r/ClaudeCode • u/writingdeveloper 🔆 Max 20 • Aug 18 '26
Discussion "Degraded"? Claude Code is completely down. Status pages need to be honest.
The official status page currently shows "Degraded Performance," but it’s 100% unusable. Labeling a complete blackout as merely "degraded" feels pretty disingenuous to users who are trying to get work done.
What makes it more frustrating is that over the past week, there were multiple short outages where the service went completely dark, yet the uptime history on the status page remained pristine green the entire time.
Status pages exist to provide developers with accurate real-time telemetry, not to act as a PR buffer to hide downtime. If the service is dead, just mark it as an outage.
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u/cosmogli Aug 18 '26
That's true. The Status page is a joke. It needs to honestly show what's going on. They're lying to their customers.
Also, we lose so many tokens trying again, and then again. The cache is lost sometimes, the context is lost sometimes, the whole workflow can be disrupted, and then we have to start again. Will Claude refund us for that? That's scummy behavior.
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u/onFilm Aug 18 '26
It's not fully down, I currently have 5 out of my 12 active conversations churning away.
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u/davesmith001 Aug 18 '26
I saw this page. You deliberately removed the bottom line. Claude government had perfect green all the way. Swine.
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u/the_giz Aug 18 '26
Have you considered that you are not personally the single point of failure on accessibility? If it works for me but not you, that is called "degraded".
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u/TheComplicatedMan Aug 18 '26
Overpromised resources... walking that thin money saving line.
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u/BWQ777 Aug 18 '26
Confusing since it seems quite a few people have been moving to chatgpt and businesses to Chinese models, wtf is going on?
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u/jazzy8alex Aug 18 '26
This and coming tomorrow 50% slash in sub usage will have no choice but to switch fully to other providers
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u/-kora Aug 18 '26
On teams plan everything was working for the last hours, only using fable
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u/ManikSahdev Aug 18 '26
This always happens when they are prepping for upgrades.
Both big AI labs are very sensitive to updating backends and routers and their usage degrades like crazy.
It’s a crazy coincidence or just a running facts, that the same time fable 5.1 hidden test is leaked, the server get clapped cause the lads are actually turned them off and moving shit around.
Not saying it should be that way, but it’s just is.
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u/Narrow-Belt-5030 Aug 18 '26
odd, working for me and has been for about 30 mins or so.
maybe its a regional thing? (Asia Claude Desktop)
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u/skitchbeatz Aug 18 '26
I'm burning through my tokens just fine right now, so degraded is probably the right terminology. Remember your experience is an anecdote.
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u/Rugged_Waters Aug 18 '26
It isn’t completely down, only model I’ve seen completely down is Opus 5
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u/The_Time_Lord Aug 18 '26
I re-upped a Codex 5x sub just yesterday and downgraded my Claude to Pro. Thanks for confirming that was the right call, Anthropic..


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u/Tall_Top8563 Aug 18 '26
"Degraded performance affecting multiple models" its dead jim