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🔴 OpenAI's crown jewel went full Fort Knox—signups and logins dead in the water. Users refreshing their browser like it's a vending machine that ate their money. Engineers frantically searching for the 'undo' button in production. (Auto-resolved: no updates in 24h)

⏰ Aug 20, 2026 Fixed (for now) spotted via status_rss

// The official story

Chatgpt.com is down - all signups and logins are down as of right now

// Status page says

Status: Identified We have identified that users are experiencing login issues for the impacted services. We are working on implementing a mitigation.

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

https://status.openai.com//incidents/01M0E7K87VJNMGW0QTMHPEQQ39

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