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Cloudflare was down
- LucasLanglois 10mo agoLove that Cloudflare put together a participative and community-driven advent calendar!
- nrhrjrjrjtntbt 10mo agoNot as down as last time. My site is up.
- songtianlun1 10mo agoyes...
- thiscatis 10mo agoSomebody at Cloudflare is stretching that initial investigation time as much as possible to avoid having to update their status to being down and losing that Christmas bonus.
- kaliqt 10mo agoNPM is down as a result.
- chokominto 10mo agoCraaazzzyy
- mercurialsolo 10mo agoAs is supabase
- Andugal 10mo agoNotion is also down as a result
- arunaugustine 10mo agoShopify is down.
- Geep5 10mo agoClaude RIP
- dinoqqq 10mo agoLinkedIn, Perplexity as well
- mercurialsolo 10mo agoshopify.com
- xyproto 10mo agoYes. Weird that https://www.cloudflarestatus.com/ https://www.cloudflarestatus.com/ isn't reporting this properly. It should be full of red blinking lights.
- rollulus 10mo agoNot weird, that’s tradition by now.
- Havoc 10mo agoIt’s wild how non of the big corporations can make a functional status page
- dncornholio 10mo agoThey can. They don't want to though.
- javier2 10mo agoThey could, but accurate reporting is not good for their SLAs
- csomar 10mo ago> In progress - Scheduled maintenance is currently in progress. We will provide updates as necessary. Dec 05, 2025 - 07:00 UTC Something must have gone really wrong.
- shafyy 10mo agoLife hack: Announce bug that brings your entire network down as scheduled maintenance.
- headmelted 10mo agoIt's 1AM in San Francisco right now. I don't envy the person having to call Matthew Prince and wake him up for this one. And I feel really bad for the person that forgot a closing brace in whatever config file did this.
- headmelted 10mo agoClaude offline too. 500 errors on the web and the mobile app has been knocked out.
- lionkor 10mo agoI had to switch to Gemini for it to help me form a thought so I could type this reply. Its dire.
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- mercurialsolo 10mo agoclaude code works tho
- sammy2255 10mo ago500 internal server error on most things: 500 Internal Server Error cloudflare
- pzs 10mo agoJust experienced this and came here to check, because even their website is down. The referenced link also returns with 500.
- headmelted 10mo ago"In progress - Scheduled maintenance is currently in progress. We will provide updates as necessary. Dec 05, 2025 - 07:00 UTC" No need. Yikes.
- imperfectfourth 10mo agodowndetector is also down
- maxlin 10mo agoit being the first google result and serving the exact same error as the pages one is trying to get info from is too funny
- AmateurAlert 10mo agohttps://downdetector.com/ https://downdetector.com/ classic
- 26d0 10mo agohmm... https://downdetectorsdowndetector.com/ https://downdetectorsdowndetector.com/ (edit: it's working now (detecting downdetector's down))
- aurareturn 10mo agoEhh, so down detector for down detector is up but it is inaccurate.
- xyproto 10mo agoA wrong downdetectordowntector is worse than a 500 one. :D
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- deveesh_shetty 10mo agoYou had one job.
- Andugal 10mo agoSo DownDetector is down, but DownDetectorDownDetector does not detect it... We probably need one more DownDetector. (no)
- halgir 10mo agoWe have one. But according to Down Detector's Down Detector's Down Detector's Down Detector, that's also down.
- strangeness 10mo agoWho knows, maybe it will be because of C or C++ this time. Or something else.
- etyhhgfff 10mo agoThey rewrote some of their core components from nginx+LuaJit to Rust for better perf and lateny recently. I guess there are some bugs in the new codebase.
- piker 10mo agoAt least the 500 error announces ownership. Imagine how productive we'll be now!
- jonathanlydall 10mo agoIt seems regular reverse proxying and R2 still works, as we use those and seem to be working fine still. Can't get to the Dashboard though.
- rvz 10mo agoRound 2 of Cloudflare outages. We can now see which companies have failed in their performative systems design interviews. Looking forward to the post-mortem.
- sharts 10mo agoHaHa -Nelson
- csomar 10mo agoInterestingly, my site running on workers https://codeinput.com https://codeinput.com is still functioning. Worth mentioning that I don't use Cloudflare firewall/caching (directly exposed workers)
- c16 10mo agoCloudFlare: You can't go down if you're never up.
- pm90 10mo agoThis is not good. One major outage? Something exceptional. Several outages in a short time? As someone thats worked in operations, I have empathy; there are so many “temp havks” that are put in place for incidents. but the rest of the world won’t… they’re gonna suffer a massive reputation loss if this goes on as long as the last one.
- karmakurtisaani 10mo agoProbably fired a lot of their best people in the past few years and replaced it with AI. They have a de-facto monopoly, so we'll just accept it and wait patiently until they fix the problem. You know, business as usual in the grift economy.
- rvz 10mo agoThe "AI agents" are on holiday when an outage like this happens.
- 5d41402abc4b 10mo ago>They have a de-facto monopoly On what? There are lots of CDN providers out there.
- mvdtnz 10mo agoThis didn't happen at all. You're just completely making shit up.
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- dev0p 10mo agoIsn't it happening a little too often now? Did someone .unwrap in production again?
- tovej 10mo agoInternet-level companies are having more outages recently. Is the exposed surface area increasing or is the quality of service suffering?
- timvdalen 10mo agoWow, just plain 500s on customer sites. That's a level of down you don't see that often.
- gwd 10mo agoUnlike the previous outage, my server seems fine, and I can use Cloudflare's tunnel to ssh to the host as well.
- disillusioned 10mo agoAt least they branded it!
