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Problems in the last 24 hours
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August 16: 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 (54%)
- Sign in (24%)
- Errors (22%)
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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monstro do pântano (@dear_death_) reportedmy IT guy knowledge did NOT prepare me for the frustration of having no idea how to fix this weird **** my keyboard does when i log in. my journeys through ***, forums and reddit are getting exhausting
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Richard Illingworth (@RCIllingworth) reportedone of our customer's campaigns dropped from a 4% reply rate → 0.87% without a single word of copy changing. the only thing that different: the inboxes he sent from. (the exact setup we use to land in Primary, after 2,000+ deployments, free) he'd spent WEEKS convinced it was the copy. → he rewrote the hook and ran 5 spintax variants per line → he tested new angles, new senders, restructured the whole email nothing moved. so we split his 24 mailboxes in half and ran a placement check. turns out, 70% were sitting in spam. the copy was NEVER the problem. and for most folks, no amount of rewriting fixes an email that can’t actually reach the human inbox. the worst part is you can't see this happening. • your sequencer will say "delivered" • open rate will look fine (a junk number btw) • and your reply rate slowly declines over a few weeks while you have ZERO idea what changed the ONLY reliable sign you're actually in the primary inbox is an out-of-office reply. you physically can't get one from spam. so after 2,000+ cold email infra deployments... …i put the exact technical setup we use to land in primary into one free checklist. inside: 1. the genuine reasons your emails hit spam, and why Reddit gets them wrong 2. a 60-second deliverability diagnostic you run before you touch your copy 3. the 4-checkpoint pre-send framework we run on every account 4. the domain and DNS setup checklist (SPF, DKIM, DMARC and MX all configured right) 5. the two-lane provider strategy for splitting Google and Outlook 6. the warmup and volume protocol (2 weeks at 15-20 sends a day, the 6-week rule is a myth) 7. a one-page infrastructure quick reference you can screenshot we've used this EXACT framework on over 570,000+ inbox deployments. trust me, it works. PS repost this and i'll also send you the 60-second placement test you can run on your own accounts today, no tools required.
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Kalina the Everchosen (@WarmasterKalina) reported@ArchonAvalon @ApostolicZoom The biggest issue with Reddit Atheism and why it was so cringe was the fact that it relied on an entirely Christian/Neoplatonic framework for all its arguments, which made it extremely shallow and fall apart under any serious philosophical critique.
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Common Sense Investor (CSI) (@commonsenseplay) reportedYES YOU - YOU'RE A RECKLESS SPECULATOR NOT AN INVESTOR! $SPCX $WEN $IREN $ONDS $IONQ $RGTI $PYPL $LULU $UBER $RDDT $NBIS $OKLO I’m re-reading The Intelligent Investor by Benjamin Graham, and it got me thinking about how loosely we use the word “investor.” These days, especially on X, anyone who buys or sells a stock calls themselves an investor. But buying shares does not automatically make you one. There is a big difference between investing and speculating. An investor tries to understand what they own, what it is worth, what could go wrong and whether the price makes sense. They think about risk, position size, diversification and how the investment fits into their overall portfolio. A speculator is usually focused on what might go up next over next few minutes, hours or days! That includes people buying on maximum margin, treating leveraged ETFs like lottery tickets, shorting stocks without understanding the risks, gambling on short-dated options or chasing whatever is popular on X or Reddit! There is nothing wrong with admitting that you are speculating. The problem is pretending it is investing! Using leverage, options or short selling does not automatically make someone reckless. These tools can have a purpose. I use them too - but using them without understanding the downside is a different story. That is why I made this pyramid. The higher you go, the more the result depends on leverage, timing, hype, emotion and luck. At the bottom is the boring approach: a sensible asset mix, diversification, low fees, patience and a long-term plan. Boring does not get much attention, but it usually gives you a better chance of staying in the game long term - and actually reap the rewards of compounding! Capital is hard to earn, treat it with respect. Think about how many hours/weeks of work that last speculative trade was and you will feel different about it! Expect better from your decisions, your process and your future. Be a common-sense investor, not a reckless speculator!
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Monkenstien. (@3_monk) reported@Rdj18781 @thatwelshanon @ChazzerEvans It was suggested in a thread on Reddit that it is likely due to how the data entry is put in and how the information would have been completed in Welsh first down to population size.
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Joe2: Woke & proud of it. (@eatatjoe2) reportedX seems stuffed? "There is a very recent X @Support repost problem being reported. A Reddit user posted, since 9 Aug their recent reposts were behaving strangely: they were visible in the mobile app but missing from the web version and elsewhere." #auspol
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۟ (@powdermind) reported@exagger57190691 Good thing idc what ppl on here think about my opinions but omg I didn’t know they got down on Reddit like that
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Aruto (@DannyDevit0W0) reported@Dexerto Good, he's a creep and a geek. A loser who doesn't deserve to moderate a personal Minecraft server, much less reddit.
