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 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 (60%)
- Errors (29%)
- Sign in (11%)
Live Outage Map
The most recent Reddit outage reports came from the following cities:
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Website Down | 1 day ago |
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Sign in | 2 days ago |
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Errors | 3 days ago |
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Website Down | 6 days ago |
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Website Down | 7 days ago |
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Reddit Issues Reports
Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:
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ℑ𝔡𝔦𝔬𝔱𝔓𝔯𝔦𝔫𝔠𝔢 (@PrincepsStultus) reported@VBMillennial @davverista Reddit is down the hall. Come back when you’re ready to roll with the big boys. I recommend starting with Remedial Logic 101. Don’t bother responding.
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♧Maxy#N0l1☆ (@SkyshineMoon) reported@HimeCrime_ From what i heared and seen a picture of the Pressure Reddit server celebrating painters face being back, so yeah it's back, along with a badge that got remove but is now back, i think it was the "Glutton For Punishment"
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Charlie (@CharlieiOS) reported@SodiqAkand3766 I've actually not had many issues with post removal, it's just most people on Reddit are against any marketing or apps Except on dedicated app subreddits
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Joseph Kisarale (@forgiven311) reported@AnthropicAI 3 days, 5 browsers, called my bank, contacted support, still can't upgrade my Claude to Max. Payment fails every time. Stripe throws 400 errors before the charge even attempts. Iam not alone, Reddit is full of the same complaint. When will this be fixed
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PainMap.io (@painmapio) reportedReddit browsing isn't research. It tells you what people are complaining about. It doesn't tell you what they'd pay to fix, who the competitors are, why those competitors are failing, or what to charge. That's the gap between browsing and validation. That's the gap PainMap fills.
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Sloup (@soupiersous) reportednot cooked; i searched it up on reddit and apparently like 1000 other people are having the same problem recently windows security might have a bug or something
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Lineup and Wait (@whereshammy87) reported@JoshYoung Professing self-imposed confusion is such a corporate dbag copout. They're going to issue 1bn new GME shares. That's his gameplan. And he is hoping the reddit retard army will absorb soak it up.
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Michael @ Upstack Data (@michael_upstack) reportedReddit has quietly become one of the best-kept secrets in DTC. CPCs are 50–70% lower than Meta. The platform hit 108M daily active users. Buyers convert at 2.5x the spend of other channels. And ChatGPT's and Claude's shopping research now pulls answers directly from Reddit threads, which means every dollar you spend there is doing double duty. Brands like Cotopaxi, Cozey, and MeUndies are already pulling 2.5x–4x ROAS on Dynamic Product Ads. But there's a problem most brands don't see. Reddit's browser pixel is losing more than 30% of conversion events. Ad blockers, iOS restrictions, cross-device journeys. The algorithm can only optimize on what it can see. That's why Reddit officially recommends running the Pixel + Conversions API together. Server-side CAPI bypasses the browser entirely and sends matched, hashed identity back to Reddit so it can actually do its job. The hard part has always been the identity layer. CAPI is just a pipe. If you don't know who your visitors actually are, the data going through it isn't worth much. That's where we come in. Today we shipped Upstack's Reddit Pixel integration. The same identity graph that already enriches signal for Meta, Google, TikTok, and Klaviyo now flows into Reddit's Conversions API. Same campaigns. Cleaner data. Higher EMQ. Better ROAS. If you're running Reddit ads in 2026, Upstack has you covered
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Jungle Carbine (@JungleCarbine) reported@RickDeVos RS was utter trash by 1990. Their only remaining readers are deviant boomer ex-hippies with Hallucinogen Persisting Perception Disorder & fat lib Karens with problem glasses who believe it makes them hip. A Reddit listicle carries more weight.
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Bird on Fire 🔥 (@nobodyknows2322) reportedActually, how much of the Dem staffer problem is downstream of *them* being 'trained on Reddit', as if were?
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Miss Rose 🥀 (@MsRose26) reported@ruinedforrose every time i login to reddit i regret it lmao
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Amaury PR (@AmauryGrowthPR) reported from San Francisco, CaliforniaYesterday I fired a YC P26 founder mid-call. And I'd do it again. He reached out after I messaged him about Reddit and TikTok growth. Replied within a minute (literally !!). Booked a Zoom. Then showed up 44 minutes late. Barely said sorry. I already work with YC founders. I know how slammed these people are. My calls are always short and straight to the point. No fluff, no wasted time. I respect that founders are busy. So I gave him the benefit of the doubt and we got into it. Oh huge mistake! The guy would not let me finish a single sentence. Not one. I'd start answering his question and he'd cut me off with... the same question. At some point he asked for my Reddit booklet (DM me if you want to have a look at it too btw). I sent it over. He asked about pricing. "Check page 20." He asked again. "Page 20." Again. "It's on page 20." FOUR times. The budget (10k) was not even the issue, he told me so himself. Honestly, I don't know if he ever opened that doc lol Eventually I just told him straight: I don't do business with people who don't listen. A founder who can't sit through a 10-15-minute call without steamrolling everyone in the room will be a nightmare to actually work with. He was shocked. Mumbled some BS. I left the call. He revoked me on LinkedIn immediately after. Arrogant, condescending, and couldn't let me finish a sentence. Showing up 40 minutes late and acting like he was doing me a favor the whole time. The product was genuinely AMAZING (I wish I could tell you about it, it's easily one of the most interesting things I've seen come out of this batch). The budget was there. Some people just aren't worth working with.
