A Cloudflare outage is destroying parts of the Internet

Cloudflare confirmed the issue, posting it at 11:48 am GMT;

“Cloudflare is aware of and investigating an issue affecting multiple customers: widespread 500 errors, Cloudflare dashboard and API crashes as well.

“We are working to understand the full impact and mitigate this issue. More updates will be coming soon.”

Firstly, the issue appears to have affected several major websites, including X, formerly known as Twitter, movie review site Letterboxd, and even outage tracking website DownDetector, making tracking down the issue quite complicated for us…