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This thread is currently at the top on Google searches for "Discord block", "Discord Cloudflare" and similar. It seems this is causing a flood of people that a

This thread is currently at the top on Google searches for "Discord block", "Discord Cloudflare" and similar. 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)

arab_rat 3y ago
What do the "constructive discussions" usually look like here
- danaris 3y ago
  Click on the "HackerNews" link at the top of the page, then click on any of the "XXX comments" links on the resulting list of articles (that has more than a tiny number). Read some for yourself.
- deelan_ 3y ago
  I suggest you go to the homepage and look for a post that interests you and see what people have to say about it. 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 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37685580 [2] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37688866 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37688866
- strken 3y ago
  An example of a time when Cloudflare had an outage and the usual audience discussed it would be https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31820635 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31820635. 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/ 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 https://hn.algolia.com/?q=cloudflare.
  - aetherclouds 3y ago
    Thank you! I wish I could be more active here other than lurking but I haven't got much to bring to the table.
roflyear 3y ago
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arab_rat 3y ago

What do the "constructive discussions" usually look like here

danaris 3y ago
Click on the "HackerNews" link at the top of the page, then click on any of the "XXX comments" links on the resulting list of articles (that has more than a tiny number). Read some for yourself.
deelan_ 3y ago
I suggest you go to the homepage and look for a post that interests you and see what people have to say about it. 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 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37685580 [2] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37688866 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37688866
strken 3y ago
An example of a time when Cloudflare had an outage and the usual audience discussed it would be https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31820635 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31820635. 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/ 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 https://hn.algolia.com/?q=cloudflare.
- aetherclouds 3y ago
  Thank you! I wish I could be more active here other than lurking but I haven't got much to bring to the table.

roflyear 3y ago

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