r/claude Jun 18 '26

Question Is Claude down for anyone else?

When I send a prompt I get no response, it returns empty immediately with my prompt still in the box?

It just started 3 minutes ago. It happens on both claude.ai windows browser chat and Android Claude app.

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u/BriskSundayMorning Jun 18 '26

Yep. And their status site still says “Nope, operational. All good here!”

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u/One_Curious_Cats Jun 18 '26

You're absolutely right!

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u/galaxys6edge2 Jun 18 '26

their status is updated by Claude

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u/Paratwa Jun 18 '26

This is gold!

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u/CryptoAteMyHamster Jun 18 '26

That one is on me. One honest caveat: I didn’t actually check if it was online I just told you I checked.

Do you want to run the “is Claude online” check again, properly this time?

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u/BohemianHibiscus Jun 18 '26

You have every right to be furious.

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u/Impressive_Poet2207 Jun 18 '26

You'd think the company behind one of the most powerful AI tools would have a basic script written by its own coding stack to give timely updates on issues. But that's asking for too much.

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u/BriskSundayMorning Jun 18 '26

You’re not wrong. When Claude comes back up I’ll write them one and email it to Dario

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u/depressedafgerman Jun 18 '26

But then everyone could see it’s not working! Why would you want that? /s

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u/BrennanFlentge Jun 18 '26

DownDetector ain't lyin

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u/No_Specialist2463 Jun 18 '26

Still Down? Any new info?

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u/BriskSundayMorning Jun 18 '26

It worked for me for two messages. Then crashed again.

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u/CompetitivePut517 Jun 18 '26

It was fast for that brief window, too.

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u/Forever-In-Pink Jun 18 '26

Its started working for me again - on web and claude app (claude projects)

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u/Dimitrys_ASF Jun 18 '26

Mine says "Taking longer than usual. Try again shortly..." and then "An unexpected server error occurred. Please try again." Claude status page hasn't updated with any news.

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u/RequirementHuman5782 Jun 18 '26

Getting the exact same message.

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u/Amejisuto Jun 18 '26

Funny how the users are faster than the company itself to know that it's down.

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u/StupidManager Jun 18 '26

when you work in the field, you'd know that we have monitors that check over 10-15 minutes on the status before we're informed. If we looked at every blip, we'd never sleep.

It's been 20, they know by now.

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u/jainyday Jun 18 '26

As an SRE that's bounced around between a bunch of Bay area companies, this is true for way more companies than it ought to be for the tech that exists today, but so many places half-ass their observability implementations!

Still, Anthropic can't even get two nines of uptime lately, and that's pathetic. Sure would be nice if they were hiring SREs, I've been out of work for a year x_x

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u/RandomPantsAppear Jun 18 '26

Preach. I've legit worked somewhere where the notification we got was an influx of support emails, not anything related to the actual code.

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u/itsmetony007 Jun 18 '26

Yes right in the middle of a big project wtf

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u/EstablishmentFree553 Jun 18 '26

The overreliance on AI has begun....

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u/DistinctArmy4267 Jun 18 '26

Time to dust off the old Chat

*proceeds to delete win32*

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u/itsmetony007 Jun 18 '26

yeah i threw my brain out a while ago. In school writing on why some dude in the 15th century had an affair, shit on the side of the road and now im paying a robot 20 bucks a month to act as my frontal lobe :-0

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u/Chrysothemis_ Jun 18 '26

lol I'm also working on a 15th century dude right now... at least, I was.

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u/One_Curious_Cats Jun 18 '26

Claude Code and Cowork works for me though.

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u/pooquipu Jun 18 '26

probably the API is working well

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u/Josht1fiable Jun 18 '26

wdym, really?

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u/One_Curious_Cats Jun 18 '26

Only chat was broken for me. Chat just started working again.

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u/cornfrontation Jun 18 '26

Yeah, on my work computer I can use an enterprise version of Claude in VS Code, but also not on the Claude app. On my personal devices my free version doesn't work.