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- ablation 10mo agoYeah that's a hard 500 right? Not even Cloudflare's 500 branded page like last time. What could have caused this, I wonder.
- Hamuko 10mo agoI hope it’s not another Result.unwrap().
- singularity2001 10mo agomaybe this would cause rust to adopt exception handling, and by exception I mean panic
- mckirk 10mo ago"A cable!" "How do you know?" "I'm holding it!"
- willtemperley 10mo agoYes Claude is down with a 500 (cloudflare).
- sushidev 10mo agoAre you serious?
- moralestapia 10mo agoOoof, this one looks like a big one! canva.com chess.com claude.com coinbase.com kraken.com linkedin.com medium.com notion.so npmjs.com shopify.com (!) and many more I won't add bc I don't want to be spammy. Edit: Just checked all my websites hosted there (~12), they're all ok. Other people with small websites are doing well. Only huge sites seem to be down. Perhaps they deal with them separately, the premium-tier of Cloudflare clients, ... and those went down, dang.
- reddalo 10mo agoMy small websites are also up. I wonder if they're going to go down soon, or if we're safe.
- shultays 10mo agozoom
- otherme123 10mo agoreadthedocs down is hurting me the most. My small websites are doing OK.
- atraac 10mo agoAll those enterprise architects must be fuming now
- aurareturn 10mo agoMy company's services went down as well.
- SherryWong 10mo agoLinkedIn and MEdium are also down as a result
- chinathrow 10mo agoLooks like (some) sites behind Cloudflare still work if they do not have caching on.
- jonathanlydall 10mo agoIt's not simply about caching as we have CDN and reverse proxying which are still running without issue.
- nabla9 10mo agoIt's configuration error or related to configuration. It always is with this big things. Nice thing about Cloudflare being down is that almost everything is down at once. Time for peace and quiet.
- norskeld 10mo agoDamn, I wish CloudFlare being down also affected local development, so I could take a break from doing frontend… :'(
- da_grift_shift 10mo agohttps://www.cloudflarestatus.com/incidents/hlr9djcf3nyp https://www.cloudflarestatus.com/incidents/hlr9djcf3nyp >We will be performing scheduled maintenance in ORD (Chicago) datacenter >Traffic might be re-routed from this location, hence there is a possibility of a slight increase in latency during this maintenance window for end-users in the affected region. Looks like it's not just Chicago that CF brought down...
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- yessferatu 10mo agoSouth African here. Down on our side. Huge sites, like our primary news site is down - medical services, emergency service/information etc... all down. It's been like this since 11:00am our time, so about 13minutes now.
- maxlin 10mo ago>Go to <social media page> - 500 error from cloudflare >Google is <social media page> down -> click first link - literally the exact same 500 cloudflare error html from downdetector I thought we were meant to learn something ... ?
- theginger 10mo agoI don't want to criticize cloud flare, I love what they do and understand the scale of the challenge, but most people don't and 2 in a month or so like this is going to hit their reputation.
- The_President 10mo agoAfter being overly critical of Matrix the other day on here I have reeled back into another conclusion, is that talent issues are industry wide and it sucks making a bad hire where competence issues arise that don’t match the resume.
- 3xstphvs 10mo agoaw, i cant go on rateyourmusic
- phartenfeller 10mo agoWow, three times in a month is really crushing their trust.
- dabeeeenster 10mo ago3?! When was the second>
- ubercore 10mo agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46140145 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46140145
- 8cvor6j844qw_d6 10mo agoI'll need to checkup on DigitalOcean uptime, may be better than Cloudflare.
- phartenfeller 10mo agoMy Hetzner servers have been running fine for years. Okay, there were times when I broke something, but at least I was able to fix it quickly and never felt dependent on others.
- iso1631 10mo agoCxOs want to be dependent on someone else, specifically suppliers with pieces of paper saying "we are great, here's a 1% discount on next years renewal" If the in house tech team breaks something and fixes it, that's great from an engineer point of view - we like to be useful, but the person at the top is blamed. If an outsourced supplier (one which the consultants recommend, look at Gartner Quadrants etc) fails, then the person at the top is not blamed, even though they are powerless and the outage is 10 times longer and 10 times as frequent. Outsourcing is not about outcome, it's about accountability, and specifically avoiding it.
- isaac3307 10mo agoThis is so cool guys. All of us get to lose millions of dollars together so late at night!
- countWSS 10mo agoEverything i use depend on perfect cloudflare operation workflow, practically 99% of these services go down. What magical qualities it has that no competitors form for its services?
- nicolailolansen 10mo agoThey had a few good weeks.
- arunaugustine 10mo agoThey had a scheduled maintenance between 7am and 11am UTC in Chicago. But that should have re-routed traffic not take down internet right?
- makkoncept 10mo agohttps://downdetectorsdowndetector.com/ https://downdetectorsdowndetector.com/ is up :) but the status is not correct.
- matt3210 10mo agoOoof status 500 someone’s getting fiiiiired!
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- Hashversion 10mo agohow long cloudflarestatus.com takes it to detect usually?
- valdemarrolfsen 10mo agoNo engineers from Cloudflare reading hackernews these days? Should update your status page!
- Palmik 10mo agoThis is second time this week: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46140145 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46140145 The previous one affected European users for >1h and made many Cloudflare websites nearly unusable for them.
- 0xfedcafe 10mo agoFunny how even safe Rust isn’t able to stop vibecoding without a proper validation. And the fact that it's a monopoly isn't so funny anymore.
- dkdbejwi383 10mo agoThere is no language that makes it impossible to have any kind of bug ever. The safety languages like Rust offer is around memory, not bad configuration or faulty business logic.
