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Re: CloudFlare is blocking traffic to Discord

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Post by lwhi »

neodymiumphish wrote: post #590
lwhi wrote: post #589

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What chance does a small team without a large amount of funding honestly have of competing with any of these businesses? I'm trying to talk generally about the concept of monopolies in a supposed free market economy and the need for regulation. Fundamentally, we don't necessarily need business to operate at the scale its grown to. The only reason these businesses have grown so vastly is because it increases profit in…

Except that the examples I gave fly directly in the face of the situation you're stating. Amazon replaced Walmart with exponentially less starting cash. Netflix did the same to the entire media industry. Venture capital and business loans could easily fund the next big industry giant provided the barriers to entry aren't astronomical. But corporations are utilizing their lobbying powers to capture the relevant regula…

Corporatism and cronyism are major factors that create monopolies.

Re: CloudFlare is blocking traffic to Discord

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Post by blue_cube »

ascar wrote: post #380

Discord desktop client is having an outage due to cloudflare. You are not blocked from discord, this is an error and will resolve itself with time. In the meantime you can go to discord.com and use the web application or the mobile version. They both are not affected. @dang can we block comments on this or delete or something?

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Re: CloudFlare is blocking traffic to Discord

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Post by Fnoord »

ascar wrote: post #428
asidoanspo wrote: post #396

why would you want to delete valid concerns?

if you read the comments posted here and know the spirit of this community, it's pretty obvious this isn't in the spirit of it. People need information, but this isn't the place for "me too".

It seems a lot of the crap comments got flagged and are dead, and wow it is a lot. Feels like an infestation. I don't remember seeing such here.

Re: CloudFlare is blocking traffic to Discord

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Post by TheHappyOddish »

methou wrote: post #27

When the url says discord.com, it makes me feel like there's an official statement from discord. Clicked into, just a homepage.

Yeah, I cannot work out what happened here from the title, link and comments. Do Cloudflare provide ISP services? Is Cloudflares DNS not resolving Discord? Is Discord using Cloudflare as a CDN?

What is "blocking traffic" in this context?

Re: CloudFlare is blocking traffic to Discord

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Post by reportgunner »

TheHappyOddish wrote: post #597
methou wrote: post #27

When the url says discord.com, it makes me feel like there's an official statement from discord. Clicked into, just a homepage.

Yeah, I cannot work out what happened here from the title, link and comments. Do Cloudflare provide ISP services? Is Cloudflares DNS not resolving Discord? Is Discord using Cloudflare as a CDN? What is "blocking traffic" in this context?

Nothing happened, people overreacted. Desktop client of Discord didn't work for like 30 min but phone apps and browsers worked fine.
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