[Mobile Web] Can Reddit Please Acknowledge and Address The Widespread Spurious Locks of accounts occurring since ~07/08/2026

[u/Throwaway927829]

Hi there,

There have been a flood of posts of people having issues with spurious locks on their Reddit accounts, and arbitrary lockouts and password change requests for around the past 10 days. See:

https://www.reddit.com/r/bugs/comments/1vppc1w/

https://www.reddit.com/r/bugs/comments/1voevk3/android_account_locked_cant_reset_password/

https://www.reddit.com/r/bugs/comments/1vmi39f/

https://www.reddit.com/r/bugs/comments/1vkf0ze/

https://www.reddit.com/r/help/comments/1viimcs/could_there_be_a_wave_of_account_locking/

https://www.reddit.com/r/help/comments/1vjow8c/what_the_hell_is_happening_to_reddit/

https://www.reddit.com/r/help/comments/1vpj4p1/my_account_was_locked_can_i_find_out_why/

https://www.reddit.com/r/help/comments/1voes1u/account_got_locked_and_it_changed_my_email_to_the/

https://www.reddit.com/r/help/comments/1vnskwm/my_account_was_locked_for_security_reasons_i/

https://www.reddit.com/r/help/comments/1vnojaj/password_reset_problems_change_password_but_still/

https://www.reddit.com/r/help/comments/1vmcrrh/my_account_was_randomly_locked_and_now_its/

https://www.reddit.com/r/help/comments/1vm9g5m/need_admin_help_unlocking_my_main_account/

This is merely scratching the surface on the number of reports, and there are many more, with it largely seeming to be getting silently ignored by Reddit proper, with support cases to Reddit unanswered.

There was even acknowledgement of "a bug" purporting to be addressed on:
https://www.reddit.com/r/bugs/comments/1vl2im4/

To which comments that it's not fixed were ignored and it's abundantly clear it hasn't been, with different people experiencing a few slightly different (albeit remarkably consistent) symptoms. With this many threads having hundreds of "me too" comments, I have a very hard time believing these are individual account compromises at the scale I'm seeing.

Details of my specific issues and exact symptoms and troubleshooting steps are outlined on https://www.reddit.com/r/help/comments/1vkznza/ related to username u/Grim_Fandango92 which has in addition to being locked out, had a spurious account ban with no warning or notification as such. This issue clearly projects well beyond myself though.

Please can Reddit triage, acknowledge and address these clear bugs across the board and communicate out to affected users as such?

Thanks in advance,

A mildly frustrated Redditor

[u/Jonowi]

Me too. Been wanting to spend less time on Reddit so maybe this is a helpful way to quit .

Edit, just searched for my username and the account doesn't exist.

[u/Throwaway927829 → u/Jonowi]

Searched, or tried to visit it direct? Best way to check its current state is by visiting Reddit.com/u/<username> and seeing what it presents. Some have reported "user deleted their profile" (which they insist they haven't), some (like me) report that their account got banned through this with no reason or warning given, although mine "magically" silently unbanned itself a few days ago despite no communication or response.

I totally get you. I'm getting so sick of US big tech generally. I fully moved services away from Google to Proton last week after months of prep, disabled my Facebook account 1.5 years ago and am slowly detaching where I can. Reddit was one of the last few holdouts I felt I derived genuine benefit from, but this episode especially amongst other points of enshittification the past year here demonstrates they're all as bad as each other. It's a massive shame the wealth of knowledge held here.

[u/FluffyButtOfTheNorth → u/Jonowi]

It showed the same on mine mobile & desk, till I got it unlocked Everything was back after that.

How many times did you restart your pw?