Claude Tang Update: Thousands Complain About Outage; How to Fix ‘Server Down’, Claude Chat Issues
Claude, artificial intelligence engine Anthropic selectionThousands of users went offline on Thursday, DownDetector reported. According to a website that tracks network outages, more than 2,000 people have complained of facing problems as of this writing. internet.

According to DownDetector, the chat feature is not working properly. many complain That Claude The server appears to be down.
The cause of the outage is unclear, and Crowder’s status page This issue has not been documented.
Claude Blackout: The response has been overwhelming
Some people complained during the outage in Crowder. Some people flocked to DownDetector’s comments section.
One of them wrote, “I am studying for engineering exam TMR 4th year Mechanical question paper and this helped me.” This shows how many people rely on AI chatbots for help for various purposes. Another commented “Can’t do the Claude thing, I guess I have to go to bed or something.”
Someone else expressed their problem by saying “I don’t understand. I type the prompt and it’s like I hit enter while reloading. Are the rest of you the same?”.
Crowder users all over the world seem to be facing problems, as there are comments coming from Brazil and Russia. “In Russia it’s down 🙁 only works on iPhone, desktop/web version doesn’t work,” one user wrote in the Down detector comments section. On X, complaints poured in as well.
“Many people around the world have been kept in the dark about Claude’s condition. There have been no updates from humans for 30 to 40 minutes,” one wrotetag humans. other explain “I hope Claude can give us all a reset from the week after being up all night again @claudeai @ClaudeDevs. They have been really kind and generous when this has happened in the past.”
Claude down: How to solve chat and server downtime problems
Cloud’s Help Center states that if you are experiencing problems with Cloud Chat, you should check the server status for outage reports. If not, you can try clearing your browser’s cache, disabling the active VPN, or starting a new chat, as long conversations and memory bloat can often cause web applications to crash.
However, in this case, the outage appears to be affecting people worldwide, so a user-side fix is unlikely to work.
If the server appears to be down despite no reported outages, you can try a hard refresh to clear the temporary glitch, open Claude in an incognito window, disable the VPN and try to open Claude, or clear the cache or even log out and try to log into Claude.