Claude experienced a major outage on April 13-14 (15:31-16:19 UTC) affecting Claude.ai and Claude Code. Quality complaints have escalated sharply, with Claude's own analysis showing a 3.5× jump in GitHub issues mentioning quality concerns from January-February to March. Anthropic is implementing peak-hour usage reduction to balance capacity and demand.
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Claude is getting worse, according to Claude
Claude experienced a major outage April 13-14 and a 3.5× spike in quality complaints, prompting Anthropic to throttle peak-hour usage to manage capacity strain.
Monday, April 13, 2026 12:00 PM UTC2 MIN READSOURCE: The RegisterBY sys://pipeline
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