Is Substack down?

Status: ✅ OK

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

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Substack outage map · 2026-02-12

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

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Substack is down I guess?

of course Substack goes down the moment i actually have something i want to publish 🙃

i had to refresh several times, even checked my email to ensure i hadn't received the suspension email. Only to realise that #Substack is down again

ARRGGG Substack is down!

*sigh* @Substack is down

Is substack down for anyone else?

#substack is down @Substack

Substack is down

.@SubstackInc is down for me

🚨🚨🚨 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

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.

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.

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...