HN hug of death?

ironic that an article presumably about avoiding use of cloudflare is apparently unable to handle spikes in traffic caused by posting it on a forum

it would probably be up, if it was using cloudflare...

GitHub version https://github.com/jiakaiBot/deCloudflare/blob/89983e1501dbb...

Looks like their site is down, but from their github bio:

" Ⓐnti-capitalist Free Software developer, trans rights are human rights, Black Lives Matter, abolish all prisons, 0xACAB "

I would love if there was some content here besides vague posting about Cloudflare bad. Like why? There truly is no thesis to convince me right now.

Also love the irony of getting an HN hug of death w/o Cloudflare

Can’t even load it.

> decloudflare

> visit website

> mission accomplished

I wish life was that simple

Why does this repo always seem to have trouble staying online? All the other mirrors are down, and it's not because of this post, because I have been watching other mirrors of this repo disappear over time that aren't even listed there, like https://notabug.org/crimeflare/cloudflare-tor and https://codeberg.org/crimeflare/cloudflare-tor.

The irony of this shit ass site loading at a glacial pace lol

Is there a good alt to cloudflare? I don’t want to feed the beast but they are substantially better / cheaper for my use case (domain registrations and tiny websites)

Incredibly disappointing just how many comments are making fun of the site for not handling the traffic, and saying that "they should have just used Cloudflare". Would Cloudflare caching the site have helped? Maybe/probably, but the user's point (visible on the github mirror https://github.com/jiakaiBot/deCloudflare/blob/89983e1501dbb...) has nothing to do with availability and everything to do with Cloudflare's position as a gatekeeper on the internet.

People who have been around for awhile should probably remember the days when every DDoS site on the internet was hosted behind Cloudflare and CF was notoriously slow about responding to abuse complaints or helping them get to the actual hosts on the other side. Or when Matthew went on a whole thing about how he had a moral obligation to provide services to literal nazis.

from en.action.md:

> Redirect or block "Cloudflare Warp" users from accessing your website. And provide a reason if you can.

come on, really? what does this achieve? only thing i can think of is trying to get the user off of WARP, but i can pretty confidently say that before doing that i'll just not use the website. or if i really care about the content i'll turn it off until i'm done and back on it goes

I mean I think it speaks loudly that a lot of sites, blogs particularly, wouldn't feel so required to use a service like cloudflare if their viewer visible contents were just statically generated rather than requiring notable amounts of resources to compute each visit.

You've made a great point.

Just not the point you were trying to make.

I closed the tab after 1 minute of failing to load a readme.md.

this is still the best article on cloudflare if anyone wants to see a similar post while the OP site recovers: http://cryto.net/~joepie91/blog/2016/07/14/cloudflare-we-hav...