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> However, according to the status page everything should be operational.

Seems like a recurring theme, and not even with Reddit in particular. Why is it so common that I as an end user will notice a problem before whatever system is in charge of the status page does?

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> Why is it so common that I as an end user will notice a problem before whatever system is in charge of the status page does?

Survival bias: only when you notice a problem before the system in charge of the status page does, is that you notice it. When you don't, you don't notice it.

This happens all the time with amazon too. So often someone created this: https://stop.lying.cloud/

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