- lionkor 10mo agoRust is one of the few languages where I found AI to be very well checked. The type system can enforce so many constraints that you do avoid lots of bugs, and the AI will get caught writing shit code. Of course, vibe coding will always find a way to make something horribly broken but pretty.
- m078 10mo agoCloudflare is investigating issues with Cloudflare Dashboard and related APIs.
- wildcard1210 10mo agomy shopify store is down
- ojm 10mo agoTurnstile seems up still.
- aroman 10mo agolooks like a big one. interestingly, our site, which uses a TON of Cloudflare services[0] — yet not their front-line proxy — is doing fine: https://magicgarden.gg https://magicgarden.gg. So it seems like it's just the big ol' "throw this big orange reverse proxy in front of your site for better uptime!" is what's broken... [0] Workers, Durable Objects, KV, R2, etc
- bpye 10mo agoMoving off of Cloudflare for my personal domain is on my todo list for the holidays...
- reassess_blind 10mo agoMy sites that use their main proxy are seemingly up and working? Could be a regional PoP issue.
- wildcard1210 10mo agoMy Shopify store is down. My competitor stores are also down.
- _cenw 10mo agoThat's the 30% vibe code they promised us. Cynicism aside, something seems to be going wrong in our industry.
- nlitened 10mo agoAlso “Rewrite it in Rust”. P.S. it’s a joke, guys, but you have to admit it’s at least partially what’s happening
- koakuma-chan 10mo agoNo, it has nothing to do with Rust.
- zwnow 10mo agoThe first one had something to do with Rust :-)
- kortilla 10mo agoNot really. In C or C++ that could have just been a segfault. .unwrap() literally means “I’m not going to handle the error branch of this result, please crash”.
- mike_hearn 10mo agoIndeed, but fortunately there are more languages in the world than Rust and C++. A language that performed decently well and used exceptions systematically (Java, Kotlin, C#) would probably have recovered from a bad data file load.
- koakuma-chan 10mo agoThere is nothing that prevents you from recovering from a bad data file load in Rust. The programmer who wrote that code chose to crash.
- nromiun 10mo agoI wonder if it is another bug , like unwrap, in their rewritten code. Also, I don't think their every service got affected. I am using their proxy and pages service and both are still up.
- davidcheungo123 10mo agowtf, cannot work now
- paweladamczuk 10mo agoI noticed this when my Claude iPhone app stopped working.
- Hashversion 10mo agocloudflare pages seems to be working!
- xingwu 10mo agoClassic. https://imgur.com/a/B3QxB1R https://imgur.com/a/B3QxB1R
- alextingle 10mo ago"Content not available in your region." Please avoid Imgur.
- sebzim4500 10mo agoUse a vpn or avoid the UK
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- odie5533 10mo agoHow is Hacker News still up?
- sunbum 10mo agoBecause it doesn't use cloudflare duh.?
- otherme123 10mo agoI have a handful of sites DNS/NS through Cloudflare, with their certificates, and they are working OK.
- PrayagS 10mo agoFrom their response headers, it seems like the request is coming from NGINX directly. How do they defend themselves against DOS attacks?
- sunbum 10mo agoBig server. And if it goes down it goes down? Who cares, it's hackernews.
- grundrausch3n 10mo agoI thought they are running classic FreeBSD servers like in ye olde times.
- yread 10mo agoHah even Linkedin is showing 500 for me
- computersuck 10mo agowaaay too soon
- b_bloch 10mo agoThat's quite unfortunate xD
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- SCdF 10mo agoReally disappointed that down detectors down detector[1] isn't detecting that down detector[2] is down [1] https://downdetectorsdowndetector.com/ https://downdetectorsdowndetector.com/ [2] https://downdetector.com/ https://downdetector.com/
- ccdragon 10mo ago[dead]
- meindnoch 10mo agoMaybe they should stop vibe coding and vibe reviewing their PRs?
- Dilettante_ 10mo ago"I warned you about Cloudflare bro!!!! I told you dog!"
- grim_io 10mo agoI wonder how many uptime SLAs will be violated this year.
- virtualritz 10mo agoYeah, and because of this for example Claude Code is down too because the auth goes through CF. F*cking marvelus, the decentralized web ...
- reneberlin 10mo agoI can imagine the horror of pressure of the people responsible for resolution. On that scale of impact it is very hard to keep calm - but still the hive of minds have to cooperate and solve the puzzle while the world is basically halted and ready to blame the company you work for.
- ricardo81 10mo agoTheir uptime over the year is likely faring worse than your average hosting company, DNS provider or CDN.
- vimwizard 10mo agoshe's back
- igleria 10mo agoHeads will roll at cloudfare. E-commerce customers must be furious. Impossible not to feel bad for whoever is tasked to cleanup the mess.
- zppln 10mo agoEspecially around christmas. I was about to buy a pair of Birkenstocks. Nope, site is down. Went on to buy a microphone holder, nope, that site is down as well. :) Sure, I'll still get around to it eventually.
- domysee 10mo agoI'm just realizing how much we depend on Cloudflare working. Every service I use is unreachable. Even worse than last time. It's almost impossible to do any work atm.
- yoctosec 10mo agoI use Cloudflare because of their Tunnel to protect my Raspberry Pi, but I think I will just use it without the Tunnel now. My main concern is privacy, but I'm not ready to accept so frequent downtime and dependence on them. The whole reason to host self-host was to be independent anyway. Does anyone have a recommendation for that (that is free)? Should I worry about privacy? My name and my city are on the website anyway.
- runeb 10mo agoCheckout tailscale
- yoctosec 10mo agoAnd what about a website I want to make public? I'm just concerned about my IP being visible, like for my personal website or my searxng instance
- unixfox 10mo agoTailscale's control plane uses Cloudflare.
