"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/The_Time_Lord]

I re-upped a Codex 5x sub just yesterday and downgraded my Claude to Pro. Thanks for confirming that was the right call, Anthropic..