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Current Substack publications status

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Substack publications service health. Issues reported in the last 24 hours

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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.

Date Incident Duration
Sep 15, 2025
05:24 PM CEST
Minor
We are currently investigating reports of increased latency and slow response times across Substack.
about 4 hours
Jun 23, 2025
07:45 PM CEST
Minor
We are currently investigating a higher error rate when trying to load Substack
about 12 hours
Jun 23, 2025
06:50 PM CEST
Minor
We are currently investigating a higher error rate when trying to load Substack
about 1 hour
Apr 29, 2025
07:03 PM CEST
Major
We are currently investigating this issue.
about 2 hours
Jan 22, 2025
12:44 AM CET
Major
We are investigating reports of increased latency and errors for Substack.com, publication websit...
about 1 hour
Dec 13, 2024
05:21 PM CET
Major
We are experiencing an outage, but we are recovering.
about 1 hour
Oct 10, 2024
09:40 PM CEST
Minor
We are currently investigating an issue related to managing subscriptions.
about 1 hour
Oct 04, 2024
03:40 PM CEST
Minor
We have identified a bug where some posts where automatically paywalled incorrectly. We are curre...
about 10 hours
Aug 23, 2024
07:36 PM CEST
Major
We are investigating reports of increased errors and Latency from all Substack services.
about 2 hours
Aug 13, 2024
09:24 PM CEST
Major
We are investigating reports of increased error rates across Substack.
21 minutes
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Is Substack publications down today?

Substack publications isn't down. You can check Substack publications status and incident details on the top of the page. IsDown continuously monitors Substack publications official status page every few minutes. In the last 24 hours, there were 0 outages reported.

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Is there a Substack publications outage now?

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Is Substack publications down today or just slow?

Currently there's no report of Substack publications being slow. Check on the top of the page if there are any reported problems by other users.

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IsDown monitors the Substack publications 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.

Is Substack publications having an outage right now?

Substack publications last outage was on September 15, 2025 with the title "Substack experiencing increased latency"

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