They had a 2x usage cap promotion that was active after 2pm. They weren't saying that you shouldn't use Claude before 2pm.

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fluidcruft 4 hours ago | parent [-]

Is that true? What I saw was an official announcement linked on the claude code subreddit that said that if you claude code within the high-demand times using a subscription account, then you will now burn through your usage faster than previously. They did have a promotion as a carrot but the stick is the stick.

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hgoel 4 hours ago | parent [-]

https://support.claude.com/en/articles/14063676-claude-march...

"Usage remains unchanged" between 8am and 2pm.

I feel the Claude subreddits are mostly full of speculation and dramatics, not much productive discussion, like endless exaggerated complaining about downtime. Pretty much the same as a pretty significant chunk of reddit nowadays.

Edit: the rumor was probably stemming from this https://www.theregister.com/2026/03/26/anthropic_tweaks_usag...

It does look pretty bad, especially not announcing it on a primary channel, but also they claim it's balanced out by efficiency gains and would affect 7% of users overall and 2% of 20x users.

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fluidcruft 4 hours ago | parent [-]

https://www.reddit.com/r/Anthropic/comments/1s4iefu/update_o...

is an official post by Anthropic.

> Your weekly limits remain unchanged. During peak hours (weekdays, 5am–11am PT / 1pm–7pm GMT), you'll move through your 5-hour session limits faster than before. Overall weekly limits stay the same, just how they're distributed across the week is changing.

I'm Eastern time and peak usage works out as 8am-2pm (the bulk of my work day). It's nice that Europe gets to use it in the morning and Pacific gets to use it in the afternoon, but this is completely bullshit and infuriating. I would have no problem if it were 2x outside peak but that's NOT what they're saying.

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hgoel 4 hours ago | parent [-]

Yeah I hadn't been aware of that change previously. I'm also ET, but perhaps I just don't use it enough to hit the limits. They could definitely do to be more transparent, maybe instead of percentages, show a "credit" allocation such that the time-based variation in 5-hour windows is visible.

	▲	fluidcruft 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I am also not a heavy user, it's just so frustrating because nothing is ever defined. Something is always under one promotion or another. Abd the vagueness about weekly limits remain unchanged is they refuse to clarify whether that means tokens or number of 5hr blocks per week (that now get used faster during peak).