Cloudflare is down, causing outages at X, OpenAI, and even taking some multiplayer games offline
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Another multi-platform outage strikes, as Cloudflare suffers issues and triggers downtime on popular websites like X (formerly Twitter), as confirmed by the official Cloudflare Status page. The root of the cause hasn’t been revealed, though “scheduled maintenance in SCL (Santiago) datacenter” was planned for this time of the day.
Cloudflare is aware of, and investigating an issue which potentially impacts multiple customers. Further detail will be provided as more information becomes available.
Cloudflare, 6:48 AM ET
If you’re struggling to load posts on X, create work on Canva, or play a few games of LoL or Valorant, then this is likely why. Generic messages like “Please unblock challenges.cloudflare.com to proceed” appear on several websites, including OpenAI, which blocks access to ChatGPT.
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If you see this message, don’t fret; you haven’t actually done anything wrong. Rather, the security systems Cloudflare provides aren’t working, though the websites they’re supposed to protect remain live in the background.
Our own team is experiencing issues with PayPal and Uber (specifically, Uber Eats), though it doesn’t appear to be as widespread as other platforms. The apps and websites themselves load, but payments and orders are intermittently affected.
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