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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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[–] x0x7 21 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Right. And if you depend on them for your logic with cloudflare functions you will never be able to migrate to another CDN.

Never let a vender do anything for you beyond standardized features. That's why a "selling point" if we go with this guy we can do this... never makes sense. Because if option B can't do it also you wouldn't want to do "this", and you should probably implement it in a more old-school way.

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[–] RickRussell_CA 16 points 6 months ago (1 children)

First of all, congrats! Your business must have become pretty successful. How exactly did CF decide to “ask” you to switch to Enterprise?

Maybe...

* You violated their terms of service...

I wouldn't say Cloudflare is innocent, here, but this business handled Cloudflare the cudgel that was used to beat them. They admit to doing something with their domains that was expressly prohibited in the service they were paying for.

[–] Trae 11 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Then they offered to resolve it in whatever way CF deemed appropriate and CF refused to elaborate exactly which domains were the issue.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I'd be interested to see if / how Cloudflare will respond to this. Because at this point I'm not 100 percent sure who is in the right.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Yeah I have no sympathy for a casino and as a software developer I would never work for one, but in the other corner you have a company with too much power.

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[–] catalog3115 13 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Does this mean hackernews & cloudflare are colluding together?

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[–] x4740N 13 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I wonder how this is going to go

[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 months ago (1 children)
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[–] drdabbles 10 points 6 months ago

Not a huge surprise, they've got a long history of doing all kinds of scumbag shit. Nobody should be surprised when the leopard eats their face.

[–] DarkCloud 10 points 6 months ago

Today's tech business model:

First you get the power, then you extort the money.

[–] UncleGrandPa 10 points 6 months ago

Sounds like any Cloudflare customer should reconsider their hosting setup . Mark Anderson has decided to strip the customers to increase the bottom line... And once the numbers are up but the customers are gone.... Will move on to the next company

[–] x4740N 9 points 6 months ago

Yeah pretty much all red flags from cloud flare

Can't wait for this to become a louis rossman video

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