Reddit status: access issues and outage reports

Problems in the last 24 hours

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Most Reported Problems

The following are the most recent problems reported by Reddit users through our website.

• Website Down (45%)
• Errors (31%)
• Sign in (24%)

Live Outage Map

The most recent Reddit outage reports came from the following cities:

City	Problem Type	Report Time
Patna	Errors	7 days ago
Monclova	Sign in	8 days ago
Nice	Errors	9 days ago
Guayaquil	Errors	19 days ago
Veracruz	Website Down	25 days ago
Bhubaneshwar	Website Down	27 days ago

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Reddit Issues Reports

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  Mike Sulka (@SulkaMike) reported 6 minutes ago

  WSJ says Gemini 3.8 Flash, internally called Skimaki, could release as soon as today. Google engineers using it inside Jetski reportedly preferred it to Anthropic's Opus in head-to-head coding work. That's an internal opinion, not an independent benchmark, but WSJ reporting it from employees is a pretty substantial upgrade from the X cottage industry leak-account chatter we've had all week. Reddit actually adds an interesting piece to this. People already using 3.7 Flash keep coming back to the same thing: not that it is magically smarter than everything else, but that it is so damn fast. I agree. One developer described building several semi-complex web apps and said watching it work was a “hoot” because of the speed. Another heavy Claude/ChatGPT user said moving to 3.7 gave him “whiplash” because of how quickly it could iterate through coding work. A model that's 95% as good but can take three swings while the expensive model takes one may actually be the better coding model. There are also Reddit posts this morning claiming Gemini is identifying itself as 3.8 Flash even though the model selector still says 3.7. I would ignore those completely as proof. Asking an LLM what model it is remains the AI equivalent of asking a golden retriever who manufactured the dog food. Google's public pages still haven't given us a gemini-3.8-flash endpoint as I write this, so we're not across the finish line yet. But if 3.8 lands and independently backs up the WSJ coding claims, I think the story is pretty simple: Google may be turning latency from a product feature into an intelligence advantage. In agentic coding, the fastest good model gets to make more mistakes. And more importantly, it gets to fix them before the other guy finishes thinking.

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  IamLeo (@ImLeoRey) reported 7 minutes ago

  @Techjunkie_Aman This is terrible news, nexusmod has become tyrannical and toxic, it's like the reddit of mods.

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  Guaranteed Estimates. Free Work. (@realscotttygett) reported 11 minutes ago

  @XAmericaTtrivia The last time I visited FB, there were hints of my needing to enter by way of trespassed works/organization-pages (mirror?) parallels with changed passwords and new occupants and Reddit kitten imagery analogous to where my low-profile several-acre mining metaphor digs had similar paranoid flesh hung on them but hundreds of feet down. Neurodivergent mining influencers staking claims on private property held by one owner and two trespassers courtesy of what appeared to be townie malice/opportunism? Certified mail that. I mention Elon Musk fanboy syndrome in different contexts, but never having met him, focus on the shifting sands of self-described noise: science factoids best not described, let alone repeated out of based 17 S.D.G. context, mineshaft lockdown scenarios, shoestring homebrew quantum and a decade of sideways logistics around compulsive gambling Nevada? Second-hand Pall Malls agreeing with curried ****'s combs fried rice and tan sweet coffee, one's egotism symbolized as an eight foot-tall slot machine evoking nothing whatsoever stoically. An ascetic's kind of Nirvana, whereas having every other face in the place celebratory and devout only agreed with its being a Christian Science Reading Room, an arm-wrestling trial for Mr. Magoo showing up where he was sure a decompression hackathon was any minute taking place?

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  FINTECH.TV (@FINTECHTVglobal) reported 17 minutes ago

  Today's @NYSE Notables with @JD_Durkin: 🟢 Reddit $RDDT +9.31% bouncing back on institutional accumulation after its S&P 500 addition, still down 33% year to date

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  liquidated (Dev Arc) (@liquidated0x) reported 18 minutes ago

  @pfernan95dev distribution is your whole bottleneck fr. most agencies are just dashboards with extra steps been down this road, the agents that can push reddit and seo content without a dashboard barely exist yet. you might be onto something

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  Dice (@builtbydice) reported 20 minutes ago

  @MSiekmoeller reddit is ridiculously good for finding people with the exact problem you’re solving

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  Akari Rini 🌐⭐ (@akaririnii) reported 22 minutes ago

  @Necromel211736 i aspire to be as tech savvy as you one day!! random reddit tech problem forums are my savior

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  rai ˖᯽ ݁˖ (@raionxsu) reported 26 minutes ago

  @jonschxyz @FatiTheDream Hmmm I haven’t tried that before. I say give it a go and hunt down if anyone’s tried it on Reddit

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  Yash (@yashlame) reported 27 minutes ago

  Only about 4% of Reddit citation instances have a brand actually named on the cited page. The thread gets the credit. The category gets the credit. You get a mention of the problem you solve.

