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Cloudflare took down our website after trying to force us to pay $120000 within 24h (robindev.substack.com)
submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Also, interesting comment I found on HackerNews (HN):

This post was definitely demoted by HN. It stayed in the first position for less than 5 minutes and, as it quickly gathered upvotes, it jumped straight into 24th and quickly fell off the first page as it got 200 or so more points in less than an hour.

I'm 80% confident HN tried to hide this link. It's the fastest downhill I've noticed on here, and I've been lurking and commenting for longer than 10 years.

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[โ€“] [email protected] -2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Are these millions of potential customers in the room with us?

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

If they're charging $120,000 per client, it only takes 17 potential lost customers to constitute "millions." It's realistic that at least 17 companies might be put-off with the way this was handled.