Kickstarter incident

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Kickstarter experienced a major incident on March 5, 2026 affecting Kickstarter.com and Payments and 1 more component, lasting 3h 37m. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.

Started
Mar 05, 2026, 03:48 PM UTC
Resolved
Mar 05, 2026, 07:25 PM UTC
Duration
3h 37m
Detected by Pingoru
Mar 05, 2026, 03:48 PM UTC

Affected components

Kickstarter.comPaymentsMobile

Update timeline

  1. identified Mar 05, 2026, 03:48 PM UTC

    An outage with a downstream vendor is causing disruption to some campaign pages and pledging for these projects. We are monitoring the vendor's incident status.

  2. monitoring Mar 05, 2026, 05:49 PM UTC

    This issue has been resolved, and we're keeping an eye on site performance to make sure everything is working smoothly. Please stay tuned for the all-clear.

  3. resolved Mar 05, 2026, 07:25 PM UTC

    All-clear! We've been monitoring the site and everything looks good. Sorry for any trouble.