CloudFlare is blocking traffic to Discord • Hacker News Board

arab_rat wrote: post #496

deelan_ wrote: post #453

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This thread is currently at the top on Google searches for "Discord block", "Discord Cloudflare" and similar. It seems this is causing a flood of people that aren't really accustomed to constructive discussions like the ones usually held here, as this thread is currently full of: - "I have the same problem" - "Someone has a fix please" followed by questionable remedies - Some kind of Nazi troll (Not making this up, l…

What do the "constructive discussions" usually look like here

An example of a time when Cloudflare had an outage and the usual audience discussed it would be https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31820635.

Most HN readers know what Cloudflare is, know that Cloudflare occasionally blocks legitimate users for no good reason, and know that if every Discord user is unable to access the desktop app because Cloudflare is blocking their entire userbase then the Discord on-call engineers are almost certainly having a busy day.

If you're interested in learning what Cloudflare is and how to use it, you could read https://developers.cloudflare.com/learning-paths/get-started..., or if you're interested in reading some material that's more critical you can see the previous discussion about it at https://hn.algolia.com/?q=cloudflare.

Re: CloudFlare is blocking traffic to Discord

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Post by deelan_ » Fri, Sep 29, 2023, 1:28 PM UTC

slumberlust wrote: post #469

PlutoIsAPlanet wrote: post #346

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lot of new accounts not even reading the thread and asking why they've been blocked.

"Will I be able to make my dnd session?!" Kinda cute, maybe we'll find a new generation of HN members!

I used to lurk here all the time, and now this thread pushed me to finally create an account and comment :)

I'm part of Gen Z, so I guess you can count me in? Haha

Re: CloudFlare is blocking traffic to Discord

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Post by Bmtmdoez » Fri, Sep 29, 2023, 1:44 PM UTC

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