Who knew that the vast majority of internet services depending upon one thing en masse was a bad idea.
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Yeah, it's terrible. I'm so glad that Nadeko uses a self-hosted anti-bot solution.
It's terrible that app.element.io and mini.p2pool.observer are broken because of Cloudflare, when they're associated with self-hosted independent open source software.
Lol .world is down.
That's incredible
Second mass outage in less than a month. 
Way too much of the internet depends on Cloudflare, companies should really diversify the bot protection game.
I feel like programmers have just gotten bad. Everything works worse than it used to even with better hardware.
This might be controversial, but personally I blame capitalism.
There’s no business reason to improve X. It runs on the customer’s device so we don’t really stand to benefit from making it more efficient.
Etc.
Shareholders-first thinking is an absolute cancer in our economy.
https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-rot-economy/
we need to seize the means of production under a market economy. seriously!
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I got shitlisted by cloudflare because I had a browser tab misbehaving that was infinitely reloading twitter once for god knows how long before I realized it.
I was blocked from like 99% of the internet for like 2 weeks. I couldn't order food, I couldn't visit any goddamn website pretty much, anything that required "human verification" blocked me instantly. it was a fucking nightmare.
and there is NO ONE you can reach out to either. they simply do not offer any path to speak to someone or submit a ticket or anything. you're just insta-banned from the internet.
You already can pick a competitor.
cloudflare offers more things for free than anyone else can because they're feds lol
Matthew: Back in 2003, Lee Holloway and I started Project Honey Pot as an open-source project to track online fraud and abuse. The Project allowed anyone with a website to install a piece of code and track hackers and spammers.
We ran it as a hobby and didn't think much about it until, in 2008, the Department of Homeland Security called and said, "Do you have any idea how valuable the data you have is?" That started us thinking about how we could effectively deploy the data from Project Honey Pot, as well as other sources, in order to protect websites online. That turned into the initial impetus for CloudFlare.
Sorry, I should have given them a heads up before launching my new site with thousands of 
today
Critical support to Cloudflare for stopping me from doomscrolling o7
twitter is down so the world is perfect for now
honestly idk what to expect from muskrat but i'm shocked he relies on cloudflare
honestly idk what to expect from muskrat but i’m shocked he relies on cloudflare
cloudflare is way bigger than twitter itself
Cloudflare is ginormous, and when it works they provide some of the best stuff at really competitive prices.
Keeping me from looking at slop posts cause the instance linked too are behind cloudflare lol
I love the decentralized internet! So resilient!
more like clownflare
fedcobin and mr are both behind cloudflare, while counterpunch isn't, really makes you think.
Haha internet users. My books dont need cloudflare
Cloudflare currently operating like an infantry squad engaging in bounding overwatch.
bounding overwatch
i will add this to the list of wikipedia pages i read while i poo at work today thank you
So much stuff is down. Basically all of the piracy streaming sites use Cloudflare and as a result are completely broken. The Cloudflare dashboards and API's are broken, so I can't access or do anything with my domains on Cloudflare, or with the Cloudflare workers or Storage.
Very thankful that many of the most important things use their own anti-bot systems, instead of depending on Cloudflare. Invidious and Google stuff works just fine, a lot of the privacy-focused open-source software still works. So glad for the people that don't like Cloudflare for worry of exactly this kind of thing happening.
Anna's Archive just recently moved from Cloudflare to something else, good choice on their part.
Lol fuck the internet
Wait a minute WAIT WAIT AAA-
i almost paid for a game because i couldn't get on 1337x 😔
Stay strong sister.
Can you find it on knabben or another torrent search engine?
1337x came back right before i was really thinking of buying it lol
I kinda want to pay for EU5 but fuck i don't have 85 dollars right now for their stupid dlc pass shit but the piracy site i use doesn't have v1.05
but the piracy site i use doesn't have v1.05
Good. That patch completely broke a bunch of shit. There is now a 1.0.6 hotfix which addressed some of these issues
Yeah but it added tin RGOs to mesoamerica and I'm really sick of trying to fine tune my stone extraction and stone tool economy as Cocom
They made a lot of good changes but broke trade in the process. Wait for 1.0.6 to come out on torrents
I knew something was up. This just stopped me from playing Niota, a game installed on MY COMPUTER, because I was using the itch launcher.
This is probably another case of code being written by AI. We thought AI would ruin the internet by filling it with slop. Instead it's killing itself with shitty code deployments like a toddler left unattended with the bottles under the sink.
Another thing that should be nationalised, in this case by an international governing body though.
cloudfare is down
AO3 is down
World of Warcraft somehow still going while League of Legends goes down is amusing to me.
it's currently a yo-yo, website back up, and then down
According to status, the issue has been identified and a fix is coming
nevermind it was about warp access
It took quite a while to get to that point, like more than an hour and a half from the start of the issues
warp is a piece of shit in a league of its own
Huh i guess that's why sponsorblock isn't working.
fucking good.. maybe this will wake some people up to realize this isn't how the internet is supposed to work. everyone being behind 1 host is just stupid