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Why was the codidact proposals down all day

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I tried to post a question on worldbuilding and after I found I wasn't able to get into the site. I kept getting redirected to page telling me that codidact proposals was unavailable and it even told me that the site itself was the issue. It was like that most of the day and I don't know if anyone else noticed or had a similar issue. If anyone knows what happened and/or why I would like to know.

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Recent outage mitigated (3 comments)
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Recent outage mitigated
Oleg Valter‭ wrote 13 days ago

In short - there was an issue with CloudFlare blocking our own traffic which resulted in the server being prevented from booting as it requests a list of Codidact communities on startup. Took a little while to let a person with access to know about it, but as soon as they knew, the issue was mitigated. Going forward, that issue will no longer prevent the server from starting

Melchizadek ‭ wrote 12 days ago

Ok good to know, yeah hopefully this isn't a regular thing cause I'm having a lot of fun on this site it's really nice

Oleg Valter‭ wrote 12 days ago · edited 12 days ago

Melchizadek ‭ yeah, shouldn't be a regular thing - we might need to investigate whether there are other places in the codebase that can cause a hard failure when blocked, but at least this one will not cause trouble anymore for sure. Glad you like being around, and apologies for the inconvenience!