# Kickstarter outage on 5 October 2026

> 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.

- Service: [Kickstarter](https://stackpulse.app/services/kickstarter.md)
- Severity: critical
- Title on the status page: Minor Service Outage
- Started: 2026-10-05 15:59 UTC
- Ended: 2026-10-05 16:27 UTC
- Lasted: 28 min
- Incident open on the status page: 15:58–16:09 UTC
- The status page's incident: https://stspg.io/8cljbkvqnt2m
- Page: https://stackpulse.app/services/kickstarter/outages/2026-10-05-1559

## What broke when (UTC)

| Component | Status | From | To |
|---|---|---|---|
| kickstarter.com | partial outage | 2026-10-05 15:59 | 2026-10-05 16:09 |
| Mobile | partial outage | 2026-10-05 15:59 | 2026-10-05 16:09 |

## At the same time

- [PowerSchool](https://stackpulse.app/services/powerschool.md): issue from 2026-10-05 15:09 UTC

Problems at the same time are a clue, never proof that one caused another.

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