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Increased latency on post publishing

Degraded Lasted 1h 24m · started · Substack's page

Level
confirmed
Worst impact
Degraded
Components
Substack publications, Writer dashboards
Down Index
24of 100

What to do

  • Check whether you use Substack Substack publications, Writer dashboards. Check your stack

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  • Confirm your retries, queues and scheduled jobs caught up after the 1h 24m it lasted.

    Anything that failed between 2026-10-29 03:12 UTC and 2026-10-29 04:36 UTC may need a replay.
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Updates from Substack 3

  1. identified

    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.

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  2. identified

    We are continuing to work on a fix for this issue.

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  3. resolved

    This incident has been resolved.

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Corrections

None so far.

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Questions about DWN-5379e06cb5

Is Substack still down?

No, this incident was resolved 2026-10-29 04:36 UTC. For Substack's live state, see https://down.guide/substack.

How long did it last?

1h 24m, from 2026-10-29 03:12 UTC to 2026-10-29 04:36 UTC, by the times Substack posted.

What was affected?

Substack named Substack publications, Writer dashboards.

What caused it?

Substack hasn't published a root cause. If it does, it shows here.

Where does this come from?

Substack's official status page, https://substack.statuspage.io, quoted verbatim. down.guide's own probes, reports and social counts are labeled as ours.