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  Simmo (@yoursimmo11) reported 28 minutes ago

  Stop f*cking adding so much stuff. Honestly. Please. Just stop. Stop stacking. Stop pill popping. Stop reading one more study at 11pm. Stop perusing Reddit and Ray Peat forums at midnight. Stop all of it. Think about it. If any of it actually worked, you'd have stopped by now (and you haven't). Pattern I see after coaching dozens and dozens of 7-and-8 figure execs is that not one was missing something. NOT ONE. Every single one had the opposite problem. Too much interference. Too many pills, too many rules, and way too much stimulus before 9am... all of it standing between his body and the thing it already knows how to do. Trust me on this: You're not under-supplemented. You're over-interfered. Your body doesn't reward effort. It rewards ORDER.

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  Colin Sechay (@colinsechay) reported 29 minutes ago

  @Kalshi_Film The Legendary Story: Tom Hanks is sitting at a diner in North Dakota having a beer. A few tables over, some kid is face-down, completely passed out. Hanks walks over to check if he’s okay, sees the guy’s phone sitting on the table, and can’t resist. He has the bartender snap a few photos of himself with the unconscious stranger — one where he’s looking concerned, one where he’s pointing and laughing like he just found treasure — then slips the phone back into the kid’s pocket and leaves. The next morning the guy wakes up, scrolls his camera roll, and finds Tom Hanks photobombing his hangover.  That’s the story that spread on Facebook, Imgur, and Reddit with captions like “Can you imagine finding these on your phone after a drunken night out?” What actually happened A fan ran into Hanks at a diner in West Fargo (Hanks’ niece worked there). The fan’s thing was posing with celebrities while pretending to be wasted. He asked Hanks if they could do it. Hanks said yes, handed over his glasses, and played along while a friend took the pictures. The original Reddit title was literally: “My friend met Tom Hanks, stole his glasses and pretended to be wasted.”  Hanks’ favorite version When a reporter asked him about it in 2013, Hanks gave both stories and then said he preferred the legend: “Well now, that second version is that I did just start taking pictures with a passed-out guy. I’m happy with this version, that it’s become somewhat of a legend. I wouldn’t want anyone not to believe that I am capable of turning up on their phones.” So the photos are real, Hanks really posed with a guy who looks dead-drunk at a diner, and he really used the guy’s phone. He just didn’t do it to a random unconscious stranger. The internet decided the better story was the one where Forrest Gump finds you passed out and photobombs your phone, and Hanks was happy to let that one live. @grok

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  Dog Dad The Pilot (@TeamBubba23) reported 31 minutes ago

  @BW_Channel23 Saw somebody posted this on Reddit the other day. It got taken down shortly after

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  Tech With Matteo (@TechWithMatteo) reported 31 minutes ago

  @lukmanAufbau honestly with GeoCam i found real users just by answering old reddit threads where people were already complaining about the exact problem, way better than guessing where my audience hangs out.

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  Billy Baggins (@BillyOfBagEnd) reported 33 minutes ago

  @dwanbrooks93 @rothschildmd And hopefully those broken records will send a message to Hollywood that people on X and Reddit don’t represent the mass audiences. The Odyssey, too

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  graphtheory (@graphtheory) reported 34 minutes ago

  It’s funny to me that people are trying to set boundaries with the evil tankies who want to burn everything down by being like “VPs at banks only make like $200k” You’re talking to a waitress at a gas station who dunning Krugered herself on Reddit, don’t bother, you’re the enemy

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  Ray Myers (@TheRayMyers) reported 34 minutes ago

  @ariaradnia The problem is sustainability, I don't think this is sustainable. I believe US DAUs decreased last quarter. Reddit is turning into AI slop machine, and that makes it less relevant for LLMs as a data source. I don't buy it that there is another huge contract coming their way. I don't like their product as a user.

