What did you do during the Great Cloudfare Outage?

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I learnt what the hell Cloudfare was.

I also made a chia seed and almond flour omelette.

My colleagues at work spent the morning fielding a lot of phone calls from customers wanting to place orders, and our marketing guy was in contact with our website techy types who were tearing their hair out.

I just got on with the bits of my work that doesn't use cloudflare - most of it, actually. Home now, so fingers crossed it will be all sorted out when I'm next in.

Initially I panicked that M&S had been hacked again.

Then I pulled myself together and got on with some housework.

I watched glue pour very slowly from a barrel into a tin. It was not very entertaining.

Called my best friend and planned Boxing Day lunch

eta… like called her on the actual phone.

Batch-cooked healthy soups and dinners for the next week.

Wasn’t affected by it. I think I was cleaning the kitchen.

I was at work. Didn't it only last a few hours? Why is this even worth talking about?!

Adds character.

Got the garden ready for the first frost of the year. Moved some succulents inside, picked the last chillies and tomatoes.

Same! 😃With home-made chilli sauce.

Tried and failed to join a zoom meeting.
Heard the term cloudflame for the first time. I still have no idea what it is though

Planted 20 just-purchased half-price hyacinth bulbs in the garden.

I sat in a pub, and read my book, and didn't realise it was even happening.

I am the most "on the internet" person you can imagine. I'm a bloody web developer! I spend more time looking at computer screens and my phone than I do looking at the rest of the world. And yet today I have a day off, and also had the last 100 pages of a spectacular 9 books series to finish, so secluded myself in a quiet pub with a beer and lunch, and completely missed the biggest internet outage in ages.

Book was bloody brilliant!

Cleaned the kitchen windowsill - I’ve been meaning to for at least 6 months 😂 Finally got round to bringing the bags of charity shop things down from the landing (their home of about 2 months) to by the front door, in the hope that they will annoy me enough to make me take them to the charity shop. I give it till mid December when I will start panickedly Christmas shopping and realise I have to get rid of them to make room.

I am not very productive these days, but the outage helped me use today’s energy for something other than cooking / helping DC with homework. Um, yay?!

Genuine question... How exactly did you learn what Cloudflare was during the outage?
Everything I tried to look at was unreachable so I picked up a book I started a few weeks ago and read another 50 pages or so.

The error message said it was a 500 Cloudflare error (or something) and I stuck it in Google.

Well it's made the main news channels so clearly there has been a big impact.

I was working, so didn’t realise that it happened until later.

The Independent online was updating regularly.

I had two Zoom calls and it didn't affect either of them.

And wasted time on the phone to a well-known hotel chain trying to sort out last-minute amendments to a group booking for tonight and tomorrow, as a colleague is unwell today. Conclusion: things were much better when you could contact the hotel directly. What an absolute load of bollocks the 'central number' system is...

... but as a result of that I will be taking myself to the pub for tea as I have very much earned it today.

Watched stuff on Prime, as I knew Amazon uses its own service. Interspersed that with absent-mindedly coming here and feeling disproportionately let down by MN's absence. Checked whether I've now got all the Christmas cake ingredients. As I know you're interested 😂 I can't find the glace cherries, but think they must still be in an unopened package, and the icing I bought is in tiny packs so I need more. My gold & silver sugar stars are fantastic, though, I'm thrilled I won't have to make any this year.

Fair enough. I obviously gave up on the whole thing a bit soon after trying several MN and Quora pages.
On the other hand I shall probably now finish the book, which would be a good thing.

My job

I sent a Teams message out to the team saying:

”No customer environments available at the moment, Cloudflares fucked”.

Then made a cup of tea.

Tried to go on the specsavers website which was also playing up.

Saved all my work into folders on my desktop to upload tomorrow.