Claude Seems Down

zhan_eg 49 points 48 comments August 16, 2026
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Throwing "Authentication service was unavailable.", no updates on their status page, but there are on downdetector

Discussion Highlights (19 comments)

ericmay

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

walrus01

Large volume of user generated reports https://downdetector.com/status/claude-ai/

selbyk

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?

curious_cat_163

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

nabeards

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

rvz

Claude is taking the rest of the day off, without alerting everyone. So it seems.

Boss0565

still using anthropic in the big august 2026?

BoneHeadCIO

My bad, I asked it to do something for me that really must have blown its mind

maxall4

Status page reports as down: https://status.claude.com/

petcat

Use Claude through AWS Bedrock. Never been down for me.

GangstaAgents

Time to write code by myself today)

g42gregory

They are busy implementing text watermarks.

tito

I found out about this from my Claude Status menu bar I built last time it went down! It's invisible most of the time, unless the status goes down then a yellow or red marker appears. Improvements welcome: https://github.com/titojankowski/claude-status

soundworlds

Yeap, all Oauth sessions got kicked and can't get back in. Welp, switching to Deepseek V4 Flash 0731 via OpenRouter. Stoked that AI is in a place we have legitimate options available!

amelius

I asked my OpenClaw agent to build me a Dyson sphere.

mr_bob_sacamano

oh no, now we have to activate our brains without generate tons of CO2! Ahhhhh...It's really unfair!

cryo32

Commence dribbling into the keyboard!

gentooflux

Maybe get him something nice to cheer him up

fennecbutt

To party? Awesome.

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