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Cloudflare took down our website after trying to force us to pay $120000 within 24h (robindev.substack.com)
submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by [email protected] to c/technology
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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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[–] [email protected] 38 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Now they're getting $0 and bad press, so no I don't think they did.

[–] HowManyNimons 6 points 7 months ago (1 children)

$0 is better than having a customer whose costs exceed their revenue; it looks like the bad press is being managed; and also fuck online casinos very much.

[–] FederatedSaint 25 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Just because you don't like online casinos, doesn't mean cloudflare didn't completely fuck this up. They could have negotiated reasonable terms to increase their revenue on this account instead of going the route of stonewalling and extortion.

So not only did they lose this customer, but this bad press will ensure a lot of others never sign up with them, potentially costing them millions in foregone sales.

Yeah this was a massive boondoggle..

[–] IsThisAnAI -2 points 7 months ago

On lemmy and substack. The damage will be minimal and forgotten.