Claude is running out of resources. Performance drops, shadow limits, and weird promo credits all point to it. My 2¢ after being watching all this drama for the past two months.

what i’m seeing is pretty clear TBH. claude is running out of resources but they don’t wanna admit it. instead they went for shadow limiting. all these dramas started 2 months ago or so

they make it feel like you used your credits normally, then stuff starts failing and support acts like it’s your fault. this started right after that wave of compliments here, which is kinda funny timing.

then they tried the “free promo” move by cutting training resources during holidays. that also failed, since they could only keep the 2x promo alive for like less than a month. after that, it got weird.

they started limiting some accounts while keeping others normal. new accounts mostly untouched. so the community splits into two groups. one side says “service is fine, idk what you’re talking about” and the other side is long‑time users (people who’ve used claude for years) getting hit with random limits and being told they “don’t know how to use claude”. which is bullshit.

every few days another wave of users gets shadow limited. usage drops, errors increase, but credits still drain like normal. then a few days ago, when complaints got loud again, they suddenly roll out another promo and call everything a “bug issue”. those extra “credits” feel like totally fake money they know very well it's just a way to shut mouths, since the actual usage is still capped and those credits can be consumed in day or less.

and the biggest tell is third‑party apps. they clearly started limiting usage there hard (clawcrap bots and similar stuff). that’s not a bug. that’s a resource decision that clearly show the full picture of what happening. So yeah, after all this drama it’s pretty obvious what’s happening. they’re short on resources. instead of being upfront, they’re playing games until either they get more capacity or enough users leave.

and i think they’re fine with some users leaving. and they already decided to chose which one to leave now (🦀Crap Bots💩) i am supporting this honestly, for the users who use 200$ plan on abuse the service for the clawbots, but TBH again they already got the money on their product plan terms. they just can’t provide the service to everyone anymore and instead of admitting they keep making these bad unethical decisions.

idk, just my 2 cents. hope i’m wrong but the pattern is getting hard to ignore.