- runeb 10mo agoThanks, I did not know this. My Tailscale was unaffected by the outage.
- DocJade 10mo agomy tunnels are still working, oddly
- LeonenTheDK 10mo agoNice, just got woken up by my outage alarms, just for it to be Cloudflare again. At least it's _my_ problem! But my goodness, they're really struggling over the last couple weeks... Can't wait to read the next blog post.
- koakuma-chan 10mo agoOutage alarms?
- bytejanitor 10mo agogitlab.com hasn't noticed yet.
- alex_suzuki 10mo agoit has now, for me. can't access web UI (SaaS, not self-hosted, obviously)
- erikbye 10mo agoThis is getting embarrassing.
- hasperdi 10mo agoEven LinkedIn is now down. Opening linkedin.com gives me a 500 server error and Cloudflare at the bottom. Quite embarassing.
- _cenw 10mo agoAt least they were available when Front Door was down!
- Oras 10mo agoWent to ahref to check a domain, saw 500 and came here to check. I have a few domains on cloudflare and all of them are working with no issues so it might not be a global issue
- jazzyjackson 10mo agoIs it at all achievable to be fronted by a CDN but fallback to the raw server in case the front falls off? Better to be vulnerable to DDoS than be unreachable altogether
- calyhre 10mo agoBut then you end up potentially exposing the origin server. This could be an opt-in option though
- koolba 10mo agoWith CloudFlare specifically probably not. IIRC, they require DNS resolution of your domain to operate so if they’re down, I don’t see how you’d change it to route directly to the underlying site. Even if you could, having two sets of TLS termination is going to be a pain as well.
- basisword 10mo agoI’m sure everybody learnt their lesson from last months outage and built in redundancy or stopped relying on Cloudflare.
- matt3210 10mo agoEveryone says vibe coding but people are just fine at being incompetent without the AI help
- koolba 10mo agoSure, but with AI we can automate that incompetence.
- jondot 10mo agoLinkedIn is down
- CodinM 10mo agocame here for this thx
- rgun 10mo agohttps://registry.npmjs.org/ https://registry.npmjs.org/ is down, affecting our builds
- CGamesPlay 10mo agoSo is https://hub.docker.com https://hub.docker.com which is why I am here and not doing useful work.
- erikbye 10mo agoCloudflare uptime has worsened a lot lately, AI coding has increased exponentially, hmm
- meerab 10mo agoIt is up now!
- dale1110 10mo agoYou sure?
- dale1110 10mo agoJust checked. It's up!!
- wyboy86110 10mo agonope... order page is still 500
- Ueland 10mo agoInterestingly enough, also some MS/Azure services are down. For example https://www.office.com/ https://www.office.com/ just returns: >We are sorry, something went wrong. >Please try refreshing the page in a few minutes. If the problem persists, please visit status.cloud.microsoft for updates regarding known issues. The status page of course says nothing
- GeertVL 10mo agoLinkedin -> the same
- nikanj 10mo agoFor me Linkedin returns the 500 cloudflare error
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- codeisforever 10mo agoSeems all of Shopify.com is down. Every store
- vinskabun 10mo agopixiv.net
- justmarc 10mo agoObligatory song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OC06Z6lCB_Q&t=30s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OC06Z6lCB_Q&t=30s
- ianberdin 10mo agoNPM is down. World is collapsing thanks to Cloudflare.
- w4zz 10mo agogitlab down aswell
- neo_tokyo 10mo agoSomeone's been vibe coding the scheduled maintenance.
- samwreww 10mo agoclaude.ai is down bc of it :( good for OpenAI as they're using something else maybe Vercel?
- ThalesX 10mo agoI just started getting npm errors while developing something; I was like hmm, strange... then I tried to go down to isitdown. That was also down. I was like, oh this must be something local to me (I'm in a remote place visiting my gramps). Then I go to Hacker News to check. Lo and behold, it's Cloudflare. This is sort of worrying...
- nlstitch 10mo agoWhat ever happened to "no deploys on fridays"? haha
- kenonet 10mo agohaha for real
- ianberdin 10mo agoI have 10B idea: cloudflare that does not fail so often.
- reddalo 10mo agoIt exists and it's called Bunny.net
- biql 10mo agoHow about: internet that is actually decentralized.
- ianberdin 10mo agoYes, on one hand, it was so wonderful. Cloudflare came and said, "Yeah, now we'll save everyone from DDoS, everything's perfect, we'll speed up your site," and bam, they became a bottleneck for the entire internet. It's some kind of nightmare. Why didn't several other such popular startups appear, into which more money was invested, and which would allow some failure points to be created? I don't understand this. Or at least Cloudflare itself should have had some backup mechanism, so that in case of failures, something still works, even slowly, or at least they could redirect traffic directly, bypassing their proxies. They just didn't do that at all. Something is definitely wrong.
- viraptor 10mo ago> Why didn't several other such popular startups appear bunny.net fastly.com gcore.com keycdn.com Cloudfront Probably some more I forgot now. CF is not the only option and definitely not the best option. > Yeah, now we'll save everyone from DDoS, everything's perfect, we'll speed up your site, ... and host the providers selling DDoS services. https://privacy-pc.com/articles/spy-jacking-the-booters.html https://privacy-pc.com/articles/spy-jacking-the-booters.html
- ianberdin 10mo agoThank you for sending these alternatives, they look good. And, of course, the most important thing is that Cloudflare is free, while these alternatives cost money. And they cost hundreds of dollars at my traffic volume of tens of terabytes. Of course, I really don't want to pay. So, as they say, mice wept and jabbed, but they kept gnawing on the cactus.
