Kickstarter outage on 9 November 2026
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“Partial System Outage”
Kickstarter had a critical outage on 9 November affecting kickstarter.com, which lasted 34 minutes from 17:17 to 17:51 UTC. The status page gave a shorter account: its incident, "Elevated Errors on Kickstarter.com," was open from 17:16 to 17:27, when it posted an all-clear after monitoring the site. Webflow and Musixmatch also had problems at around the same time.
Kickstarter’s own incident page ↗- When
- 17:17–17:51 UTC
- How long
- 34 min
- Incident open on its page
- 17:16–17:27 UTC
- Components affected
- 1
- 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 97 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: major outage
- Resolved
- kickstarter.com: 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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