Is Wattpad Down?

No — Wattpad is up

Wattpad's status page: Operational · no open incidents
FlareWarden checks: Website reachable · 8 of 8 regions · 637 ms

Right now

The verdict is the worse of these two. How we decide

Wattpad's status page

status.wattpad.com · read 3 minutes ago · checked every 3 minutes

Operational

Wattpad's components, as its status page reports them
Component	Status
General Wattpad Usability	Operational
Email Message Delivery	Operational
Notifications	Operational
My Works / Create Page	Operational
Story Statistics	Operational
Story Rankings	Operational
Wattpad Originals / Wallet (Coins)	Operational
Comments	Operational
Search	Operational
Premium / Premium+ Subscription	Operational

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FlareWarden checks

wattpad.com from 8 regions · when you open this page (at most every 30 minutes), otherwise every 6 hours

Reachable

Regions up: 8 of 8
Response: 637 ms
Checked: 3 hours ago

By region

Ashburn reachable, 275 ms
Chicago reachable, 276 ms
Johannesburg reachable, 1765 ms
London reachable, 407 ms
Los Angeles reachable, 491 ms
San Jose reachable, 489 ms
Singapore reachable, 914 ms
Tokyo reachable, 479 ms

Timing by region

Connection timing for each region that loaded the page
Region	DNS	TCP	TLS	TTFB
Ashburn	26 ms	18 ms	20 ms	235 ms
Chicago	43 ms	1 ms	4 ms	272 ms
Johannesburg	234 ms	222 ms	224 ms	1208 ms
London	43 ms	14 ms	18 ms	342 ms
Los Angeles	154 ms	2 ms	4 ms	428 ms
San Jose	127 ms	14 ms	35 ms	426 ms
Singapore	245 ms	67 ms	69 ms	753 ms
Tokyo	40 ms	2 ms	4 ms	332 ms

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History

Incidents Wattpad reported

Since Oct 22, 15 days · from status.wattpad.com

Incidents: 0
Major or critical: 0
Median to resolve: —

No incidents reported in this window.

Wattpad website availability

Measured by FlareWarden · wattpad.com

Last 7 days: 100%
Last 30 days: 100%
Last 90 days: 100%
Avg response, 30 days: 550ms

Last 30 days

91-day clean streak

Oct 7 Today

No downtime Partial Downtime Not measurable No data

Measured by FlareWarden's own checks of wattpad.com from multiple regions every 6 hours. Wattpad's status page sets the verdict above when it reports trouble, but never these figures. Percentages count only checks that returned an availability answer — 90 days measured so far. A dash means that window does not yet hold enough measured days to publish a figure.

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 17 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. When you open this page and our last check is more than 30 minutes old, we check again on the spot; those checks update the verdict, never the availability figures.
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. Our checks only change their 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, and the verdict is the worse of what it reports and what our checks see: a major outage of Wattpad itself is Down, trouble with one part of it is Degraded, problems at a few of a provider's many locations change nothing, and a security notice that marks nothing down is shown but changes nothing either. We check the feed every 3 minutes and read it again within minutes of any change to its incidents or components; a reading counts for 45 minutes after the last check that found nothing changed. The availability figures above are our measurement alone.

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