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Substack is operational
Updated a few minutes ago
Substack is operational
Updated a few minutes ago
Monitoring since
April 2020
Monitoring
5 components
Total Incidents in 2025
2 incidents
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This chart displays the number of user-reported issues over the past 24 hours, grouped into 20-minute intervals. It's normal to see occasional reports, which may be due to individual user issues rather than a broader problem. We only consider an issue widespread if there are multiple reports within a short timeframe.
Christine
about 4 hours agoUnable to load app or website
Ellen
about 4 hours agoseems like substack's been hacked
Megan
about 4 hours agoNothing loads under home tab, when I select an option in the inbox it won’t load or I get an error message, selections are timing out or constantly loading, when I select a message I get a pop up of “X”, an evening news update from Aaron Parnas that I opened up earlier will not play now.
Jen
about 4 hours agoWeb page and app won't load
Kay
about 4 hours ago503 error on all parts of Substack via app
Kathleen
about 4 hours agoNot loading getting error message
Elaine
about 4 hours agoKeeps showing an error message instead of the writers (on all pages)
Meaghan
about 4 hours agowill not load, 502 gateway error
Patricia
about 4 hours agoPage says 502 Bad Gateway. Also I got an email from you that says "Your email has been unsubscribed. " And the email has a different email. Not my email in the body of the email. This is my email patriciatiffanymorris@gmail.com. This is NOT my email: Email: theannaames@outlook.com Prior st...
Janille
about 4 hours agoI couldn’t look at my chats or home page. Now I get a 502 error and can’t login or do anything at all.
christy
about 4 hours agocan’t open it. Says error 502 🤷
Wendy
about 4 hours agoWon't load Bad gateway 502 message
Tamara
about 4 hours agoUnable to log in. Not sure if it's related to not being able to listen to substack podcast via podcast app or from email to browser on iphone. Which is why I was trying to log in.
Lynn
about 4 hours agoTrouble loading getting error message.
Carrie
about 4 hours agoGetting an error. Code 502. On phone app and on Chrome for Macbook
David
about 4 hours agocant access to the website
Krista
about 4 hours agoLogin problems then problems with news feed
Jeannine
about 4 hours agowon't load at all Error 502
Naomi
about 4 hours ago502 Bad Gateway - site will not load, app will not load
JB
about 4 hours ago502 and 504 errors. Won't load on mobile or desktop
Mark
about 5 hours ago504 Gateway Time-Out on multiple devices.
Hilary
about 5 hours agoIt won't load on my phone or computer. It was working earlier today.
Rasa
about 5 hours agoNot loading. An error occurred
Meg
about 5 hours agohttp error 502 when going to substack.com
Shannon
about 5 hours agoWebsite and app will not load
Jeffrey
about 5 hours agoPosts won't load. The primary entry page to the Substack site won't load.
Kelsey
about 5 hours agoApp wouldn’t load. I closed it completely. Restarted my phone. And now it just loads completely blank. iPhone 12pro max.
Natalie
about 5 hours agoKeeps reporting an "error logging in" even though user name and pass word are correct.
Kat
about 5 hours agoWebsite and all links to posts result in "502 Bad Gateway"
Jo’Rie
about 5 hours agoError message then no access to the site while trying to make a post.
Irena
about 5 hours agonot saving article draft, timing out
Andrew
about 5 hours agoNot loading. 502 Bad Gateway
Eric
1 day agoSubstack crash in iOS iPhone
Xander
4 days agoApp opens and then shuts down immediately
Jo
7 days agoWhenever I click on a link from a Substack email (including the "Unsubscribe" option), I just get a "Something has gone terribly wrong" error. This has been going on for over a week.
Anne
11 days agoUnable to play HCR reading her latest letter.
Michael
18 days agoMy substack Coldwater Economics keeps telling me a) something has gone terribly wrong, and b) when I try to write, I keep getting 'network error' messages. I have a couple of other substacks, which seem to be fine.
Suzanne
26 days agoIt won't allow access whichever way I try, keeps saying there's an error
Scott
26 days agoSubstack reported scheduled maintenance til 0500 UTC Dec 27. It is now 20 minutes past that and still down.
kaz
26 days agoI cannot load articles of substack now
Paul
26 days agoError 503, pages not loading
Oliver
26 days agoThrew me out. I can't log in.
