According to Dread administrator Paris, Tor's daemon nodes have gone offline en masse in recent days, making it easier for attackers to make sites like Dread inaccessible. ".

Dread is a popular community center, a Tor-based free speech platform, a Reddit-like discussion forum on the dark web, described as a "Reddit-style forum" and recognized as the successor to the censored "DeepDotWeb", featuring news and discussions on the dark web marketplace, and is currently the largest English-language forum on the dark web.