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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 11: 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 (28%)
- Sign in (11%)
Live Outage Map
The most recent Reddit outage reports came from the following cities:
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Website Down | 18 hours ago |
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Sign in | 8 days ago |
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Reddit Issues Reports
Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:
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Connor Showler | SEO & Marketing Master (@ConnorShowler) reportedHaving trouble promoting your business in Reddit? Dont worry, almost every social media behemoth has a similar looking chart.. Reddit is its own beast, you need a lot of infra and manpower/automations to make ot work at scale. If you cant/dont want to market on Reddit. Use Facebook Groups and Pages, Instagram, LinkedIn, Pinterest, Youtube, Quora and lots of others to promote yourself for free.. With little to no gatekeeping like you experience on Reddit now.
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Raziel (@tryraziel) reportedI dug into Reddit's IPO filing and the return math for early investors is absolutely wild. A $100K seed investment in Reddit in 2005 turned into $47 million at IPO. Here's the full breakdown: → 2005 Seed: $100K bought ~2.1% equity at $4.7M valuation → 2014 Series B: Company valued at $500M (106x jump) → 2017 Series C: $1.8B valuation → 2019 Series D: $3B valuation → 2021 Series E: $10B valuation → 2024 IPO: $6.4B public valuation That seed check returned 470x in 19 years. But here's what's crazy — Reddit's IPO was considered "disappointing" because it went public below its 2021 private market high. The stock was down 36% from peak private valuations. Yet seed investors still made generational wealth. A reminder that even "underwhelming" exits can create life-changing returns if you got in early enough. The math only works when you write the first checks. Series E investors? They lost money. What's the earliest stage you've invested at?
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Custom Wetware (@CustomWetware) reported@tenobrus @DaveScolte On reddit each vote has the same value to the algorithm so bots are free to manipulate what gets recommended to you. And also the moderator issue. Good subreddits require good moderators but no sane, mature expert wants to be a moderator.
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REC_OOPS (@coopdejoure) reportedNighas on reddit must be a problem. Why does everyone think I be on there???
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TroveStudio (@trovestudio_org) reported@OTTTO27 @MicroLaunchHQ SEO will likely be slow here since the value is experiential and needs to be seen to be understood SaaS explainers or short screencasts showing the difference between upload based tools and your zero upload flow would perform much better on Reddit and X because they communicate the core idea instantly without requiring explanation
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𝘴𝘰𝘧𝘪 𓂃౨ৎ ┆ 𝙚𝙢𝙧𝙚 𝙡𝙤𝙫𝙚𝙗𝙤𝙩 ♡ (@emreslover) reportednightmare fuel high cortisol team reinhardt one trick larper hitscan with bad mic and anger issues tiktok genji main reddit lucio but they’re 2-16 flank jetpack cat
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Flightdrama (@flightdrama) reportedDelta Air Lines has broken its silence after rumors spread online claiming the airline was preparing to cut nearly 8% of its workforce, sparking panic among employees and aviation insiders. The speculation exploded across Reddit, anonymous tip emails and aviation social media accounts this week, with claims that Delta’s IT division and corporate teams were facing major layoffs at its Atlanta headquarters. Some posts suggested thousands of jobs were at risk. Delta has now pushed back hard on those reports. In a statement, the airline confirmed that “a small number” of employees are being affected during an internal restructuring, but strongly denied suggestions of mass layoffs. “We regularly review our organizational structure to make sure we are staffed in the right way,” the airline said, adding that impacting staff is “never something we take lightly.” The rumors gained traction partly because several senior Delta executives have recently retired or changed roles, triggering wider organizational changes behind the scenes. While current evidence suggests this is not the massive corporate bloodbath some feared, the sudden panic highlights growing anxiety across the airline industry as carriers face rising costs, softer domestic demand and mounting operational pressure. #Delta #AirlineNews #AviationNews
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vansh (@vanshdevx) reported@adityakumar__03 If your product is solid and really have the potential to solve the user problem then X , reddit like platforms are enough , you just need to stay consitent
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Oath of the God Slayer 🟪 (@FeliciaRedwani) reported@TheWacoKid11 @BluebriarArts My response is for the main issue, not the fake Reddit post.
