Is Wattpad Down?

No — Wattpad is up

Reachable from all 8 checked regions

Average response time: 436ms

Last checked 5 hours ago · checks run every 6 hours

Official status page: https://status.wattpad.com

Wattpad uptime

98.55%

Last 7 days

99.54%

Last 30 days

99.40%

Last 90 days

408ms

Avg response, 30 days

Measured from multiple regions every 6 hours. Percentages count only checks that returned an availability answer — 55 days measured so far. A dash means that window does not yet hold enough measured days to publish a figure.

30-day history

5-day clean streak

Aug 22 Today

No downtime Partial Downtime Not measurable No data

Reachability by region

Each region runs its own request from a different part of the world. A service can be up for one continent and down for another, which is usually the first sign of a routing or CDN problem.

arn

523ms

DNS 163ms TCP 24ms TLS 27ms TTFB 469ms

bom

589ms

DNS 13ms TCP 7ms TLS 9ms TTFB 402ms

cdg

365ms

DNS 46ms TCP 13ms TLS 16ms TTFB 341ms

dfw

361ms

DNS 113ms TCP 1ms TLS 4ms TTFB 269ms

ewr

354ms

DNS 91ms TCP 22ms TLS 20ms TTFB 319ms

fra

572ms

DNS 137ms TCP 1ms TLS 4ms TTFB 481ms

gru

391ms

DNS 123ms TCP 2ms TLS 3ms TTFB 389ms

iad

335ms

DNS 75ms TCP 18ms TLS 21ms TTFB 296ms

What Wattpad does

Wattpad is a community where writers publish serialised fiction chapter by chapter and readers follow, comment and vote. Writers build an audience around a posting schedule, so an outage during a scheduled chapter release costs both the reading session and the engagement that a release day is meant to generate.

What an outage looks like

The library and story pages fail to load, or load without chapter content. Drafts in My Works will not save, and a chapter written in the editor can be lost on refresh. Comments fail to post and vote counts stall. Story statistics and rankings stop updating, so a release looks like it reached nobody even when it did.

What to do about it

Check status.wattpad.com, which reports general usability, My Works and the Create page, Comments, Search, Story Statistics, Story Rankings and email delivery as separate components. Draft long chapters outside the editor and paste them in, since a browser session is the only place unsaved work exists. Delay a scheduled release until notifications recover.

Is it down for everyone, or just you?

If this page says Wattpad is up but it is not loading for you, the problem is between you and them. Run a check against any URL from up to 18 cities across three regions to find out where it breaks.

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Wattpad outage FAQ

Will I lose a chapter I was writing when Wattpad goes down?

If the draft had not saved, very likely. The editor holds work in the browser until it reaches Wattpad, and a refresh or a closed tab discards it. Writing longer chapters in a separate document and pasting them in removes this risk entirely, which is worth doing regardless of whether an incident is in progress.

Why have my reads and votes stopped counting?

Story Statistics and Story Rankings are separate components from general usability, so counts can stall while people are reading normally. The reads are usually still happening; the reporting is what has stopped. Numbers typically catch up after recovery, so avoid concluding that a chapter flopped based on figures from an incident window.

Should I still publish a chapter during an outage?

Waiting is usually better. A chapter can publish while notifications and email delivery are degraded, meaning followers never learn it exists and it slides down their feed unread. Since the whole point of a release day is the notification, publishing into a silent window wastes it. Hold until Notifications is healthy.

Is Wattpad down or is my story unpublished?

Stories can be in draft, unpublished or removed for content reasons, each of which produces a specific message rather than a page that fails to load. Check status.wattpad.com first. If the site works and only your story is unreachable, look at its status in My Works before assuming a platform problem.

Do Wattpad Originals and coin purchases work during an outage?

Originals and the coin wallet are listed as their own component, so purchases can fail while free stories read normally. A payment that errored may not have completed, and buying again risks a double charge. Check your coin balance once the status page clears rather than retrying the purchase immediately.

How we measure this

We request Wattpad's public endpoint every 6 hours from Fly.io regions across six continents — the most recent check ran from 8 of them.
A region counts as down only when it gets no usable HTTP response. A 403 or 429 means the origin answered and refused us, which we report as blocked, never as an outage.
A single failing region is treated as probe noise. We only change the verdict when two consecutive cycles agree.
Response times average only the regions that actually served the page, so a timeout never inflates the number.
Where Wattpad publishes an official status feed we read it too. An all-clear from the vendor can soften an unconfirmed degradation; a vendor-declared outage only worsens our verdict when our own checks corroborate it.

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