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🟡 OpenAI's flagship product decided to embrace the shotgun approach to reliability—conversations, search, logins, code generation, image creation all taking simultaneous coffee breaks. When your error rates spike across literally everything, that's not 'investigating,' that's 'oh god what did we deploy.'. (Auto-resolved: no updates in 24h)

⏰ Sep 03, 2026 Fixed (for now) spotted via status_rss

// The official story

ChatGPT Work Mode High Error Rates

// Status page says

Status: Investigating ChatGPT Work Mode is experiencing high error rates. We are investigating the issue. Affected components Conversations (Partial outage) Codex in ChatGPT Desktop (Partial outage) Sites (Partial outage) Search (Partial outage) Compliance API (Partial outage) Deep Research (Partial outage) Login (Partial outage) Image Generation (Partial outage) <

🔗 Official status page (for the PR-approved version)

https://status.openai.com//incidents/01M1J99EDCYED5GP2W8GZ3N2NA

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🔴 OPENAI 13h ago
🟡 OpenAI's desktop app decided Work threads are overrated. Users now experiencing the cutting-edge feature of threads that simply don't exist. Engineering team is 'investigating' what surely won't take 6 hours to fix.
🔴 OPENAI 13h ago
🟡 OpenAI's desktop app decided threads were too mainstream, now refusing to create them for regular users. Codex is having commitment issues. Engineers are investigating whether this was a feature or a bug—spoiler: it's a bug.
🟢 OPENAI 6d ago
🟡 OpenAI's login, signup, and ads infrastructure caught a sudden case of amnesia. Users can't get in, ads won't serve, and the API is playing dead. Nothing says 'we have this under control' like simultaneously breaking the front door and the cash register. (Auto-resolved: no updates in 24h)
🟢 OPENAI 6d ago
🟡 OpenAI's login system caught in an identity crisis—you can't get in, they can't get in, nobody gets in. The irony of an AI company unable to authenticate humans is *chef's kiss*. (Auto-resolved: no updates in 24h)