r/outages is a subreddit with 10k members. The most common kinds of discussions are news and pain & anger, 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
News
: "Did aws us-east go down again?"
25 posts
#2
Pain & Anger
: "Cloudflare went down again :)))"
20 posts
#3
Advice Requests
: "So many services are down right now, anyone have any idea why?"
3 posts
Popular Topics in r/outages
#1
Outage
: "[Update] Cause of global Outage (OpenAI, Claude, X) appears to be failed Cloudflare maintenance"
176 posts
#2
Internet
: "AWS outage: Proof the Internet's original design has been completely gutted."
116 posts
#3
Down
: "Cloudflare went Down again :)))"
84 posts
#4
Outages
42 posts
#5
Issues
22 posts
#6
Service
22 posts
#7
Aws
: "Did Aws us-east go down again?"
17 posts
#8
Microsoft
: "Microsoft 365 admin pages down?"
17 posts
#9
Widespread
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."
33 posts
#2
Minor Outage
: "What’s up with Pandora right now?"
9 posts
#3
Question
: "Ongoing worldwide outage/slowdown?"
3 posts
#4
Isolated Issue
: "Several picture sharing platforms are down or "undergoing maintenance". Is there a story behind this?"
1 post
Member Growth in r/outages
Yearly
+4k members(80.4%)
Similar Subreddits to r/outages
r/centurylink
10k members
9.7% / yr
r/CharterSpectrum
849 members
3.9% / yr
r/ClaudeAI
1.1M members
245.0% / yr
r/Cogeco
1k members
0.3% / yr
r/Comcast_Xfinity
85k members
29.9% / yr
r/CoxCommunications
10k members
18.6% / yr
r/de_EDV
231k members
13.1% / yr
r/Starlink_Support
17k members
15.9% / yr
r/sysadmin
1.3M members
13.8% / yr
r/technology
20.5M members
2.8% / yr
About
GummySearch helps people research Reddit communities by organizing activity, growth, themes, and post-level signals into one place.
This page gives a focused view of r/outages, including current member size, discussion patterns, product reviews, and related communities to explore.
This data is synced periodically so insights stay current and useful for ongoing research.
Last updated: September 1, 2026