- MildlySerious 10mo agoI can't update DNS entries for my domains with Porkbun, because it's "Powered by Cloudflare".
- blackhaz 10mo agoAnyone shorting the damn stock?
- nish__ 10mo agoJust in time for the London work day :)
- kinensake 10mo agoEvery time Cloudflare is down I'm not sure if it's really down or not because most down detector websites use Cloudflare. Lmao
- Artur-Defences 10mo agoThis is not a good look, at all
- manupati 10mo agoOdd
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- SwedishPerson_A 10mo agohttps://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02673843.2023.2276729 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02673843.2023.2... https://www.perplexity.ai/ https://www.perplexity.ai/ https://www.researchgate.net/ https://www.researchgate.net/ All give me "500 Internal Server Error cloudflare.." So I'm guessing yes.
- nekkooo2e 10mo agoPerplexity is down
- chistev 10mo agoIt's really cool to me that this site is never down with all these outages of major websites. Representative of having the best developers behind it.
- CafeRacer 10mo agoEven digital ocean is down :D
- nekkooo2e 10mo agoPerplexity AI shows 500 Internal Server Error
- divanvisagie 10mo agoWishbone12
- neonnbits 10mo agoi was watching the climax of "Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood" on crunchyroll and cloudflare went down again
- elijah3040448 10mo agoPretty awkward. Thought my WIFI was acting up when I wasn't even able to pull up the Cloudfare website to see if something was down. Then, trying to go to Downdetector and that wasn't working either.
- techguy1954 10mo agoI can still visit some websites that use Cloudflare, but other don't work. Blender Artists works, but DownDetector and Quillbot dont.
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- isaac3307 10mo agoThis is so cool guys!!! We all get to savor this moment and lose millions of DOLL HAIRS together!!
- isaac3307 10mo agoI love being here with you guys!!!
- segev608 10mo agoLuckly https://downdetectorsdowndetectorsdowndetectorsdowndetector.com/ https://downdetectorsdowndetectorsdowndetectorsdowndetector.... is up :)
- SwedishPerson_A 10mo agohttps://www.researchgate.net/ https://www.researchgate.net/ https://www.tandfonline.com/ https://www.tandfonline.com/ https://www.perplexity.ai/ https://www.perplexity.ai/ All give me "500 Internal Server Error cloudflare" So My guess is yes It´s down.
- cv_h 10mo agoFree accounts seem to be fine, only enterprise accounts seem to be affected.
- doublerabbit 10mo agoIrony.
- epolanski 10mo agoI can absolutely accomplish nothing today...can't download npm packages, cannot login to services. I've been a Cloudflare fan for the longest time, but the more they grow the more they look like the weak link of the internet. This is the second major outage in less than few weeks. Terrible.
- polaris64 10mo agoDownDetector'sDownDetector does not detect that DownDetector's down
- kenonet 10mo agostock going whoops
- 8cvor6j844qw_d6 10mo agoInterested if its the same issue that brought down Cloudflare previously.
- ammo1662 10mo ago"Given Cloudflare's importance in the Internet ecosystem any outage of any of our systems is unacceptable. " Is this a joke? And their blog of above statement is also down: https://blog.cloudflare.com/18-november-2025-outage/ https://blog.cloudflare.com/18-november-2025-outage/
- Towaway69 10mo agofor me docker is failing with: unknown: failed to copy: httpReadSeeker: failed open: unexpected status from GET request to https://production.cloudflare.docker.com/registry-v2/docker/registry/v2/blobs/sha256/.... so coffee time.
- monstertank 10mo agoHow do you tell if this is a cyberattack or not?
- dale1110 10mo agoTried to watch anime then realized that cloudflare was down...again. smh
- robotfelix 10mo agoOur site is fine, including files served by Cloudflare's CDN and Cloudflare Workers, but the Cloudflare dashboard is definitely down. The Cloudflare status page says that it's the dashboard and Cloudflare APIs that are down. I wonder if the problem is focused on larger sites because they are more dependent on / integrated with Cloudflare APIs. Or perhaps it's only an Enterprise tier feature that's broken. If it's not everything that is down, I guess things are slightly more resilient than last time?
- vimwizard 10mo agoseems related to CF tunnels... policies are being enforced but perhaps origin servers are not being properly served.
- kvam 10mo agoInfrastructure-as-Vibe?
- zwnow 10mo agoI love it, and we wont learn from this again :-) Looking forward for the 3rd outage in a few weeks.
- venturecruelty 10mo agoWe should have a weekly thread for it! It can be a fun meetup. Hell, move it to a cafe or a pub or something, and we can use it as a chance to disconnect from the internet and talk to people face to face. Instead of saying "touch grass", we can say "get Cloudflared".
- tin7in 10mo agoFor us also Digital Ocean, Render, and a few other vendors are down. At this point picking vendors that don't use Cloudflare in any way becomes the right thing to do.
- bigfudge 10mo agoClaude was also down (which brought me here)
- dale1110 10mo agoTried to watch anime and then i realized it was down....again. smh
- tippa123 10mo agoCurious to see which big companies were caught flat-footed during the 18 November outage compared with today. In my opinion, if a company was caught out twice, that reflects poor decision-making and urgency. As the saying goes, fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me. If a company was able to overcome all the red tape within three weeks and not be impacted today, that's impressive.
- ednevsky 10mo agoNotion is also down (haven't seen a comment on that). It's so funny how the biggest companies literally just have their sites not loading because of Cloudflare.
- hax0r1338 10mo agoThis gotta be an attack, no way its configuration error again.
- jonathrg 10mo agoWhy not? They have been proudly vibe coding for a while.
