Descript incident

Projects become temporarily unresponsive after making edits

Resolved after 2 hours 38 minutes, affecting Editing, on March 3, 2026.

identified Mar 03, 2026, 10:46 PM UTC

We have identified the underlying issue and are working to restore functionality.

Started
Mar 03, 2026, 10:37 PM UTC
Resolved
Mar 04, 2026, 01:15 AM UTC
Duration
2h 38m
Detected by Pingoru
Mar 03, 2026, 10:37 PM UTC

Affected components

Editing

Update timeline

  1. investigating Mar 03, 2026, 10:37 PM UTC

    Some larger projects are becoming unresponsive for ~20 seconds after making simple edits. Not all projects are affected by this, and the edits are being synced to the cloud successfully. We are currently investigating the underlying issue.

  2. identified Mar 03, 2026, 10:46 PM UTC

    We have identified the underlying issue and are working to restore functionality.

  3. resolved Mar 04, 2026, 01:15 AM UTC

    We've deployed the fix and the issue is now resolved.

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