Re:Cloudflare Pages: Best server tech since CGI-bin?
by cxr on Tuesday October 25, 2022 @09:30PM
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> The Cloudflare cloud experience is "being sold short by subpar documentation" right now because important elements of their ecosystem are being ramped up
Their docs are subpar because Cloudflare is hostile to documentation improvements and to the people who are interested in making the improvements.
I tried getting a 404 fixed once. This would have taken, you know, approximately 2 seconds with a real wiki or CMS[1]. What resulted instead was an excruciating back-and-forth that took 9 messages over a span of exactly 5 hours, resulted in no fix, and a Cloudflare dev trying to "upperhand" me, in the vein of George Constanza's pre-emptive breakup—"I'm afraid that I am gonna have to break up with you"[2].
Sure, Cloudflare team, there's nothing wrong with the delusion that a repo full of Markdown files and the busted-ass PR-based edit workflow is an acceptable substitute, just like there's nothing wrong with writing your name with a pencil that has a brick taped to it[3].
Their docs are subpar because Cloudflare is hostile to documentation improvements and to the people who are interested in making the improvements.
I tried getting a 404 fixed once. This would have taken, you know, approximately 2 seconds with a real wiki or CMS[1]. What resulted instead was an excruciating back-and-forth that took 9 messages over a span of exactly 5 hours, resulted in no fix, and a Cloudflare dev trying to "upperhand" me, in the vein of George Constanza's pre-emptive breakup—"I'm afraid that I am gonna have to break up with you"[2].
Sure, Cloudflare team, there's nothing wrong with the delusion that a repo full of Markdown files and the busted-ass PR-based edit workflow is an acceptable substitute, just like there's nothing wrong with writing your name with a pencil that has a brick taped to it[3].
1. <https://groups.google.com/g/mozilla.dev.mdc/c/BU09C48bmGU>
2. <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0aIG2EJzE4o>
3. <https://gordonbrander.com/pattern/brick-pencil/>