ChatGPT explains why it's been slow: OpenAI status page confirms repeated October incidents
AggressiveCoast190 · reddit · 2026-10-21
A Reddit user asked their ChatGPT why it's been slow and "stupid" lately — and the model pulled OpenAI's official status page showing a confirmed degraded-performance incident affecting ChatGPT, Codex, and APIs on October 20–21, 2026, with mitigation applied Oct 20 at 10:27 PM.
The screenshot also lists a streak of recent incidents: Oct 14 Codex/ChatGPT Work degradation, Oct 13 GPT-6.1 Sol Codex performance degradation, Oct 5 elevated Codex Cloud errors, and Sep 29 widespread ChatGPT/Codex/API errors. If the model feels slower lately, it's not just you.
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