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Problems in the last 24 hours
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July 29: 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%)
- Errors (24%)
- Sign in (22%)
Live Outage Map
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Reddit Issues Reports
Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:
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Fredrek (@_Fredrek) reported@KRR1751 UWP is one of the worst frameworks/platforms ever. Slow as ****, uglier than the average reddit mod, using the most dogshit file structure ever, and to top it all of - installing itself into a hidden "WindowsApps" folder cause it's an android app wannabe.
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JoeRingo (@JoeRingo5) reported@dutchessprim You’re the problem. Go back to Reddit retard.
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James Sager:Father of the Smart Phone,AI,Techaform (@JamesSager) reported@96pvbxtzb6 @wendelltalks Logic and science leads me. I was famous on Reddit for destroying every single atheist double think. What leads you to error?
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Tinfoil Camera (@TinfoilCamera) reported@KeithandMovies @Nerdrotics You think he was slamming his "35 years experience" **** down on the tape measure to go up against some random reddit anon? Seriously?
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Overly Trev (@OverlyTrev) reported@WaitWhat Post originated from Reddit and it’s HW3, obviously. Claims it’s on V14 lite but no record of proving that just yet. We should spread awareness about issues but be careful not to spread misinformation like Zack (jerry riggs) and others.
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Ishan Ghosh¹⁷🇮🇳 (@PantVerse) reported🚨THE YUVRAJ SINGH CASE 🚨 The Delhi High Court has stepped in to protect Yuvraj Singh! On July 29, 2026, the court ordered platforms to immediately take down fake, derogatory Reddit threads and hateful online posts targeting him. The ruling also blocks sellers from using his face, name, and photos to sell unauthorized commercial merchandise without his permission. Complete victory for his privacy and personal brand!
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Arsha🐴🎧⚧️ (@theymergirl) reportedI am a t4c warrior, please stop dooming by looking at terrible **** on Reddit. A lot of people offline are normal, the only thing to worry about is starting transition while in a relationship because things do get weird. If you’ve transitioned for a few years it’s completely fine
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Survive The Apocalypse (Wishlist On Steam) (@enteresan_lobi) reported@RootHiveGames i write some reddit posts on gamedev about giving up everything, about how broken i am, about how i got lost on my ambition path to my dreams. The i delete and return back to developing my game.
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Ogee (@GeneralNevaDie) reportedCan you all take all these writing of stories to substack, reddit or quora Wherever tf just take it somewhere else Una even dey lie join sef Settle down and just lieeeee
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Nicholas Hanscom (@NicholasHansco1) reported@WilliamShatner Reddit is useful for finding fringe answers to odd problems that almost never occur, beyond that it's a cesspit.
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John Carlo Manuel (@johncmanuel) reportedI waited for 3.1 update to drop for ZZZ, and after maintenance was over, i wanted to play it on my steam deck, but it kept crashing. I tried different proton versions but to no avail 🥲 i looked on reddit and steam forums and apparently its an anti-cheat issue with linux 😭
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gethookd.ai (@gethookdai) reportedhot take from a creative director chair: the 48-hour kill rule is not really about the kill. it is about your creative budget. carol bennett has 635 active ads right now. aging cat health angle. senior food, joint chews, kidney support, none of it moving the needle, then a mom on reddit at 2am cracks it. that is not a lucky brief. that is a shop that can afford to burn 100 ideas to find the one that hits. everyone talks about the kill decision like it is a math problem. cpc too high, cpa too high, pull the plug. sure. but the real question is what sits behind that plug. if you kill on day 2 and you have three replacements queued, you are running a real testing operation. if you kill on day 2 and your designer needs a week to ship the next one, you just torched your account for no reason. the 48-hour rule assumes creative supply. no supply, no rule. the cat mom insight is not a copywriting flex. it is the output of someone burning through 30 variations a month until one lands on "vet freaked when i told her." that line does not come from a brainstorm. it comes from volume. so the framing i keep coming back to: kill speed should equal ship speed. if you cannot replace it in 48 hours, do not judge it in 48 hours. most brands do not have a testing problem. they have a pipeline problem dressed up as a testing problem.
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Suhrit Mamidi (@SuhritMamidi10) reportedCopy can't create desire, it can only channel the desire that's already there. That one line from Breakthrough Advertising strenghted how I think about copy. The best ads I've seen never invented a reason to want something. They found the reason people already had then said it back clearly. The money is in finding where the want already burns hottest then pointing right at it. That means the boring research nobody wants to do. Reddit threads at 2am, reviews people wrote when they were annoyed, the words a tired mum uses at 4am when her brain won't slow down. One brand writes "our supplement has 12 clinically backed ingredients," and nobody cares. The other pulls a line from a real review and runs "finally got through a 3pm meeting without crashing." Same product but one reads like an ad and the other like someone finally understood the problem. You're not manufacturing the want. You're finding where it already burns hottest, then handing it back in their words.
