Resolved · lasted 1 h

Substack outage on August 18

Reports for Substack jumped to 16 an hour and stayed high for 1 h.

Started
4:00 AM
August 18, 2026 · UTC
Back to normal
5:00 AM
1 h later
Peak
16/hr
16× normal
Substack’s incident
32 min
Issues loading Notes

Reports during the outage

2:00 AM6:50 AM UTC

What Substack said

status.substack.com
Resolved4:23 – 4:54 AM · 32 min

Issues loading Notes

  1. Resolved · 4:54 AM

    This incident has been resolved.

  2. Investigating · 4:23 AM

    We are currently investigating this issue.

Substack posted its first update 23 min after reports started rising.

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