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The Framework website right now: You are now in line. Thank you for your patience. Your estimated wait time is 7 minutes. We are experiencing

The Framework website right now: You are now in line. Thank you for your patience. Your estimated wait time is 7 minutes. We are experiencing a high volume of traffic and using a virtual queue to limit the amount of users on the website at the same time. This will ensure you have the best possible online experience. What the hell, Cloudflare? CDN with a wait time, really?

aroman 2y ago
Lol - it's not that Cloudflare can't handle the traffic. It's the _framework_ can't handle the traffic and set up Cloudflare to ratelimit entry using their Waiting Room[0] product. Clearly poorly messaged if it made you think it was a Cloudflare capacity issue! [0] https://www.cloudflare.com/application-services/products/waiting-room/ https://www.cloudflare.com/application-services/products/wai...
- winrid 2y ago
  Quite funny as one of these desktops could likely handle the traffic :)
  - lionkor 2y ago
    Not when every second line of code in the framework (haha) used really boils down to 250 calls and abstractions, when most of it is probably just strcpy()
- rkagerer 2y ago
  WTF indeed, Framework. The whole point of a CDN is to keep your website operational when the number of visits scale up. A "waiting room" might as well be a 404. Here's a screenshot of https://frame.work/ca/en/blog/category/news https://frame.work/ca/en/blog/category/news: https://i.imgur.com/7BcLyCX.png https://i.imgur.com/7BcLyCX.png There's nothing up there that couldn't be statically cached.
  - frosting1337 2y ago
    Except, you know, the entire dynamic functionality of purchasing everything. Taht can't be cached.
    - rkagerer 2y ago
      That would be a sensible place to use a queue, too bad it's not constrained to there. I'm not familiar with how granular the CloudFlare feature is - could they have enabled it only for a portion of their site like https://frame.work/marketplace https://frame.work/marketplace? Otherwise, could be a good reason to use subdomains when architecting sites, say shop.framework.com.
- ed_mercer 2y ago
  This is weird. You can’t handle the load of a planned announcement on your landing page, in 2025? Something tells me their CTO role could use a new hire.

aroman 2y ago

Lol - it's not that Cloudflare can't handle the traffic. It's the _framework_ can't handle the traffic and set up Cloudflare to ratelimit entry using their Waiting Room[0] product. Clearly poorly messaged if it made you think it was a Cloudflare capacity issue! [0] https://www.cloudflare.com/application-services/products/waiting-room/ https://www.cloudflare.com/application-services/products/wai...

winrid 2y ago
Quite funny as one of these desktops could likely handle the traffic :)
- lionkor 2y ago
  Not when every second line of code in the framework (haha) used really boils down to 250 calls and abstractions, when most of it is probably just strcpy()
rkagerer 2y ago
WTF indeed, Framework. The whole point of a CDN is to keep your website operational when the number of visits scale up. A "waiting room" might as well be a 404. Here's a screenshot of https://frame.work/ca/en/blog/category/news https://frame.work/ca/en/blog/category/news: https://i.imgur.com/7BcLyCX.png https://i.imgur.com/7BcLyCX.png There's nothing up there that couldn't be statically cached.
- frosting1337 2y ago
  Except, you know, the entire dynamic functionality of purchasing everything. Taht can't be cached.
  - rkagerer 2y ago
    That would be a sensible place to use a queue, too bad it's not constrained to there. I'm not familiar with how granular the CloudFlare feature is - could they have enabled it only for a portion of their site like https://frame.work/marketplace https://frame.work/marketplace? Otherwise, could be a good reason to use subdomains when architecting sites, say shop.framework.com.
ed_mercer 2y ago
This is weird. You can’t handle the load of a planned announcement on your landing page, in 2025? Something tells me their CTO role could use a new hire.