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Discord is down due to Cloudflare

36 points by tomalaci 3y ago

ascar 3y ago
this was posted here and flagged https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37701476 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37701476 I don't know why it's flagged tho, because it's true. I can confirm my desktop client is blocked (same screen as in the article), but funnily enough I can go to discord.com and login through the webinterface. Maybe they disabled the cloudflare CDN as an emergency measure in their webapp?
- yakubin 3y ago
  The comments in that thread are really something. I think it's better for it to stay flagged. Alternatively all the green comments should go.
  - ascar 3y ago
    yea blocked Discord users googling for help and it's the first result. it being flagged doesn't take it off Google though. It's the first hit for me when Googling "discord block"
  - Suzuran 3y ago
    [flagged]
- thefurdrake 3y ago
  Well. That was an adventure. I'm not going to lie, I laughed. A lot. This was one of those moments where the broader internet floods into a niche corner of existence, and it's kind of fascinating to see just how sharply internet culture can clash. "calm down socrates" ~ pissgocker
scarygliders 3y ago
I can get in via browser but not via the desktop client.
- korv 3y ago
  Firefox works for me, Chrome does not.
  - scarygliders 3y ago
    Yeah I tested with Firefox.
frou_dh 3y ago
It really emphasises that the desktop client is a glorified webapp that the entire window from top to bottom is nothing but a Cloudflare error page: https://i.imgur.com/LvUvcUW.png https://i.imgur.com/LvUvcUW.png
- raxxorraxor 3y ago
  It probably comes with a large feature set to extract more system information that a browser already tends to provide.
  - iudqnolq 3y ago
    Or to have notifications work reliably.
  - iotku 3y ago
    Basically: - Scan your system processes (and associated window titles) - "native" screen capture - Game overlay - Global hotkeys It's plenty possible to just use discord in the browser if you don't care of any of the above
ChrisArchitect 3y ago
[dupe]
- ChrisArchitect 3y ago
  More discussion over here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37701476 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37701476

36 points by tomalaci 3y ago

this was posted here and flagged https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37701476 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37701476 I don't know why it's flagged tho, because it's true. I can confirm my desktop client is blocked (same screen as in the article), but funnily enough I can go to discord.com and login through the webinterface. Maybe they disabled the cloudflare CDN as an emergency measure in their webapp?

yakubin 3y ago
The comments in that thread are really something. I think it's better for it to stay flagged. Alternatively all the green comments should go.
- ascar 3y ago
  yea blocked Discord users googling for help and it's the first result. it being flagged doesn't take it off Google though. It's the first hit for me when Googling "discord block"
- Suzuran 3y ago
  [flagged]
thefurdrake 3y ago
Well. That was an adventure. I'm not going to lie, I laughed. A lot. This was one of those moments where the broader internet floods into a niche corner of existence, and it's kind of fascinating to see just how sharply internet culture can clash. "calm down socrates" ~ pissgocker

scarygliders 3y ago

I can get in via browser but not via the desktop client.

korv 3y ago
Firefox works for me, Chrome does not.
- scarygliders 3y ago
  Yeah I tested with Firefox.

frou_dh 3y ago

It really emphasises that the desktop client is a glorified webapp that the entire window from top to bottom is nothing but a Cloudflare error page: https://i.imgur.com/LvUvcUW.png https://i.imgur.com/LvUvcUW.png

raxxorraxor 3y ago
It probably comes with a large feature set to extract more system information that a browser already tends to provide.
- iudqnolq 3y ago
  Or to have notifications work reliably.
- iotku 3y ago
  Basically: - Scan your system processes (and associated window titles) - "native" screen capture - Game overlay - Global hotkeys It's plenty possible to just use discord in the browser if you don't care of any of the above

ChrisArchitect 3y ago

[dupe]

ChrisArchitect 3y ago
More discussion over here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37701476 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37701476