Resolved · lasted 5 h
Substack outage on October 28
Reports for Substack jumped to 70 an hour and stayed high for 5 h.
- Started
- 11:00 PM
- October 28, 2026 · UTC
- Back to normal
- 4:00 AM
- 5 h later
- Peak
- 70/hr
- 70× normal
- Substack’s incident
- 1 h 24 min
- Increased latency on post publishing
Reports during the outage
9:00 PM5:50 AM UTC
What Substack said
status.substack.comResolved3:12 – 4:36 AM · 1 h 24 min
Increased latency on post publishing
- Resolved · 4:36 AM
This incident has been resolved.
- Identified · 3:16 AM
We are continuing to work on a fix for this issue.
- Identified · 3:12 AM
Publishing and post updates are slower than usual, and recent edits to published posts may take time to appear. We're working on a fix.
Substack posted its first update 4 h 13 min after reports started rising.
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