Ask HN: Claude, OpenAI, Janitor, and Character.AI down in the last 2 hours?

[HaZeust]

Was wondering if anyone noticed a specifically-high outage rate for AI-based services this afternoon and evening.

There was also Meta Services down as well (Instagram [1], WhatsApp [2], Facebook Core [3]). Could be anything external?

1 - https://x.com/instagram 2 - https://downdetector.com/status/whatsapp/ 3 - https://downdetector.com/status/facebook/

[gnabgib]

You've already commented on one of the stories about this, so you know people on HN know. What are you looking for?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42394760

[HaZeust → gnabgib]

Glad you shared that I'm active on a topic I bothered to make a post about - who would have thunk it?

Besides that, wondering what's going on - and found it interesting there was no discussion about multiple major AI-based services having issues?

[winstonp]

OpenAI has been down, but Claude and Meta services are working fine for me

[HaZeust → winstonp]

Used sources for Meta services with past outages today, Claude was based on my personal experience of getting an error about ANY message I sent causing "unexpected capacity issues", as well as an increase in baseline reports on downdetector and "Downforeveryoneorjustme", but doesn't seem to be nearly as big.

[jscottbee → HaZeust]

Claude has been getting "unexpected capacity issues" for a few weeks, but that's not down. I have been using it for the past few hours with no issues.

[jscottbee]

Claude is up.