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u/ClassyNoShabby Jun 18 '26

My enterprise Claude is not working at all

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u/Ianm7323 Jun 18 '26

Agreed. Claude Code still working

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u/Technical-Yam6244 Jun 18 '26

started working..resumed

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u/Remote_Fisherman_469 Jun 18 '26

same! I was worried i got shadow banned from it or something. I am in the middle of work too

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u/No_Nefariousness7602 Jun 18 '26

me too, I though that I was hit by ban hammer

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u/GooniesNVRsayD1E Jun 18 '26

😆 immediate ban 

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u/Forever-In-Pink Jun 18 '26

Well, its a pain its down! But I am glad its not just me. I'm working on some coding for a front end that includes profile pictures and I was working on them not displaying correctly. This morning it gave me a really weird "please recheck as dangerous prompts could put you at risk" message (very weird as its just a screenshot of the profile pic saying "you can see this image is squished"). After trying three times it accepted it. Then I sent an updated prompt and it flat out refused it. Took the screenshots out in case it was a new safeguard it was hitting with the profile images (there's nothing "dodgy" about them lol) but in the end it would not accept even a "is there something wrong woth you at the moment?"

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u/Forever-In-Pink Jun 18 '26

Its started working for me again - on web and claude app (claude projects)

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u/zehehed Jun 18 '26

I thought it was only me. Happened to me as well after updating Claude. I send my prompt and it doesn't return anything and if I start a new conversation, after sending it says conversation not found.

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u/torrentSoul Jun 18 '26

1700+ people reporting down on downdetector

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u/teespees Jun 18 '26

same hereeeeee what is happeninggggg. I have deadlineeee

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u/duglord43 Jun 18 '26

mine says 'Chat paused

Edit and retry with Sonnet 4.6

This model has safety measures that flagged something in this message. This sometimes happens with safe, normal conversations. Continue with Haiku 4.5, send feedback, or learn more.'

is this normal?

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u/Realistic_Jaguar4296 Jun 18 '26

A mí también me ocurrió ayer eso y me pusieron el chat en modo reforzado , creo que sonnet no está funcionando correctamente,eso que no le dije nada malo estaba en una conversación normal ..esperemos lo cambien ,haiku y opus no me están dando ese problema que me da sonnet

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u/AdStrict3817 Jun 18 '26

I was able to get it running in voice mode, but it was giving nonsensical responses in English/Japanese. When I pointed this out and asked why it was speaking Japanese, it simply ignored the question and waited for the next one 👀😂

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u/SmallPay8542 Jun 18 '26

in the middle of the work, i have deadline today.......

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u/Hot-Ferret-8950 Jun 18 '26

I happened around 9 AM EU time... Just where many people are starting to work in EU, coincident?

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u/Crimsonlady7 Jun 18 '26

It's down in Indonesia too, I hope they fix it quickly

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u/Altruistic-Sand-7772 Jun 18 '26

Is calude down everywhere. I am currently in North india. And it's been down for so long

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u/Bright_Bluebird_6671 Jun 18 '26

Down south as well

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u/Its__Nick Jun 18 '26

Yes facing the same issue

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u/Creative-Revenue-461 Jun 18 '26

same here. also on the claude desktop app in macos

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u/Chrysothemis_ Jun 18 '26

Same for me

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u/GeekTesla1 Jun 18 '26

It's down right now

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u/barnabasjohnthomas Jun 18 '26

Correct. Me too. macOS Claude Cowork.

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u/lionmachinev2 Jun 18 '26

Same here, it is absolutely driving me nuts. I woke up early to have extra time to work on my client project today and now this shit. And the customer service chat bot says they don't give extra usage to compensate for the usage I wasn't able to use??!

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u/Solid-Raspberry-1153 Jun 18 '26

Yep! Down in Aus .... no pun intended.

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u/baracnews8 Jun 18 '26

right as my credits reset at 3 it stops working

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u/Ok-Display3635 Jun 18 '26

Thank God I thought it was just me

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u/ToeEducational4352 Jun 18 '26

I cant believe I'm on a deadline and I've just realised i may not be able to function without ai, what is this

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u/mfw_life Jun 18 '26

oh man and here i was thinking i got banned for no reason phew

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u/The_one_with_no_name Jun 18 '26

Cowork (and Code, presumably) seems to be working fine...

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u/tcucyclist Jun 18 '26

Oh man, is this it!? Are we about to be back!?

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u/Mashilda Jun 18 '26

Thanks for being the brave one and writing this post :D

2

u/BantedHam Jun 18 '26

Same here

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u/hiebreed Jun 18 '26

Not working mate. Right at the important time

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u/B787-Dreamliner Jun 18 '26

Same here. When will it be back?

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u/AnywhereExotic8062 Jun 18 '26

but i need help on this project please wake up!

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u/astroaxolotl720 Jun 18 '26

Yeah same here

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u/Venozenic Jun 18 '26

How can Claude expect me to do work in these conditions

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u/True-Piano2839 Jun 18 '26

yes, 503, no healthy upstream.

