> They are essentially doing glorified bikeshedding, and providing an explainer of how BGP works that can be gleaned by reading virtually any introductory text

> They are essentially doing glorified bikeshedding, and providing an explainer of how BGP works that can be gleaned by reading virtually any introductory text on it, and using it as a marketing opportunity. I mean, I'm not really sure what the purpose of a corporate blog is except that? You make posts about whatever will garner attention in order to get some views, maybe spread some information, and - of course - turn it into a marketing opportunity. That's the job, no? > Is anyone else kinda put off by how Cloudflare keeps interjecting themselves into this situation? Personally? No. Although amusingly, a non-technical friend of mine took the twitter posts they made as a sign that Cloudflare had caused the outage somehow, so it's certainly possible there's a risk there. And from one of your other comments: > Next time Cloudflare's CDN eats itself and starts vomiting up private customer data, Facebook can do a blogpost titled 'Understanding how Cloudflare exposed the private information of untold numbers of its customers'. Yes, they should totally do that (at least if they have anything informative to contribute, as I think Cloudflare does here). Why would this be a bad thing, or a reason not to talk about Facebook's issues? And I mean, at one point today something like 6+ of the top 10 links on HN were about Facebook, so I mean, everyone else is talking about them. Why not Cloudflare? And if and when Cloudflare has their next big issue, everyone will be talking about them either way.