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Claude Outage Hits During Peak Migration Wave (1,594 upvotes combined)

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Three r/ClaudeAI threads totaling 1,594 upvotes and 916 comments. The timing couldn't be worse — the outage struck at peak momentum as OpenAI users flooded to Claude following the Pentagon controversy. API remained functional; only consumer-facing tools went down. r/ClaudeAI

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