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Eirin (@eirinalberta) reportedX's web UI changes are puzzling. Retweeting isn't useful for highlighting information now that it's hidden under a drop down menu and there's already a bookmark function. And now it's easier for people to obsessively review every word you've written here, just like Reddit.
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Hanif Ogunlade (@asta30201) reportedI’m changing the way I’m doing my research. Businesses have stopped replying as much. So instead of waiting, I’m going where people are already talking about their problems. Reddit. X. Reviews. Communities. I’m looking for one thing: What problems are people already frustrated enough to complain about? By Tuesday, I want the evidence to tell me what I should build. No guessing. 🔎
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David Peterson (@davidgpeterson) reported@MaxModz1382 @ProtonVPN 5 days ago was already 3 days out of date for that $2.77 price. The $2.99 sale ended at the end of July, changing to a new $3.49 price point. A/B evaluation of the old and the new price points was supposed to last a week, but continued over the weekend August 7-10. By the morning of August 10th, we had already increased the 3.49 to 100%. The $2.77/$3.43 price points were an error reported on Reddit and corrected on the 7th - so were only briefly available. The orginal Reddit post was in response to the $2.77/$3.43 error and to speculation that there was some adaptive pricing going on targeting Safari/Apple users. The independent testing confirmed my assertion that there was no targeted pricing going on. It also drove a spike of additional sales over the weekend when people discovered how they could still access the old $2.99 price point.
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Nike Ralph (@MjelkRen) reported@Reddit_Retards Those people on Reddit are broken
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SaMi (@info_with_ai) reported1/ Find a painful problem Don’t start by asking: “What should I create?” Ask: “What problem are people already paying to solve?” Look at: → Reddit → X → Facebook groups → Amazon reviews → YouTube comments Find repeated complaints and questions.
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v 🍎🐟🐾🚗⭐❄️ (@awoooooo_6) reported@SapphicNPetty I still can't figure it out 😭 I've only seen people talking about how terrible it is to even consider spending, but not a single person talking about how they'll spend? all I can guess is that maybe it's been a bigger problem on discord/reddit/elsewhere and people are just speaking out about it here??
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LaDarius Ty’Quavius Jackson (@JewWithBennies) reported@JennDinKC @MattMeeks28 Negotiations “broke down” so insurance went from $70 to $3k overnight? That’s not how any of this works chief. Save this fanfic **** for Reddit
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Sorenthaz (@Sorenthaz) reported@reddit_lies Problem is that Reddit admins are the reason Reddit got this bad. So they'll just use AI to enforce left-biased **** unless something changes.
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3KOG Actual (@3KOG_actual) reported@pepperboxtv @jackmandaville Why isn't pepperbox working on TVs? It's on reddit. People are having issues on TVs with "This video can't play on this device." Trying to watch that documentary, and Unsub!!!!
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AR D (@BuildaBetterWLD) reported@1BethDutton Is this Trolling? if not, I used chatgpt previously quite a bit but it lies more then the others. Perhaps its better then it was but I found it would lead more to hidden mistakes from its dishonesty. Also fighting it being taught from terrible source data like reddit makes it useless.
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Miri✨みりりん (@miririnmiri) reported@PeterP_1985 I do get that (I'm criticial of a lot of games/films/books) but for me it's the disingenuous criticisms and also people yelling at people who AREN'T critical which is the problem. I got downvoted into oblivion on reddit for saying I cried more in Spidey 2 than 1 lol
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🏳️⚧️Maeve (the boss poss ) 🔜 ANE (@FireSaphira) reported@catgirlprostate the art of just using google and skimming forum articles is dying and its a shame . like a 10 min google search and a reddit post later can normally solve most tech issues
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Dom Sakavickas (@sakavickas) reported@0xGhostCasper @geluhorotan @scrapebadger yep, that's a big problem. If anyone's selling old Reddit accounts without farmed karma, I'm ready to pay some $$$ 🤑
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ecomchigga (@ecomchigga) reportedthe most valuable skill in 2026 is not creating. it's curating. and almost nobody has made the switch because we were raised to believe that original work is the only work worth doing. but look at what actually makes money now. the best-selling guides aren't original research. they're scattered free information assembled into one clean document that saves someone 3 weeks of searching. the best-performing tweets aren't original thoughts. they're proven structures filled with fresh substance. the best products aren't inventions. they're reorganizations of existing knowledge that nobody bothered to organize before. the internet solved the information problem a decade ago. there is no topic left where the answer doesn't exist for free somewhere. the problem that remains, the one people will pay for indefinitely, is that the free answers are buried across 30 reddit threads, 12 youtube videos that contradict each other, and 8 blog posts from 2019 that may or may not still apply. the person who finds those, verifies which ones actually work, and arranges them into one walkthrough somebody can finish in a sitting has created something genuinely valuable. not because the knowledge is rare. because the assembly is. nobody else did the work of collecting, filtering, and ordering. and that work is worth money because the alternative is the reader doing it themselves over 3 weeks of evenings they'll never get back. this reframe changes everything about how you start. you don't need expertise. you don't need credentials. you don't need to be the smartest person in the room. you need to be the most organized person in a room full of scattered information. and organization is a skill anyone can perform this weekend.
