Is Substack down?

Status: ✅ OK

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

Substack is a creator-first publishing platform that combines email newsletters, web posts, and reader subscriptions.

Contacts:

📈 User Reports and Outages in the Last 24 Hours

Outages are identified by unusual patterns or anomalies in user report activity

🌐 Substack Outage Map

The map is generated based on the locations of users who submitted reports on the site

Substack outage map · 2025-11-19

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

During the past 24 hours, we have received report mainly from Charbuy, 🇫🇷 France

Nov

Oct

🔎 Social Media Monitoring

We monitor social media to detect signals that indicate issues with services

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.

28d

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...

29d