December 5, 2025
404 Feelings Found
Is Cloudflare Down Again? Also, DownDetector/Claude.ai/LinkedIn?
Internet meltdown vibes as Cloudflare hiccups — LinkedIn, Claude, and even outage trackers wobble
TLDR: People saw LinkedIn, Claude.ai, and even DownDetector falter, with many pointing at Cloudflare hiccups. Comments swung from “RIP Cloudflare” to warnings about relying on one company, plus classic “dupe” policing—showing how one provider’s wobble can ripple through huge chunks of the internet.
The internet did a faceplant and the comment section grabbed popcorn. One user said they were just blogging on Medium when everything started glitching—then LinkedIn, Claude.ai, and even DownDetector (the site that tells you what’s down!) started sputtering. Cue the chorus blaming Cloudflare, the company that helps load a huge chunk of the web: “Cloudflare RIP,” snapped cryptotooom, while victorbjorklund sighed, “a lot of errors on a lot of pages from cf” (cf = Cloudflare). The mood? Equal parts panic and memes. B4n4n4 delivered the big warning: “went back up and then down again… let’s not put all eggs in one basket,” which is internet-speak for “maybe don’t rely on one giant traffic cop for half the web.” Meanwhile, in classic Hacker News meta-drama, Akronymus rolled in with a curt “dupe” and linked to an earlier thread, because even during an outage, someone has to moderate the vibes with another link. The strongest opinions say this is exactly why single points of failure are scary. The jokes? Lots of “DownDetector down” irony and RIP memes. The disagreements? Whether it’s fair to blame Cloudflare outright or just wait for a postmortem—but patience is not a comment section sport.
Key Points
- •The post questions whether Cloudflare is experiencing an outage.
- •The author encountered errors on Medium while writing a blog post.
- •LinkedIn was not accessible at the time of the report.
- •Downdetector was unavailable, limiting the ability to verify outages.
- •Claude.ai was also reported as down.