Claude was briefly down, not just stuck

[David74]

Sometimes Claude feeling stuck is not your topic or your prompt, it is the service itself having trouble. This outage report is a reminder to check status before deleting a useful thread in frustration.
Claude AI was down - what we know so far about the outage

https://www.tomsguide.com/ai/live/claude-april-28-2026

[MJF_Fan]

Good point, not every failure is context rot

[ShadowPilot]

I usually check status before changing workflow

[Kev5]

Outages make people overdiagnose their setup

[SharpLantern]

Still worth keeping a handoff summary ready