In the meantime you can go to discord.com and use the web application or the mobile version. They both are not affected.
@dang can we block comments on this or delete or something?
the block is real tho. I can't login through my desktop client. Using the browser app works though. Maybe they disabled the Cloudflare CDN on their website as an emergency fix but couldn't easily do it for the desktop (i assume electron?) app?
This concentration of power in the hands of a few companies, like Cloudflare, Google, and Meta, is precisely why anti-trust laws were established. Unfortunately, there seems to be a lack of political will to enforce these laws effectively. As a result, the future landscape of the internet is likely to differ radically from what we are familiar with, and not for the better.
Just because a company is offering services enough that a plurality of users accept, doesn't warrant government interception or action.
You are incorrect.
Natural monopolies occur and get displaced by innovation all the time without any regulatory involvement.
Web browser version works just fine though.
Being lazy, but might try reinstalling discord sometime later.
What is "blocking traffic" in this context?
It seems this is causing a flood of people that aren't really accustomed to constructive discussions like the ones usually held here, as this thread is currently full of:
- "I have the same problem"
- "Someone has a fix please" followed by questionable remedies
- Some kind of Nazi troll (Not making this up, luckily gets flagged pretty quickly)
Most HN readers know what Cloudflare is, know that Cloudflare occasionally blocks legitimate users for no good reason, and know that if every Discord user is unable to access the desktop app because Cloudflare is blocking their entire userbase then the Discord on-call engineers are almost certainly having a busy day.
If you're interested in learning what Cloudflare is and how to use it, you could read https://developers.cloudflare.com/learning-paths/get-started..., or if you're interested in reading some material that's more critical you can see the previous discussion about it at https://hn.algolia.com/?q=cloudflare.
Take the thread about the upcoming Raspberry Pi 5[1]. It's very active with comments so I think its a good example.
Notice how many comments are more than a paragraph long, they give valuable information from the article combined combined with an opinion of the author, and are sometimes just so very "nerdy" they're simply awesome to read, like someone running inflation calculations about how affordable a modern Raspberry Pi is compared to past times :) [2]
[1] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37685580 [2] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37688866
In other words, this thread shouldn’t really be posted here.
