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Claude Seems Down

#1

Post by zhan_eg » Sun, Aug 16, 2026, 9:52 PM UTC

Throwing "Authentication service was unavailable.", no updates on their status page, but there are on downdetector

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#2

Post by ericmay » Sun, Aug 16, 2026, 9:58 PM UTC

Seeing the same. Logging out of the desktop app and attempting to log back in just results in a reset of the authentication flow.

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#3

Post by walrus01 » Sun, Aug 16, 2026, 10:00 PM UTC

Large volume of user generated reports

https://downdetector.com/status/claude-ai/

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#4

Post by [deleted] » Sun, Aug 16, 2026, 10:01 PM UTC

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Post by [deleted] » Sun, Aug 16, 2026, 10:02 PM UTC

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#6

Post by selbyk » Sun, Aug 16, 2026, 10:03 PM UTC

I'm sorry, but why is this on the front page with 2 up votes? Do we really need to be alerted every time the Claude API responds with an error?

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#7

Post by curious_cat_163 » Sun, Aug 16, 2026, 10:03 PM UTC

Looks like their auth is broken. Do they ever publish postmortems?

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#8

Post by nabeards » Sun, Aug 16, 2026, 10:04 PM UTC

Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49324068

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#9

Post by bossyTeacher » Sun, Aug 16, 2026, 10:06 PM UTC

selbyk wrote: post #6

I'm sorry, but why is this on the front page with 2 up votes? Do we really need to be alerted every time the Claude API responds with an error?

It's not just Claude API. See: "We are investigating reports of degraded performance affecting claude.ai, platform.claude.com, the Claude API, Claude Code, and Claude Cowork.". Seems pretty big to me.

It's software used by many here so of course you will hear about Claude downtime here.

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#10

Post by 2001zhaozhao » Sun, Aug 16, 2026, 10:06 PM UTC

bruh

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