Ask HN: Is Claude Down for You?

API error 500 :(

Came here to ask the same

Yes, it is down for me too. Germany.

> API Error: 500 {"type":"error","error":{"type":"api_error","message":"Internal server error"},"request_id":"req_xxxxxx"}

Yes, Internal server error as of 5 minutes ago.

Time to figure out how to use Gemini

Honestly, I was hoping to take a nap sometime soon, lmao! As good a time as ever (was working on some claude code scaffolding anyway.)

Yes, same generic 500 that s-macke posted and it's spiking on downdetector.

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

yep, restarting claude fixed it

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yeah

Yes

Same error!

We are so back

Claude Down is the new Github Down.

Here's a manual work around I found that's been working for many users, please refer to this GitHub discussion for more information where I originally posted it - https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/18866#issue... : my message - "I was getting compacting issues like everyone else here. I was able to manually trigger compaction by doing this: on the most previous message that went through and prompted a response from Claude, resend this chat, for me Claude rewrote this message then on the next one (the message that previously had a compacting issue) I typed /compact at the beginning and Claude then compacted the message. Not sure if this was just by chance or if /compact actually did something. Hope this helps someone else"