Claude.ai Extended Outage April 13 — Users Report Hours of Downtime

r/ClaudeAI·low signal

Claude.ai went down on April 13 at 15:40 UTC, triggering 156+ upvotes and 77 comments on r/ClaudeAI. The outage follows the paddo.dev-documented pattern of Anthropic service reliability issues throughout April 2026. For builders relying on Claude Code (which routes through Claude.ai infrastructure), this reinforces the case for local model fallbacks and multi-provider routing strategies.