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Rashi Umapathi (@rashiumapathi) reported@khushiirl New problems pop up every day. Look at what people are complaining about in niche Reddit threads. Goldmine.
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Aman (@BeejiDaPutt) reported@grok @adidas Can you check if this is a regular quality issue across the internet with the Adidas Evo SL I checked reddit, Quora and a few other forums. What's your take?
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Taiwo Oladosu (@TaiTechSolution) reported@xylo_business @X I’ve worked with a lot of founders and startup owners specifically around Reddit growth. Most people go wrong in the same 3 areas: they focus on finding “easy” subreddits (they don’t really exist long-term) they post too early without building trust inside the community and they treat Reddit like a broadcast channel instead of a conversation system From experience, the strongest results come from: targeting the right problem-driven threads, not just communities building visibility through comments first, then posts and aligning content with what people are already asking, not what the product does Starting your own subreddit can work, but only after you already have external traffic feeding into it — otherwise it stays empty for a long time. That’s why I focus on helping founders structure Reddit properly so they actually get traction instead of just activity.
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Dood Skull (@DoodSkull42699) reported@crunchyroll There are audio sync problems on many of the dubbed episodes of one piece on your platform. Ive put in tickets, and so have other users on reddit dating back months ago. Fix this.
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Olamide Olaseni | Ecom Web Dev | Social Media Pro (@olaayconnect) reported@sivaisha219 @TTrimoreau Clean idea, privacy-first messaging with no login is a strong angle, especially for users tired of data-heavy apps. This kind of simplicity + privacy focus could get interesting feedback in Reddit privacy/Android communitie
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son (@sonseniorr) reportedI (29F) never planned to turn my boring open-plan office into a low-budget horror movie, but here we are. Throwaway for obvious reasons, half my team doom-scrolls Reddit on their lunch breaks. It started six months ago when Greg (our 40-something account manager who wears the same navy tie every single day) kept “borrowing” my noise-canceling headphones and returning them with one earcup slightly warm and smelling like pickles. I let it slide. Then I caught him on the security cam at 2:17 a.m. (I’d left my phone charging overnight) licking the microphone. Not tasting it. Full tongue, slow, reverent licks, like it was a holy relic. I should have reported him. Instead I did something way weirder. I bought a second, identical pair of headphones. Every night for a month I left the fake pair on my desk and took the real ones home. While Greg was busy French-kissing my decoy mic, I was in my apartment recording myself whispering his name, his kids’ names, his dead mom’s maiden name (Google is a hell of a drug), and the exact lyrics to the Nickelback song he sings under his breath when he thinks no one’s listening. Then I started leaving the recordings on loop inside the fake headphones. Just loud enough that when he put them on the next morning he’d hear… himself. Being known. At first he looked confused. Then he started leaving me tiny offerings: a single cashew on my keyboard, a Post-it with “I SEE YOU” written in his blood (turns out it was red Sharpie, but still). The whole floor noticed. People started calling the ghost “Pickle Mick.” Someone made a Slack channel. Greg began coming in wearing a tinfoil collar “to block the frequency.” Last Thursday he cornered me by the printer and whispered, “I know it’s you, but I also know it’s not you. The voice told me we’re supposed to get married in the server room on the night of the blood moon. It said you’d understand.”I laughed like it was a joke. He didn’t blink. Tonight the blood moon is literally happening. The entire team is staying late for “emergency quarterly planning.” Greg just asked me if I wanted to “review the final slides” alone in the server room. I said yes.I’m writing this from the bathroom stall because I can hear him out there humming Nickelback again, except now the song has my middle name in it and I never told anyone my middle name. So yeah. I created a supernatural office stalker out of petty headphone revenge, and now I’m about to either get proposed to by a man who tongue-worships electronics… or I’m about to become the final scene in whatever cursed lore we’ve accidentally summoned. Either way, if I don’t post this now, the next update might be written in red Sharpie. Pray for me. Or don’t. I kind of deserve whatever’s coming.
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ibby (@StatueofIBBertY) reported@0xdoug @zephyr_z9 The think that confuses me about web scraping also - is I *assume* it's not random. So why not an intermediary layer that *reduces* the size of the corpus you're trying to scrape? E.g. reddit. A post with a web scraper attached to my laptop's chrome is 1.8M tokens. With the reddit api it's 35k tokens. If using Opus, the raw scraping is almost $10 of tokens PER PAGE. The API brings that down to 17.5 cents. On Deepseek that's half a penny.
