FetLife incident

Issue with Inbox and Messages

Major Resolved

FetLife experienced a major incident on May 19, 2026 affecting Website, lasting 4h 54m. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.

Started
May 19, 2026, 10:04 AM UTC
Resolved
May 19, 2026, 02:58 PM UTC
Duration
4h 54m
Detected by Pingoru
May 19, 2026, 10:04 AM UTC

Affected components

Website

Update timeline

  1. investigating May 19, 2026, 10:18 AM UTC

    We are currently investigating this incident.

  2. identified May 19, 2026, 10:29 AM UTC

    We are continuing to work on a fix for this incident. Slowdown when accessing Inbox and Message should be resolved, but search in them is still affected.

  3. monitoring May 19, 2026, 02:44 PM UTC

    We implemented a fix and are currently monitoring the result.

  4. resolved May 19, 2026, 02:58 PM UTC

    This incident has been resolved.