Did you have any problems with Cloudflare today?

[Xawyx-2]

I did, a few times.

[_Maya_]

I did have an issue with it yesterday. I went to take a quick sweep of recent questions and opinions before I left my apartment for work and got an error message from Cloudflare. Having to be at the courthouse I just closed the browser and left for the day. When I checked around lunchtime and then again when I got home the site was working. While I wish I could have checked during the day since all I did was sit in the courtroom drawing stupid shapes in my notebook... mobile phones were not permitted. If they were allowed I would have probably been praying for that problem to be fixed. I was so bored. I did read the online news late afternoon and saw an article about this problem. Apparently it effected close to 20% of internet traffic when it went down. That was including popular sites like 'X' (twitter).

[Xawyx-2]

Exactly - X (Twitter) stopped working too.
Well, at least they managed to fix the problem.

[_Maya_]

I had no other issues than this site. Then again I spent little time online yesterday until after work.

[Xawyx-2]

Me too, I don't use facebook, twitter or instagram any more.

[_Maya_]

Not sure if those were effected too or not. I still do have a facebook and instagram account but rarely use them... much like this site.

[_Maya_]

Thank you for most helpful opinion.

[Xawyx-2]

You're welcome

[Nikki1989]

Only the irritating “prove you are human” bollocks.

Funny how they flood this site with AI bots, but us long-term users have to prove we are humans.

[Xawyx-2]

Indeed, that's one of the most irritating things in here.

[OneViewpoint]

Cloudflare went through what may be a DOS attack yesterday. "Intense unusual activity" is all they've said so far. They are focused on getting back up and running before they turn their attention to the unusual activity. It took down a lot of their clients.

[OneViewpoint]

And yup, I ran into it.

[Xawyx-2]

I see, well, cyber-security should work on that, to detect who did the DOS intrusion.

[OneViewpoint]

@xawyx-2,

Turns out it wasn't an external DOS attack. Cloudflare attacked themselves. A software update included a bug in their BOT mitigation routines. The data it generated grew out of control and ate up resources to the point that it was crashing the servers. That was the source of the "unusual activity". The fix was simple, replace the new program with the old version.

[Xawyx-2]

I see, well, at least they managed to solve the problem.

[OneViewpoint]

Oh and they whipped the entire BOT Mitigation software development team to death with an ethernet cable. An example had to be made.

[DryGermanGuy]

Yes, a lot. You could follow everything on their official status site:
https://www.cloudflarestatus.com/

[Xawyx-2]

Thanks for the link.

[Aubrey97]

Yep, I had a few sites that were down this morning

[Xawyx-2]

Same here.

[Iron_Man]

Yes, I did. It took me an hour to get something going to get on the site here. It was very difficult and they wanted me to pay 20 bucks the website cloudfare but of course I didn’t

[Iron_Man]

I’ve been here for over 14 years. That was the first time that’s happened that I got that.

[Xawyx-2]

Smart thinking.

[Iron_Man]

But I had to give out my password for my email account. I hope that wasn’t a problem.

[Physics-Man]

Yes, I had trouble accessing this website. I also noticed that X/Twitter wasn't loading, but I'm not sure if it's related.

[Xawyx-2]

Me too, it's related (according to some AI chatbots).

[douride2]

Yes GAG was having issues yesterday afternoon & I also had issues with cloud fare this morning.

[exitseven]

When I logged into GaG I could not connect.

[FreyaRed]

Didn't even notice.

[Xawyx-2]

Lucky you.

[beenherebefore]

Yea some servers were down earlier today.

[Anonymous]

This is the main news headline today.

[CubaPirate]

Absolutely 💯 %

[NervousIndividual]

Yesterday I did.