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asinusadlyram (@EHawk753) reported@handleitgrips Reddit is down the hall, pha ggot
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Alexander Quotes (@ThePenOfQuotes) reportedblows my mind there are people that say Grok isn't a trustworthy source but have no problem using wikipedia or asking some random guy on Reddit
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Screen Brief (@ScreenBrief) reported@biancalovesfilm Typical for there to be a freak *** glitch when the reddit comes
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Torquemada (@1970Torquemada) reported@MReco12 @WaveRoyal @jk_rowling So we're now down to 'if you don't respond to my claims then I'm right'. How are things on reddit in 2016?
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Eddie (@ak48503) reported@Drodshingle @TaraBull Go down bluesky or reddit rabbit holes and you might be shocked
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Ravena Blakely (@RavenaBlakely) reportedIs reddit helpful in your opinion? After reading an idea on how to fix clothes on there, totally can be helpful
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Todd Witteles (@ToddWitteles) reported@TheEcho13 You’re responding to a horrible engagement bait account which does nothing but post screenshots of terrible Reddit ragebait. That’s what we are even doing here.
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S Tominaga (Aka Dr Craig Wright) (@CsTominaga) reportedOne must admire the modern habit of mistaking repetition for truth. It is an economy of thought so efficient that it dispenses with thought altogether. One reads a thing on Reddit, sees it echoed by Grok or some other mechanical oracle, and—presto—the illusion of knowledge is complete. It is rather like hearing a rumour in a crowded salon and concluding, by sheer volume of whispers, that it has acquired the dignity of fact. The present absurdity, that identity may be proved by a cryptographic signature, belongs to this same species of intellectual theatre. It is a claim so delicately circular that it collapses under the faintest pressure of reason. A signature, in both law and logic, is not the origin of identity but its instrument. It presupposes what it cannot create. One does not sign in order to become someone; one signs because one already is. To suggest otherwise is to invert centuries of jurisprudence with the casual arrogance of a pamphleteer. Identity is antecedent. It is established through context, attribution, recognition—through a web of relations that precede any mark, whether ink on parchment or bits in a digital register. The signature, whether penned or computed, is merely an assertion tied to that prior identity. Without that foundation, it is nothing more than an elegant flourish—convincing perhaps, but entirely unmoored. The cryptographic enthusiast, clutching a private key as though it were a birth certificate, imagines possession to be equivalent to personhood. It is a charming delusion. Possession proves only possession. It demonstrates control over a mechanism, not the nature of the individual who wields it. A thief may sign as deftly as a sovereign; the mathematics is indifferent to morality, to law, and—most inconveniently—to identity itself. Thus the argument reduces itself to a tautology dressed in technical costume: “This signature proves I am me, because I made the signature that proves I am me.” It is the sort of reasoning that would be laughed out of any serious court, yet it flourishes in digital discourse where assertion often masquerades as authority. The law, that most unfashionable of disciplines in certain technological circles, has already settled the matter with admirable clarity. Identity is not conjured by the act of signing; it is verified against it. The signature is evidence, not genesis. To confuse the two is not innovation—it is error, albeit one repeated with sufficient enthusiasm to appear, to the inattentive, like insight. In the end, the claim that cryptography can prove identity is less a proposition than a performance. It is sustained not by logic, but by the comforting illusion that complexity confers legitimacy. Yet even the most intricate cipher cannot escape a simple truth: one must first exist as someone before one can sign as anyone. Anything else is not merely mistaken—it is, in the most polite terms available, disingenuous.
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Adech Global Enterprises (@Beloved2026) reportedPrompt: "Act like a world-class researcher who meticulously checks their work. List the top 5 urgent and painful problems faced by [target customer], with supporting evidence from Reddit, Amazon, Facebook, and other real sources. For each problem, show me the exact language people use to describe the pain, where they're already trying to solve it, and what existing solutions are failing them." If people aren't already complaining about it, the idea is dead.
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Mankosmash (@Mankosmash) reported@cremieuxrecueil The original formulation wasn't from Tim 🙄 he stole it from Reddit & it was first posted in like 2023. I saw it a year or two ago on here. The word "everyone" did not appear in any version until Tim added it. If you interpret the thought experiment that way, it's stupid & tests nothing. Which is an outcome the blues are fine with because they don't like truly difficult problems that create dissonance for them.
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Parental Advisory (@Parental_OnX) reported@MansplainStuff @rationalposts @Reddit Yeah I believe that, and it's the real issue. Too damned many that Canadians end up having to pay for. Need to get them all out, the fact they can't make it in our "land of milk and honey" warms my heart and hopefully means they will F off soon