Ghostddit: what it shows, and what it depends on.

Ghostddit is a free viewer for the Arctic Shift Reddit archive: type a username or a subreddit, including banned and deleted ones, and browse the posts and comments as a feed. Its own FAQ is clear that the data is Arctic Shift's and not its own. So it shares Arctic Shift's limits (no keyword search across Reddit, gaps for content removed before capture, no uptime guarantee) and it stops working whenever Arctic Shift does. Use it to read an account or a community. For a keyword across the whole archive, use a full-text archive such as THINKPOL archive search.

Status. On our last check (12 November 2026 at 11:07 UTC), Ghostddit was responding (HTTP 200 in 0.2 s). We check every hour from a server in the EU: 98% of 51 hourly checks answered over the last 30 days. Full history on the status page.

What is Ghostddit?

Ghostddit lives at ghostddit.aeddit.com and calls itself a free viewer for the Reddit archive: search any subreddit or username, including banned and deleted accounts, and browse their posts and comments, with no login and no payment. The current version is labelled v2 and can be installed as an app.

Inside a user or a subreddit you can search with quotes for an exact phrase, OR between alternatives and a minus sign to exclude a word, then filter by date, by post type, and on a user page by up to eight subreddits.

Where does Ghostddit get its data?

From Arctic Shift. Ghostddit's FAQ says posts and comments come from the Arctic Shift Reddit archive, and that only the "top of all time" view is loaded live from Reddit when possible. It also says Ghostddit stores no data itself, which is why it sends removal requests to the archive provider.

This matters when you compare tools. Ghostddit, Rosint and ihsoyct look like three sources. They are three windows onto the same one or two archives. Checking a result in a second window does not confirm it.

Is Ghostddit down?

On our last check (12 November 2026 at 11:07 UTC), Ghostddit was responding (HTTP 200 in 0.2 s). On our last check (12 November 2026 at 11:07 UTC), the Arctic Shift API was responding (HTTP 200 in 1.8 s). The newest post it returned was 18 seconds old.

If the page loads but the feed stays empty, look at Arctic Shift first. We check both every hour on the status page.

Why Ghostddit is slow or shows odd numbers

Its FAQ explains each of these, and none of them is a bug.

• Slow search. The archive cannot search text on very active users and subreddits, so Ghostddit scans their history page by page and matches your words in the browser. Narrowing the date range helps.
• Hot, Top and Most Commented look different from Reddit. The archive cannot sort by score or comment count, so those views rank only the posts loaded so far and improve as you scroll.
• Old scores. Scores and comment counts can be out of date for roughly the first day and a half after posting.
• Silent videos. Reddit serves video sound as a separate file, so archived videos usually play without it.
• Missing items. The archive saves things shortly after they are posted. Anything removed before that is not there.

Banned subreddits and deleted accounts: what you actually get

Ghostddit can open a subreddit that Reddit has since banned, or an account that was deleted or suspended, because the archive kept the public posts made before. It cannot show private or quarantined communities, which Arctic Shift does not include, or anything that was removed before the archive saved it.

If you are trying to establish what a community or an account published, treat the feed as a lead and not as a record: there is no way to tell from the page what is missing. Our Reddit archive search guide covers how archives differ on exactly this point.

When Ghostddit is the better pick

• You want to read an account or a subreddit as a feed, with images, on a phone.
• The account or community is gone from Reddit and you want a free first look.
• Completeness does not matter for what you are doing.

Where it stops, and what to use instead

• A keyword across all of Reddit: not possible on Arctic Shift, so not possible here. THINKPOL archive search is free and searches the full text of the archive.
• One account's full history, deleted items included: THINKPOL user lookup, on an independent archive of 30 billion posts and comments since 2005.
• Content removed by moderators, recently: Reveddit, which reads Reddit's live API.
• Evidence you may have to defend: a supported archive with known coverage, not a viewer over a volunteer service.

How this page is made

Ghostddit's features, data source and limits are taken from its own page and FAQ, read on 10 November 2026. The status lines are refreshed every hour by an automated check that requests the home page only: a page that loads says nothing about the data behind it, which is why Arctic Shift is shown next to it. THINKPOL sells a commercial Reddit archive and offers its own free tools, so read the comparison with that in mind. Corrections: contact us.

Ghostddit, answered.

Is Ghostddit down right now?

On our last check (12 November 2026 at 11:07 UTC), Ghostddit was responding (HTTP 200 in 0.2 s). Ghostddit reads the Arctic Shift archive, so it can load and still show nothing when Arctic Shift does not answer. Both are checked every hour on our Reddit archive tools status page.

Where does Ghostddit data come from?

From the Arctic Shift Reddit archive, according to Ghostddit's own FAQ. Only the top of all time view is loaded live from Reddit. Ghostddit says it stores no data itself.

Can Ghostddit show banned subreddits and deleted accounts?

Yes, for what was public and captured before the ban or deletion, because the archive kept those posts. It cannot show private or quarantined communities, or content removed before the archive saved it.

Why is Ghostddit search slow?

Its FAQ says the archive cannot search text on very active users and subreddits, so Ghostddit scans their history in pages and matches your words in the browser. Narrowing the date range or choosing a post type makes it faster.

How do I get content removed from Ghostddit?

Ghostddit says it stores no data, so removal requests go to the archive provider, Arctic Shift, which links a removal form from its GitHub README. Ghostddit's removal page has the details.

What is a good Ghostddit alternative?

For a keyword search across all of Reddit, or a history that includes content the free archives missed, THINKPOL's free archive search and user lookup run on an independent archive of 30 billion posts and comments. Rosint and ihsoyct read the same sources as Ghostddit and share its gaps.

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