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Current Substack publications status
Substack publications is working normally
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Substack publications service health. Issues reported in the last 24 hours
Check 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.
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Substack publications recent outages and downtime history
IsDown has tracked 46 incidents for Substack publications since started monitoring Substack status in April 2020. We collect data from 4522+ services, and normalize the data to give you a clear picture of the impact of the outage. It will show official Substack publications outages and also issues that we're started by a spike in crowdsource reports.
| Date | Incident | Duration |
|---|---|---|
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Sep 15, 2025
03:24 PM UTC
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Minor
We are currently investigating reports of increased latency and slow response times across Substack.
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about 4 hours |
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Jun 23, 2025
05:45 PM UTC
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Minor
We are currently investigating a higher error rate when trying to load Substack
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about 12 hours |
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Jun 23, 2025
04:50 PM UTC
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Minor
We are currently investigating a higher error rate when trying to load Substack
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about 1 hour |
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Apr 29, 2025
05:03 PM UTC
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Major
We are currently investigating this issue.
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about 2 hours |
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Jan 21, 2025
11:44 PM UTC
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Major
We are investigating reports of increased latency and errors for Substack.com, publication websit...
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about 1 hour |
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Dec 13, 2024
04:21 PM UTC
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Major
We are experiencing an outage, but we are recovering.
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about 1 hour |
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Oct 10, 2024
07:40 PM UTC
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Minor
We are currently investigating an issue related to managing subscriptions.
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about 1 hour |
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Oct 04, 2024
01:40 PM UTC
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Minor
We have identified a bug where some posts where automatically paywalled incorrectly. We are curre...
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about 10 hours |
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Aug 23, 2024
05:36 PM UTC
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Major
We are investigating reports of increased errors and Latency from all Substack services.
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about 2 hours |
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Aug 13, 2024
07:24 PM UTC
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Major
We are investigating reports of increased error rates across Substack.
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21 minutes |
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