Discogs went belly up for some time today, and apparently a load of ‘socials’ were brought to their knees at the same time. Chortle; the Afterword sailed on regardless.
I hate it if Discogs is unavailable but I couldn’t help thinking that the longer Twatter was offline the better we’d all be for it.
Apparently it was all due to issues somewhere in the Cloudflare infrastructure. Me neither, and I work in IT.
Anyone else had Cloudflare related error messages during your browsing today? Be careful what you admit to accessing, of course.
I had a terrible 15 minutes when Nigella Lawson’s website was down…Armagideon
I was impressed that today’s outage had a wikipedia entry created for it while it was still going on. Lucky Wiki doesn’t use Cloudflare…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloudflare#November_2025_outage
“A spike in unusual traffic”. Try imagining Nigella saying that while caressing an aubergine…
Spike Jones caught up in an East African giraffe-jam?
Nigella would find that interesting, I’m sure.
Braintree Districts Council’s planning application search was unable to verify that I am human for a while.
Nope, nothing.
Discogs doesn’t need a Cloudfare outage to be unusable…
Very useful when you want a pic of an album cover to post somewhere.
I couldn’t get into Superdeluxeecition.com. They seem to have upped security lately as I increasingly get asked by the Cloudflare thing whether I am human. I just thought I had ceased to exist.