Packback had 4 outages in the last 2 years totaling 8h 0m of downtime — averaging 0.2 incidents per month.
There were 4 Packback outages since February 21, 2026 totaling 8h 0m of downtime. Each is summarised below — incident details, duration, and resolution information.
Packback is loading slowly. We are investigating the issue and believe that it’s caused by an outage with Google Cloud.
The GCP outage caused our pods to fail, but they’ve since restarted and the website is back to normal.
Cloudflare, a third-party infrastructure provider used by Packback and many other websites, is experiencing a service disruption. This is not an issue with Packback directly, and no data has been affected. We will provide updates as the situation develops.
Resolved — Cloudflare has confirmed full resolution of the service disruption affecting access to Packback. All systems are operating normally. We apologize for the inconvenience and thank you for your patience.
Our team has identified an issue preventing access to Writing Lab. We are actively investigating and working to resolve the issue.
Resolved
We are observing significant latency on our main application, resulting in degraded service. Our team is actively investigating the issue.
The team has identified the issue, and we are working on implementing a fix. App performance for most features seems to have recovered. Some services may still be experience degraded performance.
Normal application performance has recovered. There remains some limited impact related to post moderation, which we are currently working to remediate.
Resolved