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> Incredibly disappointing just how many comments are making fun of the site for not handling the traffic

Why? It's a deserved, obvious observation. If you're advocating a position but then demonstrate exactly the thing that counters your position, isn't that a worthwhile point? Of course everyone is going to point it out.

An HN front page simply isn't much traffic at all. It really isn't. The fact that so many sites still fall over is simply crazy in 2026. I don't even know how it's possible this is still such an issue. A Raspberry Pi 5 can host an HNing.

The site finally loaded for me, and seriously publishing content is such a ridiculous pattern. It's actually kind of funny that the whole site is falling over because someone decided to publish an opinion in a README, instead of putting it on an infinitely more appropriate static host (which can be built from that git).

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In what way does their lack of traffic resilience demonstrate a counter to their position? Their position is not that load balancers and edge nodes are bad.

If I say I hate oversized trucks because one ran me over, my position is not countered by needing someone to deliver my couch.

> In what way does their lack of traffic resilience demonstrate a counter to their position?

When 99.999% of sites utilize Cloudflare for "traffic resilience", as a caching facade that even happens to be geolocated to clients for even more benefit, falling over on exactly that issue kind of obliterates the sales pitch. Every single reasonable person on the planet sees that.

It looks farcically silly, regardless of whatever points it makes or however much I agree with them (yes, CF centralization is bad, it's a company with a mixed history and a lot of bad, it basically has a monopoly now, etc). And yes, there are other CDNs and load balancers and solutions. But presumably someone pushing a position on this has the problem solved beforehand, no?

As to your poor analogy, it's more akin to saying that you hate trucks while trying to drag a couch seven miles from the store.

I am beginning to think you did not read anything in the posted link and just imagined what you think it's about. Your comments do not make any sense.

> As to your poor analogy, it's more akin to saying that you hate trucks while trying to drag a couch seven miles from the store.

Now that is a poor analogy. A website that functions 99.999% of the time but struggles under being frontpaged by HN is not akin to "dragging a couch seven miles from the store".

Is this performance art? Utterly bizarre that you continue to state the same insanely detached nonsense that I directly and overtly addressed.

It actually doesn't matter what the linked site says about Cloudflare, which I made abundantly clear in my root post. People use Cloudflare for a given reason, and this site failed for exactly that reason, so when the root post whines and mopes about everyone pointing out the ironic failure of the site -- desperately clutching their pearls because people aren't getting in on their holy war -- well, it falls a little flat.

It makes for a very weak message. Nothing else matters if they couldn't show some fundamental, basic level of competency at precisely the thing that Cloudflare shines at.

Now I know you're going to post another asinine waste of bits about how in the linked site he said something or other, laughably demonstrate that you're just a weird zealot. Go nuts. I'm done with you.

> It actually doesn't matter what the linked site says about Cloudflare

It does, when you said, and I quote:

> If you're advocating a position but then demonstrate exactly the thing that counters your position

To counter a position, the position matters. I don't know how to make that any more clear.

I do not even agree with the OP, your statements are just utterly deranged.

yeah i guess if you can't read and pretend they're trying to make a completely different point, then this all makes sense. i kind of expect most people on HN to be literate tho

Ah yes, I'm totally illiterate. You got me. I mean, if you didn't get everyone with the hilarious pearl clutching as you holier than thou'd everyone, the comical insults should really put it over the top.

Thanks for reminding me to flag the submission, though.

you literally keep making points that have absolutely nothing to do with what the site said, as another commenter has pointed down below. but flag away!

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