Also, interesting comment I found on HackerNews (HN):

This post was definitely demoted by HN. It stayed in the first position for less than 5 minutes and, as it quickly gathered upvotes, it jumped straight into 24th and quickly fell off the first page as it got 200 or so more points in less than an hour.

I’m 80% confident HN tried to hide this link. It’s the fastest downhill I’ve noticed on here, and I’ve been lurking and commenting for longer than 10 years.

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    5 months ago

    HN thread is here and it’s on the front page 7 hours old: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40481808

    Many mentions made that a significant part of the issue seemed to be Cloudflare IP addresses getting banned in some countries. They wanted the customer to switch to a bring-your-own-IP plan.

    Also, the discussion took place over 1 month, not 24 hours.

    I think the HN thread is reasonably informative and nuanced. CF didn’t do great but it was somewhat a fog of war situation.

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      5 months ago

      Yeah this substac just reads as we abused cloudflare then were surprised they didn’t take us saying no well.