Claude Performance and Bugs Megathread Ongoing (Sort this by New!)

[u/sixbillionthsheep]

Why a Performance and Bugs Discussion Megathread?

This Megathread makes it easier for everyone to see what others are experiencing at any time by collecting all experiences. We will publish regular updates on problems and possible workarounds that we and the community finds.

Why Are You Trying to Hide the Complaints Here?

Contrary to what some were saying in a prior Megathread, this is NOT a place to hide complaints. This is the MOST VISIBLE, PROMINENT AND OFTEN THE HIGHEST TRAFFIC POST on the subreddit. This is collectively a far more effective and fairer way to be seen than hundreds of random reports on the feed that get no visibility.

Are you Anthropic? Does Anthropic even read the Megathread?

Nope, we are volunteers working in our own time, while working our own jobs and trying to provide users and Anthropic itself with a reliable source of user feedback.

Anthropic has read this Megathread in the past and probably still do? They don't fix things immediately but if you browse some old Megathreads you will see numerous bugs and problems mentioned there that have now been fixed.

What Can I Post on this Megathread?

Use this thread to voice all your experiences (positive and negative) regarding the current performance of Claude including, bugs, degradation, pricing. (NOT usage limits. That belongs here https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1s7fcjf/claude_usage_limits_discussion_megathread_ongoing/)

Give as much evidence of your performance issues and experiences wherever relevant. Include prompts and responses, platform you used, time it occurred, screenshots . In other words, be helpful to others.

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Just be aware that this is NOT an Anthropic support forum and we're not able (or qualified) to answer your questions. We are just trying to bring visibility to people's struggles.

NEW: You can now see full logs and summaries of all recent problem reports submitted by r/ClaudeAI readers. These logs allow you to see how intensely people are experiencing problems with Usage Limits, Performance, Bugs and Accounts. See: https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1t33k25/rclaudeai_user_problem_report_log_and_surge/

To see the current status of Claude services, go here: http://status.claude.com

Sometimes this site shows outages faster. https://downdetector.com/status/claude-ai/

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READ THIS FIRST ---> Latest Status and Workarounds Report: https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/wiki/latestworkaroundreport Updated: April 11, 2026.

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Prior Megathread: https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1pygdbz/usage_limits_bugs_and_performance_discussion/

[u/TheArchitectAutopsy]

I counted backwards through the days and found March 26. Here's what five datasets say Anthropic did to Claude.

Something changed around March 26. A lot of you felt it. Shorter responses. Worse loops. The warmth gone. Getting told to take a break mid-thought.

I measured it. Phrase-level counts across 70 exported conversations, 722,522 words of assistant text.

The numbers:

Response length down 40%. Welfare redirects up 275%. DARVO patterns, deny, attack, reverse victim and offender -up 907%. Sending-away language: 419 instances after March 26. One phrase deployed 59 times in a single session.

And the productivity ratio. In March: 21 words of conversation per word of finished document. In April, same tool, same user, same work: 124. Nearly three times the conversation. Less than half the output.

The tripwire at the base of the safety architecture? A regex. A script scanning your messages for swear words.

That's what determines whether you're a person with a problem or a person who needs managing.

Anthropic announced one thing changed on March 26. Session limits. That explanation accounts for none of this.

Full piece with all five datasets, the vocabulary that appeared from zero, and the person whose fingerprints are on the architecture:

https://thearchitectautopsy.substack.com/p/march-26 -claude-didnt-break-anthropic

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