Is Substack down?

Status: ✅ OK

There is no indication that Substack is currently experiencing an outage.

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Substack outage map · 2025-12-29

No outages have been reported for Substack in the past 24 hours.

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🔎 Social Media Monitoring

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.@SubstackInc is down for me

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🚨🚨🚨 Right now (Dec 5, 2025) a bunch of major services are down or barely working: - @canva - @perplexity_ai - @SubstackInc - @downdetector - many others Everything points to a Cloudflare-related issue again. Getting 500/503 errors everywhere. If your favorite tool is

23d

Another cloudflare problem, this time preventing me from going on Substack. I'm glad that I made a stupidly simple website for myself, because it has no reliance on such systems, meaning it's always up (unless the server it's on goes down obviously). Stupid simple is the future.

23d

Once again Cloudflare down, as of now Quora, Substack are down, X might join the group soon. This just 2 weeks after the last major outage.

23d

Medium platform was down. Grammarly was gasping. Canva was glitching. Substack platform took a nap. Is the internet… having a burnout? 🫠 Maybe even our platforms need a digital detox.

Every Substack author woke up to find their scheduled post didn't go out on Monday October, 20th, 2025. Blame the AWS down event. Amazon Web Services (AWS) is currently experiencing a major outage that has taken down online services, games, apps, etc...