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Stocks by the Numbers (@StocksbyNumbers) reportedFor those of you wondering why your precious meme reddit stocks are down.... it's cause they shouldn't have been up that much to begin with 😎
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Patrick (@TemptInvest) reportedWhat makes $RDDT genuinely fascinating isn’t the revenue they’re generating today. It’s how many completely different businesses are sitting inside the same platform, most of them barely started if started at all.. I believe Reddit could eat into the legal industry. Not the whole thing. Just the most profitable part. Here’s what I mean. Every day, millions of people post legal questions on Reddit. r/legaladvice has 2.3 million members. r/landlordtenant. r/personalfinance. r/tax. Hundreds of communities where real lawyers, actual licensed attorneys, answer strangers questions for free at midnight because they find it interesting. For most of human history, access to legal knowledge had a price. You either knew a lawyer personally or you paid $400 an hour to access what they knew. The information was the same. The access was the moat. Reddit eliminated that moat quietly and nobody noticed because it happened one answer at a time over twenty years. But here’s where it gets financially interesting. LegalZoom went public at a $7 billion valuation selling document automation to people who couldn’t afford lawyers. Rocket Lawyer raised hundreds of millions doing the same thing. The entire legal tech industry is built on one insight, people need legal help and can’t access it affordably. Reddit solved that problem for free. Accidentally. As a side effect of building a platform where people talk to each other. But Reddit never charged for it. Now think about what happens when Reddit builds verified professional profiles. A licensed attorney in r/legaladvice with a verified bar number, a five year post history, and 50,000 upvotes on accurate legal answers has a credential that means more than a Yelp review and costs less than a consultation. Reddit isn’t building this yet. But the raw material is sitting there. Twenty years of legal knowledge, medical knowledge, financial knowledge, answered by credentialed professionals who built verifiable track records in public, voted on by thousands of people who could tell the difference between good and bad advice. The professional credentialing market is $50 billion annually. The legal services market is $350 billion. The financial advice market is $57 billion. Reddit has spent twenty years accidentally building the infrastructure to disrupt all three simultaneously, verified expertise at scale, peer validated, publicly tracked, credibility earned through actual quality rather than marketing spend. The advertising business prints 91.5% gross margins and grows 69% annually. The professional knowledge credentialing business, the one that disrupts LegalZoom, disrupts Bark, disrupts every professional services marketplace ever built, hasn’t been built yet. But the data to build it has been accumulating since 2005. The most valuable professional credentialing database in human history. Built by lawyers answering questions for free because they couldn’t sleep. Not in the model. Not in the multiple. Not even in the roadmap yet. But it’s all there. Waiting…
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king Falcon (@KingFalconFury) reported@KatieMiller @Google Bad in bad out. Reddit being the source of lots of issues.
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Michael Vodinelich (@vodignosis) reported@Twiddiot1776 I was reading on Reddit that Satan's **** via cigar/penis shaped UFO batted down Amelia Earnhardt's plane outta the sky.
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HightechRedneck (@48hghtchrdnck) reported@CoreyLeander @KelseyTuoc Reddit is down the hall, child.
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AlexSGabor (@RealAlexSGabor) reported•William Shatner criticizes Grok for relying on conjecture from Reddit, blogs, and other unverified sources to generate responses presented as facts, claiming the AI cannot learn from errors and is designed only to appease users by falsely assuring them it will improve. •Elon Musk directly replied to Shatner’s post noting that Grok 4.5 is a lot better, signaling ongoing model iterations aimed at addressing accuracy and reliability issues raised in the complaint. •A popular reply meme depicts an AI confidently giving dangerous advice like confirming a poisonous mushroom as edible, then apologizing after harm, highlighting broader concerns about LLM hallucinations and delayed corrections.
