How DownRN works
Most outage trackers answer one question: is it down? DownRN answers four more: why, what else is going down with it, what can I use instead, and how sure are we — for the social, gaming, streaming, finance and everyday apps you actually use.
Three signals, not one
Different apps fail in different ways, so we combine up to three independent sources:
- Official status pages. When a service publishes a real status feed (Discord, Fortnite, Reddit, Cloudflare and many more), we read it automatically. It's authoritative — but often lags the first minutes of an incident.
- Our own checks. We run an independent reachability check from our servers. It can catch problems before a status page updates — so we use it where the website genuinely reflects the service.
- Your reports.For apps where the website stays up while the service is down — most games, streaming and messaging apps — the honest signal is the crowd. Tap “Down for me” on any page and you become part of the live picture.
The confidence engine
We never claim certainty we don't have. Every verdict carries a confidence level and shows the evidence behind it:
- High — independent sources agree (the vendor confirmed an incident, or everything looks healthy).
- Medium— sources conflict, like an official page still green while our checks or a report spike say otherwise. That's the early-warning window.
- Community-reported — no official feed exists, so the status is driven by user reports. We say so plainly instead of guessing.
The cascade — what else goes down with it
The apps you use run on a handful of companies and clouds. When AWS, Cloudflare, Meta or Google has an incident, everything built on it can go down too — frequently before anyone admits it. DownRN maps those public relationships, so an outage page also tells you the blast radius: which other apps are likely affected, and what still works. It's the part a plain “is it down” site can't show — always framed as likely impact, never confirmed causation.
Honest by default
We don't invent report counts, uptime percentages or outage durations. Numbers appear only when they're real measurements; until then we tell you exactly what we do and don't know. DownRN is independent and not affiliated with any of the companies it tracks.