Anyone else getting kicked off MN by Cloudflare outage?

[SingingOcean]

Just that - it's happening on both laptop and iphone, intermittently.

Says somewhere on the BBC website that around 20% of all global internet traffic uses some aspect or other of cloudflare.

Maybe we are becoming a bit too reliant on computers to run the world.

The original idea behind the internet was that it would have lots and lots of different ways to access it, and redundancies, so that it would always be available one way or another. And now here we are.

20% being wiped out at one go seems to me to be a poor step in the wrong direction, really. It leaves everyone a little too vulnerable to cyberattack, or just to bad faith on the part of the people who own the 20%, as far as I am concerned.

I have a friend who writes "Also I am giggling because the parent institution of" (his work) "is behind Cloudflare. They have been pushing us for years to move to their preferred cloudy provider. They were down when Microsoft fell over recently, they're down again today, and they're paying through the nose for it…" Need I say he's been one of the people pushing against Cloudflare for his place of work?

I've been shut out of Mumsnet for a while today.

So that's why I'm in Australia and it's the same here ❤️

In and out, up and down…

Yes and off other sights too

Millions of sites went down, but seems to be back up and running now.

I noticed that! I thought the internet was completely broken, although quickly realised YouTube was working, yay!

Phew, I thought I’d been band or something and need to learn to keep my trap shut 🤐