff," you never technically trigger it. Is it legal? The law says deliberate structuring to avoid thresholds is a violation. But enforcement is through private lawsuits, and the penalty is 60 days back pay. For Amazon, that's a rounding error. Meanwhile, they are the #1 abuser of H-1B in the entire country since 2017.
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Lindsay (@UniverslBeauty) reported@JohnSmithatyn @mattngigglesb, Nina didn’t have a problem with you. She was upset because you believed what people said about her so she said IN COMPARISON that it would be like her believing what was on Reddit - she said she didn’t believe it but you didn’t hear her because you were upset. None of your friends were nice enough to tell you what really happened. They like you fighting with Nina and donlod. If you don’t believe me go back to the space and listen
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R.I.P. RIPLYDIATÁR (@volkmardeadguy) reportedIt's weird people describe issues with starfiekd and they're literally either verbatim saying a top reddit comment, or the same thing everyone has said about every Bethesda game (they get smaller in scale and streamlined more and more)
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kashiba ü oomf | get yo clothes from website pls.. (@aeishady) reported@Oyinda_x_ reddit simply bans you for being new and trying to market there .. and here you just have to be brave enough cuz everyone has a problem here
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Tom 🧰 (@BuildWithTom) reportedreddit is blocking mobile web to force app downloads. next step is walled garden login gates. the open web is being dismantled one product decision at a time.
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puka / celeste 🍉 (@pristinepuka) reported@SLAYER98bbh @dazzlingstarrzy Reddit is down the hall and to the left
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wasupscott 💬 (@wasupscott) reported@InternetH0F Bro, you sounding like Reddit. 💀 "NYC inherited a ~ $12 billion multi-year projected budget gap (FY2026–27) when Mamdani took office. His administration has now proposed a balanced FY2027 budget, closing the immediate gap through state aid, revenue growth, efficiencies, and reserves. The original $12B was a projected multi-year hole, not a single-year cash deficit. Long-term structural issues remain, and some fixes rely on one-time measures and optimistic assumptions."
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Goutham Vinjamuri (@GouthamVin1) reportedI found the solution to a problem I'm having on a 13 year old reddit post, which gave a link to an even older webpage. And the link wasn't working anymore. I managed to find the content on that webpage in the waybackmachine. I freaking love the internet!
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Joey (@jo_juice) reported@BlackHokageClip I will say, the games are cheap as hell. You be getting whole collections for like 10$. But if you’re stupid like me you always run into some technical glitch that you gotta get on YouTube or Reddit to figure out. Haha!
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✌️☮️ (@kpj__24) reportedRespectfully, this show is terrible. I would say something on Reddit but Food Network and the ‘supporters’ would rip me to shreds. #Chopped #ChoppedCastaways
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Nebula ✨ VGen Commissions open ✨ (@NebulaSpectry) reportedI asked for a techsupport, in a techsupport subreddit, about my disc player and got downvote. Why ?? 😭 The player can turn on, I just have an issue with the "No Valid Disc" and wait advice and know If I can fix it myself 😭 #reddit
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Josiah Klegg (@LinkumSojer) reported@PatriotTho42773 @dixie_cavalier Reddit is down the hall, *****.
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Uncle Pas (@8EightPillars) reported@MackNSweetJones I saw on reddit he also had a case in Mississippi…his sister also looked to be out there…some kids just be retarded and terrible decision makers man idk lol
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Moonbearserker2 (@moonbearserker2) reported@reddit_lies I like how he got down voted for expecting his gf to not be a blatant *****. Where else but reddit?
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〰️ (@xDripifyx) reported@pingwinnerxd @coolmathgame_ @Guy128That only retards are people like you and this reddit posting loser. dont ******* stare down the camera like a shotgun barrel. GO OUTSIDE and get a photo of you HAVING A HOBBY. do literally anything else than stare into the soul of the camera with the most chopped haircut ever