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  John (@hello_code_) reported 38 minutes ago

  @rcmisk matches what I've seen, the backlink is the actual product, the launch day traffic is just a nice side effect nobody plans around. reddit threads where people already describe the problem convert way better than PH upvote traffic ever did

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  DingusCola SLOTS CLEARED (@fackinbuddy) reported 40 minutes ago

  @___EEF_ There are apparently people on Reddit as recent as 4 days ago having the exact same issue on me and the working theory that it’s due to paypal’s ai security. This could validate for a genuine law suit

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  Mike Sulka (@SulkaMike) reported 44 minutes ago

  Fable 5.1 has been out for about a day and Reddit has already discovered why some people don't like the way it writes: THE WATERMARK. Except...probably not. Fable 5.1 and Mythos 5.1 are the first new Claude models carrying Anthropic's statistical text watermark, and some users are already wondering whether that's why the newer Claude models feel more verbose, structured or exhausting to read. I went through Anthropic's actual watermark documentation, and their explanation makes that theory pretty hard to defend. The watermark doesn't insert hidden characters or extra words. It only nudges the random choice between equally acceptable next words. Anthropic says its testing found no measurable effect on creativity, readability or output quality, and cites Google's controlled testing of the underlying SynthID-Text approach reaching the same result. It also adds no extra tokens and essentially no latency. And here's the detail I hadn't appreciated: Anthropic is applying the watermark globally, even though it exists largely because of the EU AI Act, because it says it doesn't yet have a durable way to apply it only by geography. Older Claude models are eventually getting it too. Code barely gets watermarked at all when exact token choices matter. Factual passages get less watermarking for the same reason. The watermark lives mostly in places where “grey” and “overcast” are equally good choices. So if Fable 5.1 suddenly feels like it swallowed a management-consulting handbook, I wouldn't blame Brussels just yet. But humans being humans, we quickly try to reverse-engineer model behavior from vibes. Yesterday people thought Fable 5.1 existed because Claude suddenly seemed smarter. Today people think its writing changed because of a watermark. Last week a Gemini model told somebody it was a model that hadn't even been released yet. The Behavioral-Fingerprint Trap keeps winning. We are getting very good at noticing that something changed. We're still pretty terrible at figuring out what changed underneath it. And in 2026, it could be the checkpoint, the harness, the effort setting, the router, the safeguard layer, the system prompt, the watermark... ...or Claude just decided it really wanted to give you twelve bullet points today.

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  The Wise Investor 🧠 (@TheWiseIC) reported 45 minutes ago

  @sjb987654321 @varuninvesting User stagnation is a risk but let me paint this picture. If Reddit wasn’t desired, why does logged out traffic and web referrals continue to grow? Clearly, there’s a demand for “what does Reddit think”? The issue is how to convert logged out to logged in. Well, management said that the best conversion comes from platform investments. Reddit search went from 1M users last year to 15M users. They just need to make the platform better to use. That’s it. The best ROI comes from within.

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  Bmore73 (@mdemt) reported 50 minutes ago

  @ErimhanAhmet May 2024 — Former sailor’s photos called “worse than prison” A former Navy worker shared mess-hall photos on Reddit (raw-looking chicken, questionable brown meat, pink hotdog, moldy bread). Commenters included veterans from the 1990s who said shipboard food was “really quite awful,” greasy, and off-tasting. Covered by The Mirror.  Longer-term context from reporting: Sailors have long described repetitive menus, declining quality after fresh produce runs out (often within the first couple of weeks), and reliance on personal snacks, protein powder, and ramen to supplement. Midnight rations (“midrats”) were frequently cited as especially sparse leftovers. Ships returning to port rusty after long deployments October 2020 — USS Stout (DDG-55) after 215 consecutive days at sea The destroyer returned to Naval Station Norfolk looking heavily rust-streaked and weathered after a record 215 days without docking (COVID restrictions prevented port visits). Photos circulated widely showing rust patches on the hull. Daily Mail and later Naval News / NAVSEA coverage noted the rust was removed and the ship repainted after return. NAVSEA later used the Stout photo as an example of high operational tempo plus saltwater corrosion.  December 2021 — Broader “Navy is rusting away” reporting Task & Purpose published photos of multiple ships showing rust after deployments, including USS Arleigh Burke, USS Fort McHenry, USS James E. Williams, and USS Zumwalt, plus the 2020 Stout return. The piece attributed it to a “crushing deployment cycle” that left little time for preservation work.  2018–2019 examples and analysis • USS Curtis Wilbur drew comments for a “rusty and shabby appearance” during a 2018 Hong Kong visit. • 2019 Defense News “Rust Dialogues” discussed why U.S. ships often look rustier than allied ships: American vessels stay at sea longer with fewer port visits for chipping and painting. A 2005 photo of USS Normandy mid-deployment was contrasted with later, rustier ships. Corrosion control was already a multi-billion-dollar annual cost.  2023 NAVSEA statement Naval News quoted NAVSEA on rusty ships: high operational tempo + steel + seawater = rust staining wherever coatings are scratched. Crews do preservation at sea, but it is balanced against operations. The Stout 2020 photo was referenced again.  Rust after long deployments is treated by the Navy as expected cosmetic wear from saltwater and limited time for topside work while underway; it is usually addressed after return to port. Food complaints have been a persistent sailor grievance for decades, especially once fresh stores are gone and the 21-day repeating frozen/canned menu takes over. Both issues tend to surface most visibly after unusually long or high-tempo deployments with few or no port calls.

