ChatGPT signup and login paths fail for about 52 minutes
OpenAI's status page reported that all ChatGPT signups and logins were down on August 20. Elevated errors were identified at 00:02, login issues at 00:03, mitigation was applied by 00:25, and full recovery was reported at 00:54.
Why it matters: Identity is a shared availability boundary: even when model serving continues, new and returning web users cannot reach it. Applications that depend on interactive ChatGPT sessions need a clear degraded path and should not confuse model health with end-user…