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Cloudflare took down our website after trying to force us to pay $120000 within 24h (robindev.substack.com)
submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by starman@programming.dev to c/technology@lemmy.world
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Also, interesting comment I found on HackerNews (HN):

This post was definitely demoted by HN. It stayed in the first position for less than 5 minutes and, as it quickly gathered upvotes, it jumped straight into 24th and quickly fell off the first page as it got 200 or so more points in less than an hour.

I'm 80% confident HN tried to hide this link. It's the fastest downhill I've noticed on here, and I've been lurking and commenting for longer than 10 years.

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[–] catalog3115@lemmy.world 13 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Does this mean hackernews & cloudflare are colluding together?

[–] tedu@azorius.net 44 points 6 months ago (1 children)

A simpler explanation is that users are tired of everybody with a customer support issue running to daddy HN and making a big fuss trying to get their way.

[–] moonpiedumplings@programming.dev 10 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

After Twitter went to shit, where else do customers have to go for customer support like this?

Admittedly, I didn't read the article, but I have seen plenty of other cases woth cloudfare or other big providers where people have only been able to set things right by kicking up a fuss on social media

like that recent one with amazon aws.

[–] twei@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 6 months ago

I didn't read the article

Don't worry, neither did anyone else in this thread