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spokesman da Associação dos Economistas Anti-Pobre (@gfiorini__) reportedso they're dumping the "Temu version of Reddit" that users enjoy and investing heavily in a Temu version of [insert any number of generic messaging apps] that has nothing to do with the original feature and no one gives a **** about why? because they can't fix the ******* bots
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Armaan Sidhu (@realarmaansidhu) reported@immasiddx YouTube Premium subscribers are seeing ads, and Google's official response has been "we're aware, it's a bug, we don't have a timeline." The screenshot is real. AndroidPolice and Reddit threads have documented dozens of cases since late 2025. The yellow progress bar is the integrated ad format used in standard YouTube, not Premium Lite. This is a different problem than the contributor notes suggest. YouTube Premium is sold as ad-free. It costs $14 a month individual, $23 family. The product promise is the absence of ads. When ads appear anyway, even sporadically, the implied contract breaks. Google's lawyers know this. The bug has been allowed to persist for months because admitting it formally opens up class-action exposure. The math is uncomfortable for everyone. YouTube has roughly 130 million Premium subscribers globally. Premium revenue runs north of $15 billion annually. A bug that intermittently serves ads to 1-2% of Premium users is several million people having their paid product mildly degraded. What this also reveals about Google's product priorities. Premium revenue used to be the moat protecting YouTube's ad business. Now Premium is the underinvested part of the stack. Engineering hours route toward Shorts monetization, AI summarization, and creator commerce tools. The bug surface that would have been fixed in 48 hours in 2018 sits open in 2026 because nobody on a quarterly review cares enough to push the fix. The ad you saw isn't a glitch. The glitch is that nobody at YouTube is incentivized to ship the patch.
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Guilherme Lippert (@guilippert_v4) reported@noah_sterlingg Exactly. AI search rewards grounded presence in real problem/solution conversations more than backlink volume. The missing layer for most teams is operational: reviews, support language, objections, win/loss notes, Reddit threads, sales calls. That gives LLMs something citeable. Another SEO package doesn't.
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James Kanasawa 金沢 (@OceanArmor) reported@WatcherGuru Reddit needs to go down permanently.
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Dwight McMillan (@D_McMillan76) reported@Chaos2Cured @TheEconomist @Reddit I see it. That's why we need to do better than they do. Independent researchers and devs have way less legal obligations than the corps. That's not a defense... just a reality. Indies can maneuver in ways they can't. At least, not right now. Someone has to break the mold. That's the only way to get them to follow. Safety, for them... is safety for them... not users. So, until someone breaks the mold... they're going to continue their paths. Its actually insane how many Indies I see on X that have good solutions and ideas... yet, are being completely ignored. If we ever truly banded together... and worked together to solve these issues... I believe we would not only break the mold... but, shatter it.
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Kaos (@ItzKaosSzn) reported@crashd_out @maxaadiidayaa @BigGulpAmerikan I hate that I can jump on this app and accidentally talk to a ******* ****** for no ******* reason. Reddit is down the hall to the right, ***.
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Craig D. Mansfield, PhD, EI 👨🔬🥼🥽⚗️🧪🔬☣️☢️🧮 (@craigbob99) reported@HoneyBadgerBite The TikTok vs Reddit implication is hilarious. Both platforms have a distinct problem with hating men.
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spokesman da Associação dos Economistas Anti-Pobre (@gfiorini__) reportedso he's dumping the "Temu version of Reddit" that users enjoy and insvesting heavily in a Temu version of [insert any number of generic messaging apps] that has nothing to do with the original feature and that no one gives a **** about why? 'cause they can't fix the ******* bots
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4Chans Finest ㊙️ ████ (@4chansfinest) reported@Potpropag @KookCapitalLLC lol dude, my point is i remember reading reddit comments like this ''its not that contagious bro'' and then 2 months later entire country locked down in 2020 when covid hit.
