# Substack: Substack is experiencing issues
- Impact (vendor’s label): minor
- Status: resolved
- Started: 2025-11-18 14:39 UTC · Resolved: 2025-11-18 15:16 UTC · Duration: 38 min
- Updates: 3 · Affected components: Writer dashboards, Substack publications, Substack.com, Custom domains
- [Vendor status page: https://stspg.io/grb13w847b0b](https://stspg.io/grb13w847b0b)
- [Company: Substack](https://rewindex.com/company/substack.md)
## Part of an outage event
- [Cloudflare outage, Nov 18, 2025: 77 vendors, 81 incidents](https://rewindex.com/events/2025-11-18-cloudflare)
- This incident started in the same window without naming Cloudflare (timing only, not evidence of a link). (timing only, posted +3 h 9 min vs the first vendor naming Cloudflare)
```mermaid
flowchart LR
root["Cloudflare
own incident not archived"]:::inferred
h1["Within an hour
13 vendors, 13 blamed Cloudflare
Stytch, Zed, NordLayer +10"]:::blames
root --> h1
h4["1 to 4 hours later
19 vendors, 19 blamed Cloudflare
GitLab, Gorgias, Cursor +16"]:::blames
root --> h4
later["Later
7 vendors, 7 blamed Cloudflare
RudderStack, Brex, Maven Central +4"]:::blames
root --> later
me["Substack (this incident)
posted +3 h 9 min"]:::me
root -.->|"same window"| me
```
_Detected automatically from incidents that started together and named the same provider; a link means one incident named another vendor, not a confirmed cause._
## Timeline of updates
- **investigating** 2025-11-18 14:39 UTC: We are experiencing issues caused by a service provider, some access to Substack might be limited
- **monitoring** 2025-11-18 14:45 UTC: A fix has been implemented and we are monitoring the results.
- **resolved** 2025-11-18 15:16 UTC: This incident has been resolved.
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Canonical: https://rewindex.com/company/substack/incidents/0nrs65fcbknr · Markdown: https://rewindex.com/company/substack/incidents/0nrs65fcbknr.md · JSON: https://rewindex.com/api/v1/companies/substack/incidents/0nrs65fcbknr · Generated 2026-10-20T00:01:48.152Z