Nancy
26 days agoI have no access to Substack
Ingrid
26 days agoError code on phone; won’t load
Virginia
26 days agoApp suddenly stopped working. Cannot access.
Kristin
26 days agoMy main feed won’t load. Had an error message.
Richard
26 days agoCan't sign. Receive an error message.
Tim
about 1 month agoHome page and Publisher Dashboard won't load.
Jonathan
about 1 month agoHome page not loading. Get an error message.
Emily
about 1 month agomy scheduled post from this morning did not send out, and now I can't access any part of the site/dashboard!
David
about 1 month agoBoth the author's backend dashboard and users' frontend are down.
Rayna
about 1 month agoIt's not loading on my phone. 😞
Joyce
2 months agoCover page shows. None of the people I'm following are on this page. Symbols of what you might do. No response when you select one.
Lynn
2 months agoCannot access my account and received a message from Substack pon refreshing the page stating that something has gone terribly wrong
Dave
2 months agoNot able to access anything except my currently stored posts on my iOS app.
Abby
2 months agoEverything disappeared and got a “something has gone terribly wrong” Error message
Ernest
2 months agoCan’t launch Website or App.
Hannah
4 months agoError loading, bad gateway. Seems to be completely down
Renee
4 months agoNewsletters won’t load in the app. I getting an error message
Ben
4 months agoarticles won't open; infinite loading screen
IsDown has tracked 166 incidents since started monitoring Substack status in April 2020.
about 5 hours ago · lasted about 1 hour
We are investigating reports of increased latency and errors for Substack.com, publication websites, and the Substack app. More details
12 days ago · lasted about 3 hours
We are currently investigating this issue. More details
about 1 month ago · lasted about 1 hour
We are currently investigating this issue. More details
We've tracked and collected 166 incidents since started monitoring Substack status
Number of Incidents
2 issues
Last incident
1 days ago
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IsDown monitors Substack for major outages. A major outage is when Substack experiences a critical issue that severely affects one or more services/regions. When Substack marks an incident as a major outage, IsDown updates its internal status, the customer status page and dashboard. Depending on the customer settings, IsDown will also send notifications.
IsDown monitors Substack status page for minor outages. A minor outage is when Substack experiences a small issue affecting a small percentage of its customer's applications. An example is the performance degradation of an application. When a minor outage occurs, IsDown updates its internal status and shares that information on the customer status page. Depending on the customer settings, IsDown will also send notifications.
IsDown collects all information from the outages published in Substack status page to provide the most accurate information. If available, we gather the title, description, time of the outage, status, and outage updates. Another important piece of information is the affected services/regions which we use to filter the notifications that impact your business.
Substack publishes scheduled maintenance events on their status page. IsDown collects all the information for each event and creates a feed that people can follow to ensure they are not surprised by unexpected downtime or problems. We also send the feed in our weekly report, alerting the next maintenances that will take place.
IsDown monitors Substack and all their 5 components that can be affected by an outage. IsDown allows you to filter the notifications and status page alerts based on the components you care about. For example, you can choose which components or regions affect your business and filter out all other outages. This way you avoid alert fatigue in your team.
Substack and other vendors don’t always report outages on time. Our crowdsourced status platform helps you stay ahead of outages. Users report issues and outages, sharing details on what problems they are facing. We use that info to provide early signs of outages. This way, even without an official update, you can stay ahead of possible problems.
Substack isn't down. You can check Substack status and incident details on the top of the page. IsDown continuously monitors Substack official status page every few minutes. In the last 24 hours, there were 3 outages reported.
Substack is currently operational. You can check Substack status and incident details on the top of the page. The status is updated in almost real-time, and you can see the latest outages and issues affecting customers.
No, there is no ongoing official outage. Check on the top of the page if there are any reported problems by other users.
Currently there's no report of Substack being slow. Check on the top of the page if there are any reported problems by other users.
IsDown monitors the Substack official status page every few minutes. We also get reports from users like you. If there are enough reports about an outage, we'll show it on the top of the page.
Substack last outage was on January 21, 2025 with the title "Increased latency and errors"
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