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🟡 ChatGPT and Codex decided to play Whack-a-Mole with their features—search down, conversations stuttering, image gen ghosted. OpenAI engineering team currently speed-running every troubleshooting guide on Stack Overflow. Half their product is 'investigating,' which is corporate speak for 'we have no idea which domino fell first.'. (Auto-resolved: no updates in 24h)

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

// The official story

Users unable to load ChatGPT and Codex

// Status page says

Status: Investigating We are continuing to investigate the issue for the listed services. Affected components Search (Partial outage) Conversations (Partial outage) Compliance API (Partial outage) Image Generation (Partial outage) GPTs (Partial outage) Deep Research (Partial outage) Connectors/Apps (Partial outage) File uploads (Partial outage) Voice mode (Part

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

https://status.openai.com//incidents/01KPNN2V2SMP3TAN3MCJK87W50

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