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With 26 million users, five nines is not very reassuring.

Yet, most users are content with GitHub being the sole owner of their issues, pull requests, code review, wiki...

Yes, that's the only reason anyone has voluntarily used JavaScript.

> The thing is, SQLite is bulletproof at this point, so do we need to replace it?

Nothing written in C is bulletproof.

It makes it easier to collectively fire workers.

Doesn't a union make that easier? That's the point of unions.

Yes, it's just that those laws are no longer enforced.

> [0]: Cloudflare provides SSL certificates to millions of web sites (even ones that don't pay us)

No, you don't. You proxy their traffic and encrypt it on the way out, undermining the security of the Web by creating a single point of failure that you've proven unable to defend.

They can improve compared to their past performance, but they are strictly an incredibly negative influence on the Internet.

Before using a Cloudflare product, please consider if you want to contribute to the Internet's largest man-in-the-middle attack. They have a poor track record when it comes to security[0], privacy[1], and censorship[2]. We're at the point where it's our responsibility to protect the Internet and keep these companies in check. Cloudflare is among the worst existential threats to the Internet.

[0]: https://gizmodo.com/everything-you-need-to-know-about-cloudb...

[1]: https://blog.torproject.org/trouble-cloudflare

[2]: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/13/opinion/cloudflare-daily-...

TunnelBear never had good security. It's Canadian HideMyAss. Well, it was.

To be frank, you should feel like an idiot. This was entirely foreseeable and people have been warning you not only about Slack, but about proprietary software and vendor lock-in for _literally decades_. Try not to make this mistake again. Advocate for free and open source.