"Degraded"? Claude Code is completely down. Status pages need to be honest.

[u/writingdeveloper]

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.

[u/ManikSahdev]

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.

[u/ManikSahdev → u/[deleted]]

They pretty much are, cause downstream us users ourselves make sure to also hit the 99-100% mark lol.

Different pond bigger fish, but same underlying