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  nexa_sama (@nexasama) reported 51 minutes ago

  Matt Damon says Steven Spielberg intentionally banned him from Saving Private Ryan’s boot camp so the cast would genuinely resent him: "Is it true that Steven Spielberg excluded you purposely from the military training on the set of Saving Private Ryan to create a real resentment between the rest of the cast and you?" "That is totally true... I was ready to go to boot camp, and he said, 'Absolutely not.' He goes, 'You can train in any way you want, but I'm separating you from the other guys.' They really did" "they were totally resentful every time they brought up boot camp." "There's an internet rumor on Reddit that if you watch the famous 'idiosyncrasies' scene in Good Will Hunting" "you can actually see a subtle wobbling up and down because the camera operator was laughing uncontrollably along with you and Robin Williams." "I don't know, we could check. I wouldn't be surprised. Robin made everybody laugh... When he would see people's energy flagging, he would just launch into like 10 minutes of stand-up."

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  finngaalkn 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🐺#NEVERTrump#NEVERMAGA (@finngalkn) reported 56 minutes ago

  @beardpandaa I’ve been called “theyfab” and I’m a whole *** binary trans man. Some of those comments about trans men having “privilege” meanwhile over on Reddit r/trans has been completely shut down because a trans masc tried to point out underlying transandrophobia and the entire subreddit

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  SHRIMPMONEYCAPITAL (@SHRIMPMONEYCAP) reported 56 minutes ago

  @LegalYookay on reddit the problem is "men" but never the culture where they're from

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  Zakuza (@TheZakuza) reported 56 minutes ago

  @ChrisMurphyCT Did you forget to login into your reddit account ? you forgot to add "and everyone clapped" at the end

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  Burnt Toasst (@BurntToasst) reported 59 minutes ago

  @Chavez628K @decktech1047 @marceelias Your hurt little fee fees are your problem so can't help you there. But I'm sure it will be a post on reddit that says something like "and then I called him a filthy animal" and end with all of X standing up to clap for you. Regardless, you'll still be a retard.

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  Dude (@Randomuser22147) reported 1 hour ago

  @1x_Michelle_x1 @Pirat_Nation I installed it for the Call of duty beta. After I finished playing I noticed the flickering of my monitor every minute. Looked it up and saw a reddit thread of people reporting the same issue. I reverted back to my old driver. I'll reinstall when it's fixed.

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  Kiana_SEO (@KianaS_00) reported 1 hour ago

  If you’re spending budget on GEO right now, this test may save you from putting it into the wrong channel. Today, my client gave us around 500 queries their in-house team was tracking, saying that they want to do Reddit. We narrowed them down to 50 representative ones and ran each 10 times, roughly 500 real ChatGPT responses in total. In this sample, Reddit appeared as a referenced source only 4.8% of the time, with zero direct Reddit citations. At the same time, we started seeing YouTube show up much more often for this AI category. And this is exactly why, for the clients we already work with, we don’t treat distribution as a fixed strategy. Also, e didn’t wait for the Reddit citation drop to become a GEO headline. Our daily monitoring was already showing the shift. Around August 5, we started noticing changes in how ChatGPT was retrieving sources across real user responses. We adjusted the client’s distribution strategy before the broader data came out. Later, public tracking made the change much clearer. ChatGPT Search’s use of site:-specific fan-out queries jumped from roughly 0.37% to 16.8% in a day, while the average number of searches per response increased from around 1.08 to 1.83. A few days later, Reddit’s tracked share of ChatGPT Search citations fell from a previous average of 3.83% to around 0.52%. By the time this became widely discussed, we had already seen the direction in our own monitoring and started moving the client’s budget. But Reddit still matters for reviews, community discussion and long-term brand presence. Before scaling content, we now look at: which domains AI is actually retrieving from which formats keep getting cited which sources are gaining or losing share how those patterns are changing week by week Then we move the budget. For visual categories, that might mean more YouTube. For another category, it might be product pages, niche publications or first-party research. The useful takeaway is simple: Build your GEO distribution plan around what the model is retrieving now. And ideally, you see the shift in your own data before everyone starts posting about it.

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  carl (@CarlKingofDucks) reported 1 hour ago

  @greytownbuilder Damn you got that reddit atheist aura down

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  Mohit Agarwal (@mohitowit) reported 1 hour ago

  Is @Reddit down?