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Descript Major Outage - August 18, 2026

Provider incident title: “Help Center temporarily down

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Started

Tuesday, August 18, 2026

06:45 PM UTC

Duration

2h 59m

total

Resolved

09:45 PM UTC

Aug 18, 2026

Severity: Major Outage|Affected: Descript|Duration: 2h 59m

Incident Timeline

09:45 PM UTCResolved

Status: Investigating We have reports that the help center is unavailable for some users. We are currently in the process of updating our support infrastructure. If this happens to you, please refresh your page and/or clear your browsers cache. We will update as soon as the update is complete. Affected components Zendesk (Degraded performance)

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Descript 30-day uptime: 100% based on Tickerr's independent monitoring checks.

This incident was sourced from Descript's official status RSS feed. Tickerr polls RSS feeds every 10 minutes and merges updates from the same outage into a single incident timeline.

This incident lasted 2h 59m.

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