Buttondown experienced a minor incident on April 2, 2026 affecting Subscriber-facing app and Author-facing app, lasting —. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.
Affected components
Update timeline
- investigating Mar 31, 2026, 08:20 PM UTC
Status: Investigating We're currently investigating reports that the Buttondown app is down. This is impacting both the author-facing Dashboard, as well as Archives. Affected components Author-facing app (Full outage) Subscriber-facing app (Full outage)
- monitoring Mar 31, 2026, 08:36 PM UTC
Status: Monitoring Both the Dashboard and Archives back online, but the team is going to continue to monitor. Affected components Subscriber-facing app (Operational) Author-facing app (Operational)
- investigating Apr 01, 2026, 07:12 PM UTC
Status: Investigating We're currently investigating reports that the author-facing Dashboard and Archives are down. Affected components Subscriber-facing app (Full outage) Author-facing app (Full outage)
- monitoring Apr 01, 2026, 07:33 PM UTC
Status: Monitoring We're seeing that the Dashboard and Archives are back online! We'll continue monitoring and looking for additional error reports. Affected components Subscriber-facing app (Operational) Author-facing app (Operational)
- resolved Apr 02, 2026, 12:00 AM UTC
Status: Resolved The fix has been stable, so we're calling this incident resolved. We'll have a recap post available soon. Affected components Subscriber-facing app (Operational) Author-facing app (Operational)