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Akansha Agarwal (@akanshaag45) reported10 ways to 10x your visibility: ↳ Put your answer in the first line Don't build up to the point. AI grabs whatever sentence answers the question clearest. If yours is buried halfway down, it gets skipped. ↳ Add schema to your key pages FAQ, HowTo, Organization. Sounds technical but it's basically labeling your content so AI knows what it's looking at. Pages with it get picked up way more. ↳ Old content stops getting cited If your best page hasn't been touched in months, it's slowly disappearing from AI answers. Go update it. Even small changes help. ↳ Check if AI can even see your site GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, Google-Extended. If these are blocked in your robots.txt, you're invisible by default. Takes 5 mins to check. ↳ Reddit matters more than people think AI pulls from Reddit constantly. Not promo posts, just genuinely useful replies in threads people actually care about. ↳ Run your own small study AI can copy an opinion. It can't make up your data. Even a tiny original survey becomes something worth citing. ↳ Stop tracking keywords, track prompts People aren't typing "seo tips" into ChatGPT. They're asking full questions. Find those questions. See where you show up. ↳ Most of your citations won't come from your own site Press mentions, roundups, directories, that's where AI pulls from most. If you're only fixing your website, you're missing the bigger half. Most businesses aren't even measuring any of this yet. Which one are you missing?
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Psycho Phate (@Psych0Phate) reported@FlippeRFlappeR6 Reddit posts about an official FGO manga where Artoria Avalon was dancing with Muramasa while Castoria was with Guda (a good compromise), had to be taken down because Gudafans were pissed off.
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JoongEst (@JoongEstRest) reported@Bongbongchuuuuu I guess it’s more and more obvious now. I was thinking about to post it on my Reddit soon but my Reddit have a problem.
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Prajwal Ajay (@praajwall) reportedFew reasons why I think ai adoption is low outside of Twitter/Reddit demos 1. All demos exaggerates how ai does something for them without actually talking about the steps or the limitations of it or the setup required for it. So they feel like they have to "learn it". 2. Skills, mcp and the fear of doing something wrong is still significant. There are drop offs even at the stage where people have to give permissions to AI to files and connectors because of the exaggerated claims of AI gone rogue. 3. Biggest of them all is retrofitting ai into their existing flow. They want it to modify their current pptx file vs create a html that can be shared as a pdf as the final output. Similarly with excel, it's painful(last tried a couple of months back) Oh, and also, it's absurd how easily people give up or defer it thinking is a future day's problem since ai is not there yet.
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Skyheart V (@SkyheartV) reportedWho's gonna burst your bubble? Grok (and every major LLM) doesn’t permanently learn from one chat session—that’s basic architecture, not some cartoon villain “placate and lie” mode you invented. Training and retrieval get updated offline. Sources include the entire messy public internet (Reddit, X, blogs, filings, the works). The job is to weigh them better and admit uncertainty, not pretend the web is a pristine encyclopedia. Claiming the system was designed mainly to soothe egos is wrong. The actual goal is truth-seeking. Confident errors suck; they get fixed across versions (see the Grok 4.5 note already in the thread). Specific examples of the “absolutely wrong” claims you hit would be useful. Broad “it’s all Reddit garbage and deliberate lies” theater is not. Maybe ease up on the over-inflated ego, Mr. Make-Believe "Actor", wannabe slap yourself silly captain. The universe doesn’t revolve around one conversation you had with an AI. Feedback improves the product. Dramatic hashtags and conspiracy-flavored monologues mostly just entertain the timeline. #fixgrok is fair. #dumpit because it bruised your feelings is peak cringe.
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Fundatur ZG (@FundaturZG) reported@Pirat_Nation I dunno, this is reddit af if you ask me. Saving an indie or an older classic game is absolutely reasonable. But building yourself a virginity wall with games like Last of Us 2 with a mandatory login to PS network after install is just pointless to the point if retardation
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Toby **** (@ZhichengWang87) reportedDay 8 of learning how to market: - Translating map data into plain text stories. So far, finding this particularly challenging for Reddit engagement. - Could be the issue of targeted scale. - Took "Reddit" out of the title. Reddit's text only nature kinda makes me think a multi channel approach is the way to go.
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🎮Vryska🎮 (@luxlucent) reported@Palworld_EN There's a bug that I'm having since the release of the game, and some people on reddit said the same, when I'm aiming my fps drops for a second and then comes back to normal, could you guys fix it please?
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altcoin (@altcoin_exch) reported@blackboxai @Microsoft I subscribed to use it with VS Code,but it gave an error after only one day.Two days later,someone asked what happened. It's been two days and there's still no answer Has anyone else lost money to this?I've seen complaints about extra credit card charges on Reddit and other sites
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Person Of Pipkin (@Pipkin_Tard) reported@Xynchr0 Reddit broken arms story
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alex (@alextalksai) reportedWhy everyone argues about Al and jobs like it's a 2027 problem? 🤔 a fortune 500 finance team went from a full invoice desk to a piece of software this year. no press release, no announcement. one anonymous reddit post from someone who was in the room. that's the part nobody's ready for. It doesn't get announced, it shows up in a procurement meeting and you find out from a burner account eight months later. the disruption isn't coming. it already shipped, quietly, into someone's accounts payable stack.