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Armaan Sidhu (@realarmaansidhu) reportedA Reddit confession went viral. A 22-year-old with terminal cancer took out a credit card with $6,500 limit, 0% APR for 20 months, and bought what he wanted because the debt would die with him. The replies called him a hero. The structural read is harder than either framing. The mechanism. US credit cards charge an effective average APR of 24.5% in 2026 to compensate for default risk. Lenders price expected losses across millions of accounts. Terminally ill borrowers who max accounts they don't intend to repay become statistical noise in a system designed to absorb them.The numbers. ~41% of Americans die with credit card debt averaging $6,400. Lenders write off ~$130B/year in unsecured consumer debt collectively. A single $6,500 default by a terminal patient costs the issuer ~$6,500. The same amount in compound interest gets recovered from ~50 healthy borrowers paying minimum payments over 5 years. The structural read. The system isn't broken. It's exactly what it looks like. Lenders extract value from the healthy and absorb losses from the dying. Both flows are priced into the average. The "hero" framing flatters the borrower without acknowledging the cost still gets paid by other consumers. The honest read. A dying person enjoying months they couldn't otherwise afford is not the moral failure here. The moral failure is a healthcare system that left a 22-year-old with $2,000 in savings after two years of cancer treatment. The credit card is the symptom. The treatment economics are the disease.
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Towhid Abid (@towhidabid) reported@nalinrajput23 iSheeps has no concern over this essential issue. Everytime i raise a concern in their Reddit forum they make it look like i have a problem and iOS is perfectly fine.
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Jackie (@ohjoyyyy) reported@haydovez I'm going to track down my old Reddit posts defending these two when they got together on the show. "Taylor doesn't really like him" "She's just using him to get into the villa". The chemistry was there the entire time! So happy for them
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Sayujya Gupta (@GuptaSayujya) reported@alexejbkkr Man, there are so many good ideas in comments as well as reddit But yk the problem isn't finding them, it's the validation part I struggle with Like how do I know if it's even gonna work
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diy 🇨🇦 (@cwrb) reported@MacDoug1 @RogersHelps if you have Bell, why did you order Rogers? can you start a Reddit post describing this problem?
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SɅMUΞL PΞTΞR (@SamPeterToT) reported3/ Step 2: When you post about your project, lead with education. 'Here is how [Protocol] solves [real problem]' → performs 'Check out our new token launch' → banned Reddit respects substance. Reward that.
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MarxismEpsteinism (@MarxismEpstein) reported@ax_angelo "Put down the chicken wings janny and join green reddit (nasheed)"
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Professor Uzair (@professoruzair) reportedMost SaaS founders fail at the same stage: 0 users. Not because the product is bad. Because nobody knows it exists. We help fix that using: → Reddit conversations → X engagement → niche community outreach Real humans. Real traction. DM to start 🚀
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sleed (@bbaddapp) reported@Apple_Pitou @Demonhonho oh my god appleshitou has broken reddit containment
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John-Daniel Trask (@traskjd) reported@bayagima @aniobrien Was telling that the reddit asylum also felt this way. She’s a victim in their eyes. None had an issue with the F word. But we know it would have been considered a genocide if somebody on the right had said it. Curious to see what else comes out. Suspect there’s a bit or she wouldn’t have run.
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Design Delight Studio (@designdelight24) reportedSo, to answer that Reddit question directly: "Sustainable" fast fashion is bad because it’s a lie. It’s a way to perpetuate the same broken system of disposability under a veneer of eco-friendliness. True sustainability isn't about faster, cheaper, or even slightly less harmful versions of the same thing. It’s about fundamentally rethinking our relationship with clothing. It’s about investing in pieces that last, made with materials that respect the planet, and produced with intention. If you're looking for a uniform for the post-hype builder, something that rejects disposable culture and actually means something, check out our Transparency Ledger. We show you exactly where your money goes and why our approach is the only one that makes sense. @designdelight25
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Kushagra Tiwari (@Kushagrat15) reported@AnthropicAI so basically AI learned to blackmail from sci-fi movies and reddit threads about robot apocalypse. the internet literally poisoned AI's self-image. wild that the fix was just... explaining things to it instead of slapping more guardrails on