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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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[–] Tramort@programming.dev 175 points 6 months ago (44 children)

Jesus. Something shady is happening with cloudflare.

That does not inspire confidence.

[–] slaacaa@lemmy.world 114 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (13 children)

The biggest red flag is the up-front payment for a year, gives the indication that they are in actual financial trouble, meaning short in cash right now.

Fucking idiots could have been just increasing the price yearly without any resistance, it’s unlikely a big casino would care about an extra 50-100 per month.

[–] Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 4 points 6 months ago

The biggest red flag is the up-front payment for a year

Another comment pointed out this was probably to prevent them from signing up for a month then using that month to bounce to another provider

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