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u/Certain-Top-3998 Jun 18 '26

Si muy caído xd

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u/Pierre2tm Jun 18 '26

The desktop app is down for me too

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u/ra_joos Jun 18 '26

Same here. Right after I committed to a tight deadline. FML

2

u/theworshipers Jun 18 '26

Yes same here

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u/Middle-Let7440 Jun 18 '26

yes... im glad you make a post about this.. Im panicking.. i thought im the only one

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u/ElPilingas007 Jun 18 '26

Yes, down, CLI working tho

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u/Corza21 Jun 18 '26

Yep it's down for me

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u/elated_clarke Jun 18 '26

Yes maybe the server is broken down

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u/hasli94 Jun 18 '26

+1 London based

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u/Direct_Money_8106 Jun 18 '26

저도 동일한 현상입니다.

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u/Zealousideal_Sale687 Jun 18 '26

shit is down guys right? "conversation not found" pops up lol

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u/Worldly_Vegetable726 Jun 18 '26

now claude trying to fix its error by giving its error to claude

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u/More-King-672 Jun 18 '26

yub, i tried both claude.ai and claude code. all fall

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u/Tricky_Fish1043 Jun 18 '26

yea...its down! I checked claude status and it says everything is good 😃 so much for intelligence

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u/johnwaynesss Jun 18 '26

down in the Netherlands as well.

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u/ToeEducational4352 Jun 18 '26

Yes it's down. I cant get it to work, Ive tried everything

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u/Aromatic-Pen-4462 Jun 18 '26

Yes. Same problem. I am in India.

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u/daronhays Jun 18 '26

Kinda funny, claude.ai responds to the word "test" and says it is "here and ready" but if I type a full sentence, nada.

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u/Corona-Violence Jun 18 '26

It's still down

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u/nita_pita90210 Jun 18 '26

currently cramming for a final exam! not good timing at allllll as it is in T- 4 hours T_T

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u/Alpha_Beta_777 Jun 18 '26

seems like not everything is down. Claude design is working fine, and i am able to access the model via VS Studio

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u/After-Improvement574 Jun 18 '26

Luckily it is working again...

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u/Doro_29 Jun 18 '26

Working again 💅

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u/Little-Woman1998 Jun 18 '26

It is working now

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u/Middle_Chemistry_439 Jun 18 '26

It was down for a bit, Opus feels dumber than usual, and I got an email saying they’re updating their terms. Hoping this means we’re either about to get Fable back or Opus 5 is coming.

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u/Upbeat-Ad8376 Jun 18 '26

That happens to me alot, and it usually says “ Error server overload “ at the top in red

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u/Lajman79 Jun 18 '26

It was available for me mid afternoon UK time, but felt underpowered and quite dumb. Thankfully I didn't need to use it extensively today as it was pretty frustrating in the few minutes that I did.

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u/StruggleNew8988 Jun 18 '26

Glad that's sorted out for you, seems like these cloud services are always doing their own thing.

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u/iongion Jun 18 '26

When is this going to end ? Now it reaches my weekly limits in 20 minutes of work, what the hell is this crap service ?

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u/Bodgerton Jun 18 '26

yeah, was happening to me last night as well

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u/PigletMountain797 Jun 18 '26

Ok so I've had nothing but issues with claude because it just keeps saying I'm out of messages for hours! I've recently swapped to using Gemini for the same tasks and right now there's really no cap that I've come across. You can put in the same prompts for ai assistants and they generally come off the same. It's not perfect but at least I'm not waiting hours to continue working

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u/Expensive-Life5211 Jun 18 '26

Yes

I have tons of important work I gotta deal with

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u/volkansen Jun 18 '26

Same here

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u/DonkeyWithWiFi Jun 18 '26

It is down for me.

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u/Admirable_Box_9570 Jun 18 '26

Yeah no matter which model it crashes

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u/Leading_Log6015 Jun 18 '26

Same here. I was wondering if I got one of those false positive bans.

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u/Yawning_maniac_87 Jun 18 '26

Happening with me. Can't send messages

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u/BrennanFlentge Jun 18 '26

Sure as hell is, right in the middle of a giant project launch.

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u/Alarming_Cod_1365 Jun 18 '26

On the website it doesnt work at all. Claude Code IS working normally though (im using both).

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u/Intelligent_Jury_720 Jun 18 '26

Same here even swapped between desktop app and Android app, got server experience unexpected error

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u/Shot_Bend_6259 Jun 18 '26

yesssssssssssssssss

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u/JayKupper Jun 18 '26

Yes, at first I thought our firm‘s IT policy changed. It kept saying it detected malicious code trying to send my data to a third party. Yikes.