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ᅠ 堅固ᅠ ᅠ (@chainsawheart) reportedNowhere in this post i said nte copied wuwa.. and people are still getting triggered. These were leaks posted in NTE leaks subreddit on Reddit later taken down by the mods as it was a private internal stuff related to Hotta studios during CBT 3 of NTE.
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𝒆𝒓𝒖🍷 (@eruphim) reported@blockhead4000 Also I didn't call you a coward, but designated you under cowardly behaviour in that instance. You commited the word-concept fallacy, and according to the immortal science of Reddit Philosophy you thenceforth lose the Debate, and are knocked down priority the 'cule pecking order.
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Matt 🚯 (@serial4dinner) reported@zowiefy They took it down immediately? it was most likely a reddit auto-moderator (bot), usually they do that if there was something wrong with the post/account. Maybe u dont have enough Karma? Either way u can try posting it in r/techjacket im sure they'll be good with it.
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Kairi of Deep Dive - Mourning Dead Kairi (@truthface8) reportedThread🧵: Okay, I calmed down a bit. I was overly emotional with one reddit post, and not seeing Kairi at all in KH4. I almost quit because I just thought that I need to accept the fact Kairi is not welcomed in KH Fandom anymore. I just got tired of speaking the truth, but-
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Rohit Sharma (@JustbeeingRohit) reported@_techibee My OnePlus 12 also suddenly died after the update a few weeks back... Reddit is filled with these complaints, but the brand seems to be ignoring the issue.
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腑鬼 (@purlicueinblood) reportedthe title the everything app doesnt fix twitter in the slightest, the everything app i believe would be reddit even tho i dislike it myself
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Julian Goldie SEO (@JulianGoldieSEO) reportedGROK SEO: The New Search Engine Nobody Is Ranking In Yet Grok is quietly a search engine now. People ask it questions. It reads websites. It cites sources. Those sources? Websites like yours. And almost nobody is competing for those spots yet. Here's the proof from the last 24 hours: We spotted a brand new keyword trending on X. Built content on it across 5 platforms. Blog post. Second site. Two videos. A Reddit thread. Indexed it all fast with an indexing API. 24 hours later: first page of Google. Multiple spots. Then we asked Grok the same question. It cited our sites 3 times in ONE answer. The unlock: Grok sees X conversations as they happen. Google Trends is slow. Keyword tools are weeks old. Grok shows you keywords the day they're born. New keyword = no competition = no waiting in line. Old SEO: publish, then wait 6 months. This: publish today, rank tomorrow. The AI answers of tomorrow are being written by someone today. Make sure it's you.
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James poppenhager (@poppenager18723) reportedPlease excuse the mess, it's been a week to say the least. I've just about had it with this ******* thing. I've tried every possible thing I could think of to fix it. I switched the battery, the SD card, reformatted the SD card, switched SD cards. When none of that worked, I turned to the ultimate source of solutions, Reddit. Guess what? Not even Reddit ******* knows. If Reddit doesn't know, then surely the manufacturer does, right? I read their list, and aside from everything I've already done, including disabling the horizontal locks for the internal gyro software, the only other option was making a manual update. So, I manually updated the camera, felt like I was using a floppy disk again, and THIS is what I get after. Keep in mind, THIS is BETTER than what I had BEFORE! I'm almost convinced it's got to be a problem with the Lense at this point, because I've done all I can think of, and then some, to the main camera itself. I thought I would try again with this GoPro at getting some timelapse footage, but I can't even get normal video to work either. I mean, it worked fine for about 50 seconds to a minute before doing this, which is longer than it took before. Oh, and it started to automatically cycle on and off on its own the moment I stopped recording too. I just wanted to record some time on the road and with the boys tonight since I haven't seen them for a while now. **** it, I guess I'm not allowed to do that.