Kickstarter outage on 5 October 2026
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“Minor Service Outage”
On 5 October, Kickstarter had a critical outage from 15:59 to 16:27 UTC (28 minutes) that affected kickstarter.com and the mobile apps, and the status page reported that login and signup were prevented. Kickstarter's status page gave a shorter account, listing both components in major outage only from 15:59 to 16:09 and marking the incident resolved at 16:09. PowerSchool also reported a minor issue with degraded application performance at the same time.
Kickstarter’s own incident page ↗- When
- 15:59–16:27 UTC
- How long
- 28 min
- Incident open on its page
- 15:58–16:09 UTC
- Components affected
- 2
- Kickstarter, 30 days before
- No other outages
What broke when
From Kickstarter’s own status page: when it moved each component into trouble, and back.
At the same time
Started in the hour before or during it
And 75 lesser-known services. Problems at the same time are a clue, never proof that one caused another.
Timeline
Times in UTC
- Cause identified
- kickstarter.com: partial outage
- Mobile: partial outage
- Resolved
- kickstarter.com: back to normal
- Mobile: back to normal
Where this comes from
Stackpulse reads Kickstarter’s official status page at status.kickstarter.com every minute. The times above are when it reported the problem; the summary is written from its updates and checked against them.
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