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Re:Why the Internet in Sub-Saharan Africa Sucks by nsomaru on Saturday June 13, 2015 @05:46PM (#9712799)
I can confirm this; I'm in Durban, South Africa. It says something about a gateway timeout and pops the HN error page with the twitter feed.

Next time it happens, will screenshot and send to cloudflare.

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Re:Why the Internet in Sub-Saharan Africa Sucks by mappu on Sunday June 14, 2015 @01:52AM (#9713867)
Lacking any further context i'm almost certain this isn't an issue with cloudflare, instead with the upstream web server.

I saw a cloudflare gateway timeout on HN within the last hour, and the twitter feed had a recent post excusing some technical issue.

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Re:Why the Internet in Sub-Saharan Africa Sucks by akhatri_aus on Sunday June 14, 2015 @02:04AM (#9713893)
These don't have the twitter feed excusing the issue, the last tweet was a days prior when it happened last. It's as if they only affect African users, the Johannesburg PoP is also used by Kenyan users.

At first, I wondered why the HN Feed never explained the downtime. Then it made sense, it must be cloudflare.

Given that CloudFlare is everywhere & on everyone's websites, it's a pain when it behaves this way affecting users all over a continent.

Uptime websites also report the site as up.

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