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ninjahawk1today at 2:21 PM2 repliesview on HN

What’s even worse is intentionally degrading performance for sign-in’s. This is still circumstantial but I’ve been looking into that over the past few weeks.

When switching between google accounts on a random app or game, no issue. Quick code, you’re in. When I switch between accounts on Claude on mobile, I have to sign in, enter the code, screen freezes, I sign in again, can’t verify it’s me, I sign again, wait 30 seconds, I’m in.

I have to sign in three separate times when signing into a single google account in Claude. For every single other app it’s very quick.

I have a sneaking suspicion that Anthropic and google are working together to degrade sign-in performance for multi-account users. I can’t fully prove it yet but I plan to be able to in the week or two.


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LPisGoodtoday at 2:32 PM

It is possible that Anthropic (and OpenAI for that matter) actually put out some pretty low quality software.

If you’ve used Claude Code for any length of time you’re familiar with all of the strange rendering bugs, freezes, etc. OpenAI is even worse, their horrific software makes it difficult to _pay_ them, which should be top priority for a company.

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inigyoutoday at 3:54 PM

Why wouldn't they just link your accounts together on the back end? It's more likely to be because Claude is fully vibecoded.