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Mubelotix @jlai.lu

3w ago

Downdetector is down

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Good thing cloudflare is only used on half of all websites, otherwise this would be a major outage! Let's keep centralizing our services though!
- Yeah everyone I know, including myself, got this message today.
  Its such a bad idea to centralize the web like this. But its anyway turning into Ai generated shit isnt it, probably will be easier to stop using it once its all AI.
  
  I have this hope, that with all the AI garbage and shit social media algorithms, that there will be some kind of rebirth, where a new type of internet will look somewhat more like it did in the late 90s and early 2000s. Maybe through tor or something similar. It will be niche again, for techies and geeks and smart funny creative people. The normies can stick to Twitter and TikTok and Netflix and whatever corporate garbage. Maybe tor and the fediverse will play roles in this rebirth. Or maybe I’m just being too optimistic.
- Got some lovely messages from my home monitoring :)
  
  You using them instead of Google for DNS?
- Yeah and what was that “security” kernel module update from Cockblock that bricked like half of the Windows systems on earth like a year ago or something? Single points of failure. Smart.
  
  Crowdstrike. I don't think that fits the "single point of failure" part.

Has it detected itself?
- No, but its at least a red colored message
- The detectives don’t detect if you logged on to the service,
  Who are ready to hear the worst about their websites disappearance,

- Dontcha think!?
  
  Yeah, I really do think
  
  It's like rain . . .

We need isdowndetectordown.com.
- Don't you mean downdetectordowndetector.com?
  
  Wouldn't it be downdowndetectordetector.com?
  
  Why use float when output is boolean?
- I was bored so...
  https://isdowndetectordown.lol/

Its actually cloudflare.
https://www.tomsguide.com/news/live/cloudfare-outage-november-2025-x-chatgpt
Blahaj zone is down too, presumably anything that routes traffic through CF.
Editing later to clarify because I noticed this comment made some implications: Obviously it wasn't just blahaj that was down, I'm sure plenty of other instances were too. I saw someone mention one of the austrailian ones as well. Blahaj was the one I noticed since I subscribe to a lot of their comms in my feed. This comment was not meant to throw shade at them for using Cloudflare.
- CF
  I did a double take; thought you said OF.
  
  Calm down, its up.

Maybe it's just your browser. We can't be sure that it's down until we check it on downdetector.
- I see what you did there.

That's like the Red Dwarf episode where Kryten says "The damage reporting machine is damaged!"
- That was Cat.
  My favourite part of that scene though is when Rimmer says "We've lost it."Huge explosion "Sorry, I was looking at the wrong panel"
  This was surprisingly the best technology premonition in the whole show. I've lost count of the number of times I've said "Sorry I was looking at the wrong screen."
  
  "Go to red alert!"
  "Are you sure Sir? That does mean changing the bulb"
  
  He meant "lost it" as in outran a pursuer? (I thought lost it as in "the thing is broken" at first).

The circle is complete

pretty smart putting that thing behind cloudflare as a single point of failure

Could it be DNS?
- https://isitdns.com/
  
  Funnily enough, that site was also down due to Cloudflare issues. lmao
- Possibly, but there was a major cloudflare outage today that probably caused it.
- I haven't seen anything specific, but Cloudflare says its "global network" is down (regional networks are fine).
  So yeah, maybe DNS like AWS.
- impossible! I checked!

I saw that too this morning. It's indicative of the state of modern computing, ie I don't understand a thing anymore.

I touched grass today.

yea it's cloudflare having weird issues. it's affected tons of websites.
- It's really too bad they have amassed this much power. It's not what the internet was meant to be.
  
  None of it is. Same with all the corporate social media shit.
  
  CloudFlare has pioneered Crap Usability As a Service (CUAAS).
- Not just websites, tons of other things use it.
- We know. But this is funny.

Cloudflare is down, yes

UptimeRobot is down too. We need an uptime monitoring tool to monitor the uptime of uptime monitoring tools.
- https://github.com/louislam/uptime-kuma :)
  
  Great idea, but who's then monitoring the uptime of the Kuma instance?

Task failed successfully, I guess.

Looks like Cloudflare has some problems, I cannot access multiple sites...

"i wonder if it's down for everyone or just me. Let me check the... uh... umm...."

Everyone who remembers the interwebs before these fancy-pants “down detectors” gets a free day. Enjoy! Have an ice cream!

Is this the event that makes the universe collapse into itself?
- Nah, just the WWW

I love how they assume if cloud flare is down that it means you have blocked it lol

A paradox

abuseipdb being down hurt like you don't know
- I didn't think about it before, but any service not handling a 500 on the db update code would be having major problems.

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