Is Substack down?
Live Substack status, outage reports and problems from the last 12 hours.
No, it's up
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status.substack.comOperational· Status page right now
Substack says everything is up
- Custom domains
- Email delivery
- Push Notifications
- Subscription invoice processing
- Substack publications
- Substack.com
- +1 more, all up
This incident has been resolved.
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Past Substack outages
6 in the last 90 days
- Oct2811 PM UTC · lasted 5 hSubstack · Increased latency on post publishing70/hr
- Oct281 PM UTC · lasted 6 hNo update from Substack18/hr
- Oct222 AM UTC · lasted 2 hNo update from Substack80/hr
- Oct216 PM UTC · lasted 1 hNo update from Substack10/hr
- Oct910 PM UTC · lasted 1 hSubstack · Elevated latencies220/hr
- Aug184 AM UTC · lasted 1 hSubstack · Issues loading Notes16/hr
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Is Substack down right now?
No, it's up. 0 reports in the last hour.
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What problems are people reporting with Substack?
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When was the last Substack outage?
Reports last spiked on Oct 28 and settled after about 5 hours.
Does Substack have a status page?
Yes. Substack posts updates on its official status page, which currently says operational. Go to status page →
What can I do if Substack isn't working?
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