Notification Issue Across Platform

Incident Report for Wattpad

Resolved

We’re happy to share that the notification backlog has now been fully cleared, and notifications are back to normal.

Thank you so much for your patience and understanding while our team worked to resolve this issue. We truly appreciate it.
Posted May 26, 2026 - 08:11 EDT

Monitoring

We’re seeing signs that the Notifications issue is now improving and the system is gradually returning to normal. Users should begin receiving story update notifications and alerts for newly published stories again.

However, there may still be some delays while the backlog from the past few days continues to clear. Our team will keep monitoring the situation closely and we’ll continue to share updates as progress is made.
Posted May 26, 2026 - 04:05 EDT

Update

We are continuing to investigate this issue with the Notifications feature, which may cause delays in notifications, including story update notifications and alerts for newly published stories.

As soon as we have any updates, we’ll let you know as quickly as possible.
Posted May 24, 2026 - 08:32 EDT

Identified

We are currently investigating an issue that may impact the notification feature across platforms - hang tight, we're working on resolving this as soon as possible. All updates will be posted here as soon as we have them!
Posted May 23, 2026 - 11:17 EDT
This incident affected: Notifications.