- bilekas 10mo agoThis is painful, if I'm not mistaken this is during a scheduled maintenance too ? Whenever I deploy a new release to my 5 customers, I am pedantic about having a fast rollback.. Maybe I'm not following the apparent industry standard and instead should just wing it.
- zwnow 10mo agoLet AI wing it instead.
- yellow_lead 10mo agoIs anyone else woken up by this? My company's service is down too. Considering a move away
- maxlin 10mo ago>half internet down >first "is site down" result (downdetector) down >downdetectorsdowndetector.com: "everything is fine" >downdetectorsdowndetectorsdowndetector.com: not even responding >downdetectorsdowndetectorsdowndetectorsdowndetector.com: "everything is broken"
- clark21 10mo ago[dead]
- Artur-Defences 10mo ago"Scheduled maintenance is currently in progress" I image the maintenance was conducted like this: "fix detroit data center bugs, please be very careful, don't mess up like last time :)" bypass permissions on
- tdrz 10mo agoI'm looking for cofounders and investors to build a working cloudflare.
- udarij 10mo agoIt's ok to fail, but most frustrationg thing is there's no suppoting team or any contact point accessible directly. this is bad..
- Vivianfromtheo 10mo agoThis got me and the anime community stressed
- dracotomes 10mo agoand it's back
- sandruso 10mo agoit's back on but wow, it must be stressful to deal with this
- udev4096 10mo agoClownflare strikes again!
- Artur-Defences 10mo ago"Monitoring - A fix has been implemented and we are monitoring the results."
- decimalenough 10mo agoSeems to be back up.
- StrLght 10mo agoAnd it's on Friday again — never change, Cloudflare. Gentle reminder that every affected company brought it upon themselves. Very few companies care about making their system resilient to 3rd party failures. This is just another wake-up call for them.
- max23_ 10mo agoIt is up for me. All the sites that were 500 error before are able to load now.
- JustSkyfall 10mo agoSeems to be back up?
- pprotas 10mo agoWhat a joke of a company. They have the internet in the palm of their hands, and yet let vibe coding ambitions ruin their empire. Time for everyone to drop this company and move on to better solutions (until those better solutions rot from the inside out, just like their predecessor did)
- hnarn 10mo agoOne has to wonder how many times or how often proprietary cloud services have to go down before there is a general shift away from using the cloud and "infinite scaling" for everything. For many, many use cases you do not need neither Cloudflare nor Github nor nine nines for everything (which you are clearly not getting anyway). It's obviously not enough with once a year for most businesses, or perhaps once a month. Weekly outages? For how long? If you host something that actually matters that other people depend upon and, please review your actual needs and if possible stop making yourself _completely_ dependent on giant cloud corporations.
- dodos 10mo agoLooks to be back now.
- michael-sumner 10mo agoIt's up now!!! London, UK
- lionkor 10mo agoeval(requestBody).unwrap()
- starkindustries 10mo agoNever push to production on Friday!
- jachee 10mo agoUpdate title to “Tell HN: Cloudflare was down”
- MarcelGerber 10mo agoJust started working for me again (in Germany), both on our own CF-hosted page and on cloudflare.com itself.
- Titan2189 10mo agoThey're back online it seems
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- digiajay 10mo agoBasecamp was down couple of minutes ago and it's back now online.
- 33ROC 10mo ago[dead]
- NKosmatos 10mo agoLOL, 500 returned for many big sites…this is going to hurt and make people rethink. If it’s not DNS, then someone pushed to production on Friday :-)
- elijah3040448 10mo ago[dead]
- chinathrow 10mo agoIt's back.
- jjdinho 10mo agoGodspeed, Cloudflare, for the fix
- w4zz 10mo agoUp again!
- alxbenjamin 10mo agoIt is up again. There will be a lot of hard talk with Cloudflare, I guess
- DaSilentStorm 10mo agoAaand ... we're back
- lrvick 10mo agoI was just arguing yesterday to coworkers I would quit tech before helping centralize any more of the internet on Cloudflare as a massive single point of failure. Thank you, Cloudflare, for again proving my point.
- domysee 10mo agoIt's back!
- skylurk 10mo ago> Monitoring - A fix has been implemented and we are monitoring the results. > Dec 05, 2025 - 09:12 UTC
- MrAureliusR 10mo agoYeah, cloudflare.com is working and the website that first clued me in to the outage (chess.com) is also working.
- udarij 10mo agoIt's ok to fail. but the most frustrating thing ever is... there's no contact point or supporting team easily and directly accessible.. this is bad..
- DaSilentStorm 10mo agoAaand ... we're back!
- donbox 10mo agoseems its back \m/
- yapyap 10mo agoseems to have been resolved
- BluSyn 10mo agoPerhaps related? My main fiber WAN went out few hrs ago, failing over to Starlink backup. Discovered it’s a cloudflare issue, as my multi-wan setup tests against 1.1.1.1, which suddenly stopped responding (but only from my fiber ISP). Switched to testing 8.8.8.8 to restore. If it weren’t for recent cloudflare outages, never would have considered this was the problem. Even until I saw this, I assumed it was an ISP issue, since Starlink still worked using 1.1.1.1. Now I’m thinking it’s a cloudflare routing problem?
- ianberdin 10mo agoSo, I understand correctly that all websites and services want protection from DDoS attacks, and that's basically their number one concern. The second is caching in different parts of the world. So, it's caching and DDoS. But at the same time, nobody wants to use CloudFront from AWS because it’s not that simple yet. And it’s more expensive, while Cloudflare is free. So, what should we do about all this? This won’t do. We’ve created a gigantic bottleneck that controls the entire internet, just like in the movie Mad Max, where he controlled the only source of water. That’s wrong. And we all fell for it like fools. So, the question is, what can be done in this situation? Are there reliable competitors? Are there any fault-tolerant systems for this? The whole problem is that our DNS, and with Cloudflare, they proxy it. So, if their proxy goes down, everything falls apart. What should we do about this?
