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Kudos to the people at Discord. Just a few minutes after I got disconnected they already tweeted about the issue. Some minutes later and they have a message in their desktop app confirming it's an issue with Cloudflare. All while Cloudflare's statuspage says there are 'minor outages'.

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Every company rushes to report an outage when they can blame another vendor, well that might be hyperbolic but it's sure a lot easier!

As a percentage of total traffic, a 'minor' outage for Cloudflare probably equates to a significant outage for a non-trivial amount of the internet.

It will also be especially noticeable to end-users, because sites using Cloudflare are typically high-traffic sites, and so a 'minor' issue that affects only a handful of sites is still going to be noticed by millions of people.

"Your nines are not my nines" [0]

[0] https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2019/07/15/giant/

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