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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.

3 months 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.

3 months agoby CapsAdmin

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.

3 months agoby fainpul

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.

3 months agoby bachittle

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

3 months 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.

3 months agoby AgentK20

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.

3 months agoby sometimes_all

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.

3 months agoby jimkleiber

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

3 months agoby belevme

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/

3 months agoby tooa

cant even log into console

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

3 months agoby delaminator

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

3 months agoby jakub_jo

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" ;-)

3 months agoby steveharman

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

3 months agoby askl

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

3 months agoby tooa

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.

3 months agoby jryan49

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.

3 months agoby claudemd

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

3 months agoby fred_

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.

3 months agoby cmiles8

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 :)

3 months agoby arjie

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?

3 months agoby miningape

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

3 months agoby trvz

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.

3 months agoby sho

Guys, coding without AI is still a thing.

3 months agoby doppp

Claude AI is down, keeps logging me out.

3 months agoby kirpalx

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

3 months agoby CuriouslyC

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

3 months agoby roman_soldier

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

3 months agoby sho

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

3 months agoby roschdal

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

3 months agoby remnv

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

3 months agoby Aeolun

* Sublimating...

3 months agoby erikbye

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).

3 months agoby csomar

I wondered why my junior dev was quite.

3 months agoby obayesshelton

back to their 2 9's of reliability

3 months agoby htrp

back to the prehistoric age of coding

3 months agoby hiflex_

yes it is still down

3 months agoby tooa

Time to review the slop

3 months agoby seafisher

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

3 months agoby latch

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

3 months agoby moffkalast

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

3 months agoby Gnarl

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

3 months agoby gafferongames

I think claude need to give reward us 10 hours limit

3 months agoby sirizvi2700

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

3 months agoby roman_soldier

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).

3 months agoby dsr_

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

3 months agoby inanothertime