- sammy2255 10mo agoNobody is being forced to use Cloudflare
- ianberdin 10mo agoSince everything is absolutely correct, no one forced it; they just provided a good, excellent solution for free, and consequently, the whole internet has gotten hooked on it. As they say, free cocaine causes harm. So, what are the alternatives? What options are there to protect against DDoS attacks and to make a website quickly accessible from different parts of the world? And at the same time, without paying a sky-high price for it.
- ectospheno 10mo ago> So, what are the alternatives? That sums up my gripe with the vocal cloudflare haters. They will tell you all day long to move but every solution they push costs more time and money.
- nedt 10mo agoEveryone trying to access a site behind Cloudflare is forced.
- someothherguyy 10mo agofor all of 20 minutes, the world cried.
- OtherShrezzing 10mo agoThe site is back up, but it feels fairly silly that a platform that has inserted itself as a single point of failure has an architecture that's got single points of failure. The other companies working at that scale have all sensibly split off into geographical regions & product verticals with redundancy & it's rare that "absolutely all of AWS everywhere is offline". This is two total global outages in as many weeks from Cloudflare, and a third "mostly global outage" the week before.
- themafia 10mo agoCrop monoculture created the potato famine. We failed to learn the larger lesson. "Hyperscale" is inherently dangerous.
- adityashankar 10mo agoit's fine now...I believe
- elcapithanos 10mo agoShortest damn outage ever
- dynamite-ready 10mo agoSome of the sites I maintain, are fine. But I'm guessing it's just a matter of time?
- scirob 10mo agoWonder if supabase auth down is also related https://status.supabase.com/incidents/rgz3dl2rcmq8 https://status.supabase.com/incidents/rgz3dl2rcmq8
- zwnow 10mo agoWill it be down for 10 days again? Who knows. Would've stopped using it after the first 10 day outage anyway.
- andy_ppp 10mo agoJust a reminder that every dependency you rely on, both inside your codebase and external services, has a price.
- madjam002 10mo agoLooking forward to the post mortem on this one. We weren't affected (just using the CDN), and people are saying they weren't affected who are using Cloudflare Workers (a previous culprit which we've since moved off), so I wonder what service / API was actually affected that brought down multiple websites with a 500 but not all of them. Wise was just down which is a pretty big one. Also odd how some websites were down this time that previously weren't down with the global outage in November
- thinkindie 10mo agowe were not affected too and we realised it was Cloudflare because Linear was down and they were mentioning an upstream service. Also Ecosia was affected, and I then realised they might be relying on Cloudflare too.
- gowthamgts12 10mo agoCDN was also affected for some customers. we were down with 500.
- m_mueller 10mo agoMaven Repository was down for me for a while, now it recovered.
- reassess_blind 10mo agoYeah it's strange. My sites that are are proxied through Cloudflare remained up, but Supabase was taken offline so some backends were down. Either a regional PoP style issue, or a specific API or service had to be used to be affected.
- archon810 10mo agoOur locations excluded from Cloudflare WAF were up, but the rest was down. I think WAF took a dump.
- kryptn 10mo agowas interesting, some of our stuff failed, but some other stuff that used cloudflare indirectly didn't.
- kUdtiHaEX 10mo agoCloudflare just closed down the incident on their status page without any additional explanation. Sigh.
- chessmaster-hex 10mo agoSome big fishes were affected as well... Crunchyroll, Fortnite, LinkedIn let's wait for the explanation of this one.
- r721 10mo agoJust after Matthew Prince's interview at Wired :) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46157295 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46157295
- Hashversion 10mo agowhat's the estimated loss? any guesses or estimations?
- capnsketch 10mo agoIf I had a nickel for everytime cloudflare went down. Then I would have 2 nickels which is not a lot but still wierd that it happened twice.
- arjie 10mo agoHow interesting. As of 00:30 or so I could still access Claude but then it went down with a 500 from Cloudflare and I thought I'd nab a quick something off Slickdeals but that's down too. My own blog is on Cloudflare's `cloudflared` tunnel and it's working just fine, even the cache, so it must be something hitting some specific type of configuration or some shard hitting some region. And they're back before I finished the comment. Such a pity, I was hoping to hog some more Claude for myself through Claude Code.
- JeremyJaydan 10mo agoI moved away from Cloudflare over a month ago because I didn't understand how they don't have pricing caps for their upgraded plans, they genuinely seem like the mob but I haven't looked any further into it.. Either way it's been interesting to see the bullets I've been dodging.
- jjude 10mo agoWhat service(s) are you using now? What did you move to?
- JeremyJaydan 10mo agoA small one (afaik) in a location that I wanted in the US [1]. I'm not running a bank so I'd prefer to just go down if I'm ever attacked. [1] https://shifthosting.com/ https://shifthosting.com/
- nickdothutton 10mo agoSo many outages now they all begin to swim into 1, what's that 3 or 4 this quarter?
- chaidhat 10mo agoFor those saying we have an over-reliance on software -- is there a way to use multiple CDNs for the same frontend website?
- reassess_blind 10mo agoThe "half the internet is down, nothing we can do" excuse works great the first time, but doesn't fly the second time in a month. What solutions are there for Multi DNS/CDN failover that don't rely on a single point of failure?
- pech0rin 10mo agoRewriting in Rust is paying dividends.
