r/outages is a subreddit with 9k members. The most common kinds of discussions are pain & anger and news, and the community frequently discusses outage, internet, down, outages, and issues.
A place to discuss internet and online service outages as they happen. And to reflect on and discuss past major incidents.
From ISPs and cloud providers to major apps and platforms, this community focuses on disruptions that affect large numbers of users.
For personal tech support, look elsewhere.
Popular Themes in r/outages
#1
Pain & Anger
: "Cloudflare went down again :)))"
32 posts
#2
News
: "Did aws us-east go down again?"
32 posts
#3
Advice Requests
: "So many services are down right now, anyone have any idea why?"
2 posts
Popular Topics in r/outages
#1
Outage
: "great internet Outage of 6/12/25"
176 posts
#2
Internet
: "great Internet outage of 6/12/25"
116 posts
#3
Down
: "Why is everything Down"
84 posts
#4
Outages
: "Widespread Outages?"
42 posts
#5
Issues
: "Aws Issues on east coast"
22 posts
#6
Service
: "Fios and Xfinity down along the east coast. Who knows why?"
22 posts
#7
Aws
: "Did Aws us-east go down again?"
17 posts
#8
Microsoft
: "Microsoft 365 admin pages down?"
17 posts
#9
Widespread
: "Facebook/Insta"
14 posts
#10
Cloudflare
: "Cloudflare Global Network experiencing issues [Official Update]"
14 posts
Flair Used in r/outages
#1
Major Outage
: "Downdetector is also down right now, how ironic."
11 posts
#2
Question
: "Ongoing worldwide outage/slowdown?"
1 post
Member Growth in r/outages
Yearly
+4k members(78.5%)
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Last updated: June 28, 2026