Descript incident

Delays in playback

Major Ongoing View vendor source →

Descript is currently experiencing a major incident affecting Media Playback, which began 26 min ago. The vendor's full update timeline is below.

Started
May 21, 2026, 01:30 PM UTC
Resolved
Ongoing
Duration
● 26m
Detected by Pingoru
May 21, 2026, 01:30 PM UTC

Affected components

Media Playback

Update timeline

  1. investigating May 21, 2026, 12:59 PM UTC

    Status: Investigating We are currently aware of an issue where the play button spins after being clicked, causing delays in the playback of content. The team is currently investigating. Affected components Media Playback (Degraded performance)

  2. investigating May 21, 2026, 01:30 PM UTC

    Status: Investigating We are currently aware of an issue where the play button spins after being clicked, causing delays in the playback of content, with some effects also failing to apply to affected projects. The team is currently investigating. Affected components Media Playback (Degraded performance)