Is Medium Down?
Reachable from all 8 checked regions
Average response time: 184ms
Last checked · checks run every 6 hours
Official status page: https://status.medium.com
Medium uptime
Measured from multiple regions every 6 hours. Percentages count only checks that returned an availability answer — 10 days measured so far. A dash means that window does not yet hold enough measured days to publish a figure.
30-day history
10-day clean streakReachability by region
Each region runs its own request from a different part of the world. A service can be up for one continent and down for another, which is usually the first sign of a routing or CDN problem.
What Medium does
Medium is a publishing platform where writers post articles to a shared readership rather than to a site they host themselves. Publications, member-only stories and a paid subscription programme sit on top of it. Many companies also point a custom domain at Medium for an engineering blog, so an outage can take a company blog down with it.
What an outage looks like
Articles return an error page, or load with the header rendered and no body text. The editor fails to save a draft, or saving stops silently while typing continues. Member-only stories stay behind the paywall for paying subscribers. Custom domains pointed at Medium can fail while the medium.com address itself works, so a company blog goes down alone.
What to do about it
Check status.medium.com, Medium's current status page. The older address at medium.statuspage.io was retired in September 2025 and is no longer maintained, so a green light there means nothing at all. Copy any draft out of the editor before reloading the page, since an unsaved draft is the one thing an outage can genuinely cost you.
Is it down for everyone, or just you?
If this page says Medium is up but it is not loading for you, the problem is between you and them. Run a check against any URL from all 18 regions to find out where it breaks.
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Medium outage FAQ
Which Medium status page is the current one?
Is my draft lost if Medium goes down?
Why is our company blog down when medium.com works?
Do member-only stories fail differently?
How we measure this
- We request Medium's public endpoint every 6 hours from Fly.io regions across six continents — 8 of them answered the most recent check.
- A region counts as down only when it gets no usable HTTP response. A
403or429means the origin answered and refused us, which we report as blocked, never as an outage. - A single failing region is treated as probe noise. We only change the verdict when two consecutive cycles agree.
- Response times average only the regions that actually served the page, so a timeout never inflates the number.
- Where Medium publishes an official status feed we read it too. An all-clear from the vendor can soften an unconfirmed degradation; a vendor-declared outage only worsens our verdict when our own checks corroborate it.
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