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It's usually down about at least once a day for me anyway. Previously it used to be down during beginning and end of US work times. Now that they've geographically spread out their servers, it's down at random times instead.

TBH I'm not so irritated by this. It keeps me grounded, and saves me from being unconsciously outsourcing all the hard work of thought process to AI.

15 hours agoby sometimes_all

I didn't even know they had a status page. Claude (with pro subscription) is often so unreliable with regards to connectivity and performance that I'm looking for something more predictable.

It randomly fails halfway through a response, sometimes very slow to start, hangs for long periods during a response, and so on.

The Claude chat interface can also slow down with long sessions. I sometimes use Claude code which is better, but I'm not a huge fan of terminal interfaces. I'm aware of third party frontends, but I believe those require api access which I don't like for personal use.

14 hours agoby CapsAdmin

Pro tip: if you pay for Claude, also subscribe to status updates here: https://status.claude.com . you may want to add a rule to filter these to a tag or folder as they can be quite spammy, but it has helped me lots. It tells you which specific models are down and what platforms are down, such as claude web, app, API, etc.

6 hours agoby bachittle

This makes me wonder: what do developers, who completely rely on LLMs to write their code, do when the service is down?

I realize this is already a problem for other jobs, which require working with SAAS, but it seems odd to me that now some developers will fall into this "helpless" category as well.

15 hours agoby fainpul

OAuth handshake still gives internal server errors when you try to /login from Claude Code

13 hours agoby belevme

Still seeing issues on the OAuth flow despite a "a fix [having] been implemented". Looks like whatever happened probably trashed the session database since it's forcing Claude Code to re-auth.

13 hours agoby AgentK20

Login on claude.ai seems to be back online, but login through Claude Code via OAuth is still down for me. So I'm twiddling my thumbs.

13 hours agoby jimkleiber

TBH I'm not so irritated by this. It keeps me grounded, and saves me from being unconsciously outsourcing all the hard work of thought process to AI.

14 hours agoby sometimes_all

My auth token expired and when I type /login in Claude Code it leads me to a webpage showing:

OAuth Request Failed Internal server error

15 hours agoby belevme

Its now phrased with "Major Outage".

> Elevated errors on claude.ai

> Identified - The issue has been identified and a fix is being implemented. Oct 31, 2025 - 10:18 UTC

> Investigating - We are currently investigating this issue. Oct 31, 2025 - 09:25 UTC

15 hours agoby jakub_jo

cant even log into console

https://console.anthropic.com/api/auth/send_magic_link 500 (Internal Server Error)

15 hours agoby delaminator

I wonder if it's coincidence: today Anthropic mailed out all previous customers of Claude offering a free monthly of 5x Claude Code if they sign up again.

Plenty on Reddit saying they did. And I did.

Could the outage be a the result of an "unexpected" surge in account activations / use?

Not much of a "welcome back" ;-)

11 hours agoby steveharman

Has anyone else pretty much stopped using AI at this point? The only thing I use it for to help generate README's or Javadocs, and then heavily edit them. I had it in my workflow and it burned me so many times I just went back to google and stackoverflow.

14 hours agoby jryan49

Claude will return soon Claude is currently experiencing a temporary service disruption. We’re working on it, please check back soon.

https://status.claude.com/

15 hours agoby tooa

All the major providers seem to have blips on latency and other issues at least once a day, which would be a “service degradation” by the standards of normal apps.

13 hours agoby cmiles8

5 hours in and I'm pretty disappointed in Anthropic's response to this. Looking at their status page you'd think everything was OK, the downtime was only 37 minutes, a fix is in place and they're "monitoring" - that's total BS. I can't even log in. I can forgive downtime, we've all been there, but I really don't like when companies try to smooth it over with little self-serving minimizations of the disruption.. while it's still in progress!

I use Claude Code for programming work, but I choose OpenAI anywhere customer-facing and this cute little outage is making me feel better about that with every passing minute. NOT cool.

11 hours agoby sho

Same here. Just seeing "Rate exceeded." when trying to access https://claude.ai/new.

16 hours agoby fred_

Was wondering why we haven't had any fires today - it's nice having some calm on a Friday. Could we make this a weekly thing?

14 hours agoby miningape

I must be lucky. Status page says Elevated Error Rates for the model as well, but I'm chugging along. Praise be the West Coast shard :)

15 hours agoby arjie

  curl -fsSL https://ollama.com/install.sh | sh
  ollama run smollm2:135m-instruct-q2_K --verbose

14 hours agoby trvz

Guys, coding without AI is still a thing.

15 hours agoby doppp

Grok seems to have much better uptime, I have Pro sub on both Claude and Grok so just switch between them.

14 hours agoby roman_soldier

Credit for owning downtime, but guys, if people are going to rely on you, you have to figure out solid ops.

15 hours agoby CuriouslyC

Same here. About 2 hours ago it started throwing errors about tool names, now completely down.

16 hours agoby sho

Identified - The issue has been identified and a fix is being implemented. Oct 31, 2025 - 09:30 UTC

Update - We are continuing to investigate this issue. Oct 31, 2025 - 09:25 UTC

Investigating - We are currently investigating this issue. Oct 31, 2025 - 09:17 UTC

15 hours agoby tooa

I wonder if there will be any compensation for customers in this situation, such as providing an extra day ^^. I doubt that Claude, who is a stickler for weekly limits, will be a stickler for rewards.

15 hours agoby claudemd

Claude.ai’s rate is exceeded, whatever that may be.

15 hours agoby Aeolun

* Sublimating...

15 hours agoby erikbye

Claude AI is down, keeps logging me out.

15 hours agoby kirpalx

I wondered why my junior dev was quite.

15 hours agoby obayesshelton

Maybe it will stay down forever because they can't use claude to fix the issue.

15 hours agoby askl

Still got issues with the reauth, i’ll try glm for now

12 hours agoby remnv

back to their 2 9's of reliability

13 hours agoby htrp

It's a reminder to never rely on something as flaky as AI for your important things.

15 hours agoby roschdal

back to the prehistoric age of coding

14 hours agoby hiflex_

Time to review the slop

15 hours agoby seafisher

Is this news? Claude API is frequently down at frequent times of the day although it got better recently (coincided with them heavily restricting usage).

15 hours agoby csomar

yes it is still down

15 hours agoby tooa

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45769901

15 hours agoby latch

Can anyone cheer up Claude? Please, we're all depending on you! /s

14 hours agoby moffkalast

Is your brain still up? I don't get this voluntary reliance on so-called AI.

13 hours agoby Gnarl

Oh no. How will all the kids write code today?

13 hours agoby gafferongames

I think claude need to give reward us 10 hours limit

15 hours agoby sirizvi2700

Grok seems to have much better uptime, I have Pro sub on both Claude and Grok so just switch between them.

14 hours agoby roman_soldier

Dear terminal based programmers, who switched to Grok Console [0] from Claude Code [1] and why should I, too?

[0] https://console.grok.com/

[1] https://www.claude.com/product/claude-code

14 hours agoby inanothertime

If LLM use were as valuable as the adherents claim it is, this news would be on par with AWS US East 1 being down.

LLMs neither have the mechanical reliability we expect from computers (does it the same way every time) nor the flexible reliability we expect from biological intelligences (solves or works around the unexpected sub-problems as they arise).

12 hours agoby dsr_