- f311a 10mo ago> A change made to how Cloudflare's Web Application Firewall parses requests caused Cloudflare's network to be unavailable for several minutes this morning. This was not an attack; the change was deployed by our team to help mitigate the industry-wide vulnerability disclosed this week in React Server Components. We will share more information as we have it today.
- cherioo 10mo agoWhere’s the source for this? It doesn’t look good when similar WAF issues caused their big outage a few years back.
- xomiachuna 10mo agohttps://www.cloudflarestatus.com/incidents/lfrm31y6sw9q https://www.cloudflarestatus.com/incidents/lfrm31y6sw9q
- hnarturpl 10mo agoWe use workers and dns proxy and I got flooded with pages. We were getting 503s from workers.
- luastoned 10mo agoFrom the incident page: A change made to how Cloudflare's Web Application Firewall parses requests caused Cloudflare's network to be unavailable for several minutes this morning. This was not an attack; the change was deployed by our team to help mitigate the industry-wide vulnerability disclosed this week in React Server Components. We will share more information as we have it today. https://www.cloudflarestatus.com/incidents/lfrm31y6sw9q https://www.cloudflarestatus.com/incidents/lfrm31y6sw9q
- philipwhiuk 10mo agoSo their parser broke again I guess. And no staged rollout I assume?
- tialaramex 10mo agoApparently somehow this had never been how Cloudflare did this. I expressed incredulity about this to one of their employees, but yeah, seems like their attitude was "We never make mistakes so it's fastest to just deploy every change across the entire system immediately" and as we've seen repeatedly in the past short while that means it sometimes blows up. They have blameless post mortems, but maybe "We actually do make mistakes so this practice is not good" wasn't a lesson anybody wanted to hear.
- rhdunn 10mo agoBlameless post mortems should be similar to air accident investigations. I.e. don't blame the people involved (unless they are acting maliciously), but identify and fix the issues to ensure this particular incident is unlikely to recur. The intent of the postmortems is to learn what the issues are and prevent or mitigate similar issues happening in the future. If you don't make changes as a result of a postmortem then there's no point in conducting them.
- Xunjin 10mo agoAgree 100%, however using your example, there is no regulatory agency that investigate the issue and demand changes to avoid related future problems. Should the industry move towards this way?
- asim 10mo agoI'd like to start seeing the architecture and design of how cloudflare works. Not blog posts, like a whole write-up. If you're going to have this many outages and you're a public company which 2/3rd of US infrastructure probably depends on then it might need some external input. Obviously they know what they're doing. This is not a blame game but the tools are starting to creak.
- import 10mo agoFraudulent status page again. For sure we are seeing something very different than what they see in the internal monitoring systems.
- maverick98 10mo agoThe quality of code in most apps has gone downhill. Let's guess why?
- reustle 10mo agoMaybe centralizing the internet wasn’t a great idea after all, huh
- glimshe 10mo agoNot only they make my browsing experience a LOT worse (seconds per site for bot detection and additional "are you human" clicks even without VPNs), now they are bringing the entire Internet down. They don't deserve the position they currently have.
- wrobelda 10mo agoYou make it sound like the DDoS and Bots are their fault.
- glimshe 10mo agoThey make gazillions. I'm sure they can do better than that. How many awful things in tech can be rationalized away by "sorry, but this is for you/our protection"?
- gilrain 10mo ago> Not only they make my browsing experience a LOT worse No, I did (metaphorically, for the websites I control). And I did it because otherwise those sites are fully offline or unusable thanks to the modern floods of unfilterable scrapers. Months of piecemeal mitigations, but Attack Mode is the only thing that worked. Blame the LLM gold rush and the many, many software engineers with no ethics and zero qualms about racing to find the bottom of the Internet.
- The_President 10mo agoThe whole “not a bot” prompt every three hours seems like it has potential to get out of the way more often.
- grimblee 10mo agoAlways has been
- throwaway48476 10mo agoShipping .unwrap() to prod speaks ill of their engineering culture. Quality is a process not a checkbox.
- xomiachuna 10mo agoAnd so it seems that the cause is close to RSC vulnerability from yesterday: https://www.cloudflarestatus.com/incidents/lfrm31y6sw9q https://www.cloudflarestatus.com/incidents/lfrm31y6sw9q So much for the react being just a frontend library, amirite
- rco8786 10mo agoReact server components initially came out 5ish years ago, for whatever that's worth.
- markaroo 10mo agoReact Server Components. Let that sink in. What did they do to us? This is a thing that should not exist, causing pain in the real world.
- The_President 10mo agoLike a turkey made of tofu. It’s all in the name: react.
- testemailfordg2 10mo agoLooks like this post somehow is not even on the front page of HN anymore. CF pulling some strings maybe, they don't have this incident on top of their current list.
- sega_sai 10mo agoAfter reading the post, my personal takeaway (not being expert) is that there are simply so many moving parts/configuration options that the complexity of the whole system is too high. I think without some sort of formal validation/enumeration of all possible states of the system the reliability is simply not possible. Whether this formal verification is achievable, I don't know.
- DirkH 10mo agoI feel like all the BS we were taught about architecture design principles multi-AZ, failover strategies, graceful degradation etc was gaslighting us all into thinking any of out work on it actually matters. This isn't true, but it feels like this when the entire engineering world order seems to actually run on single-point-of-failures where one CEO just messages another when some 3rd party is down. And reputational risk here is completely safeguarded because as long as everyone is down you are fine. Use a service everyone uses and it goes down = no reputational risk. Use a more robust architecture and make some mistake = massive reputational risk and everyone asks why you don't use what everyone else uses. Blind leading the blind and all that.
- lousken 10mo agoCloudflare 362