If you’re right, that’s still (comparatively) a lot of English to communicate very few bits of information. If I cared, I’d honestly be a bit miffed that they made me spend a minute on this shaggy-dog post/ad chimera instead of putting a single sentence in the announcements section of their front page or dashboard (which is a section that needs to exist if it doesn’t already). Like

  2023-07-25: Microcode patch for [Zenbleed](https://lock.cmpxchg8b.com/zenbleed.html) ([CVE-2023-20593](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2023-20593)) now rolling out across fleet, expected complete 2023-mm-dd, no evidence of exploitation so far.

Was that so hard? TFA doesn’t even give an estimated completion date, so that’s actually more info than the original! (If they don’t have one yet, that’s OK too of course.)

If the post actually did a better job than other sources of explaining the problem to at least some potential audience, I would’ve welcomed it, and in fact I’m probably crabby exactly because I’ve come to expect good and frank technical explanations from the Cloudflare blog (whatever I may think of their business). But this one is just meh, with a sprinkling of bleh from the forced cheer in the title.

(Sez I who has just spent 200 words’ worth of English just to complain.)