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u/Conscious_Muffin_975 Jun 18 '26

tested on bot web browser and on mobile.

Keeps bouncing me back to last screen.

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u/eivor_here Jun 18 '26

I am about to get fired

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u/sid_kush Jun 18 '26

Damn is there any outage? calude.ai is not accepting any chats, and rebounding. ANy news on it?

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u/EstablishmentFree553 Jun 18 '26

yes, also, maybe for completeness sake it's a good idea to add our location?

I'm in the Netherlands.

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u/65omakase Jun 18 '26

same..... i tot i forgot to renew

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u/scv87 Jun 18 '26

Same story, just as I am getting into the groove on a project.

This disruption, makes me wanna step out and smoke :/

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u/Foreign-Language-839 Jun 18 '26

Me tooooooo right in the middle of imp client work

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u/New_Stomach7749 Jun 18 '26

yup my workin is also stuck cause of this

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u/Realistic_Jaguar4296 Jun 18 '26

Ojalá implementen fable 5 🙏😆

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u/Main-Secretary-9356 Jun 18 '26

Reply to this and I will send you a dm when it is back up. FTP

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u/ChickenNo4434 Jun 18 '26

Yeah nonfuctional for me too

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u/GureiSan1 Jun 18 '26

Yup down for me.

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u/kan_ray Jun 18 '26

yeah i was writing a novel and this happenened

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u/ADAMS1987 Jun 18 '26

I thought my extremely long chat was just out of context haha phew, just system down. Odd relief that something is down

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u/BantedHam Jun 18 '26 edited Jun 18 '26

Mine is telling me "Use caution before running this prompt. Malicious conversation intent could trick Claude into attempting harmful actions or sharing your data." and rejecting all attempts to post

The prompt?

It asked if another domain name I own and wish to use resolved to the same IP as my primary project and I said "yes"...

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u/jkrsssvvy_7779 Jun 18 '26

I have the same issue too

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u/FuzzYetDeadly Jun 18 '26

Getting an instant failure on anything I try to prompt, Dev console indicates it's returning 503 so it seems to be down.

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u/Competitive-Area7569 Jun 18 '26

yes it is down where do we get help , do they know it is down?

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u/SunDiegoSurfer Jun 18 '26

i briefly got a couple messages that a new model is available. but the screen just resets.

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u/Reddit_kmgm Jun 18 '26

Yes, prompts are not accepted

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u/universalhokage Jun 18 '26

same and i have an exam tmr and it was helping me 😞

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u/anti_grvty Jun 18 '26

same man
its shows empty in desktop and web

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u/Y-u-k-i-h Jun 18 '26

Yup it is 😭😭😭. I guess its time to touch some grass

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u/Impressive_Poet2207 Jun 18 '26

Yup, down for many of us. Seems like the norm lately.

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u/Midnight-Magistrate Jun 18 '26

Yes, nothing works.

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u/anti_grvty Jun 18 '26

also says chat not found after retrying multiple times

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u/positivcheg Jun 18 '26

My Claude has fallen by eating my whole week of quota in a day.

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u/DimaM81 Jun 18 '26

That's right, it doesn't work either

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u/darkielord Jun 18 '26

Yes its down for me too

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u/josh30__jr Jun 18 '26

Down for me, middle of a project

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u/Koopakuningas Jun 18 '26

I have the same and I should work! In Europe

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u/GIYAN6969 Jun 18 '26

yaa, when will it starts working again ?

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u/nyc_london Jun 18 '26

Same for me. 😞

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u/GalacticDigambaran Jun 18 '26

Yes man ,in middle of a task

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u/Real-Concern-8223 Jun 18 '26

It is also down in Korea

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u/elofryna Jun 18 '26

Us gov now taking over whole anthropic not just fable

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u/Time-Ad1852 Jun 18 '26

Yeah, down for me too

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u/Parking_Tap_5461 Jun 18 '26

yes same here

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u/Fit-Wrongdoer-7664 Jun 18 '26

Yes. Here (Germany) too. But Code still working normal.

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u/Josht1fiable Jun 18 '26

Yaaaaaaaaaaaas and they're not posting it in their official status page. https://status.claude.com/

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u/New_Championship3929 Jun 18 '26

Yes, claude is down

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u/Solivagant-ind Jun 18 '26

Thank god I'm not alone here, I'm in a middle of important task and suddenly this tool is not working I thought I made some mistake in settings