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0 pointsneilv9mo ago0 comments

This needs to be a catchy name, but I don't have a good one. CloudFlaritis? CloudFlareup? (CloudFlareDown?)

Regardless of whether Cloudflare is the particular infra company, the company who uses them responds to blocked people: "We don't know why some users can't access our Web site, and we don't even know the percentage of users who get blocked, but we're just cargo-culting our jobs here, so sux2bu."

The outsourced infra company's response is: "We're running a business here, and our current solution works well enough for that purpose, so sux2bu."

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o11c9mo ago

Hmm, "cloudfail" is already in use, and "cloudfuckyou" while descriptive is profane enough that it will cause unnecessary friction with certain people, and "clownflare" is too vague/silly (and is less applicable to other service providers).

So I propose "cloudfart" - just rude enough it can't be casually dismissed, but still tolerable in polite company. "I can't access your website (through the cloudfart |, it's just cloudfarting at me)."

Other names (not all applicable for this exact use): cloudfable, cloudunfair, cloudfalse, cloudfarce, cloudfault, cloudfear, cloudfeeble, cloudfeudalism, cloudflake, cloudfluke, cloudfreeze, cloudfuneral.

neilvOP9mo ago

Would be nice if the name punished a perpetrator's brand.

Not just sound like we're taking in stride an unavoidable fact of nature.

Want people to stop saying "ClouldFlareup" (like a social disease)? Stop causing it.

tmtvl9mo ago

I'd say Clownflare, but that sits too close to Clown Care, who do really great work.

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