Once again, some of the biggest sites and services are down, this time because of Cloudflare. While Cloudflare suffers outages, users will struggle to access sites like Twitter, ChatGPT and Spotify.
Online gaming is also affected, with outages reported with Valorant and League of Legends. We're still waiting for many of the affected services to come back online, and until then, you likely won't be able to use them without being kicked out again.
Cloudflare is down, so you can get booted from Valorant and League of Legends
Cloudflare confirmed the outage earlier today and quickly began working on a fix. It wasn't immediately clear which sites and services were affected, but as anyone trying to use Twitter today can attest, it was clearly stuck with it, as pages often wouldn't load. Even now we run into problems there, but it's much more useful than it was.
Then there are the games that are affected. According to Down Detector – which isn't always the most reliable source, but can give us an idea of what might be affected – Valorant, League of Legends, Among Us and RuneScape were also down. Looking at social media, I don't see many people claiming that Among Us is down, so it might work for most players, but the other games are really stuck with this.
The good news is that Cloudflare believes it has already rolled out the fix; just have to wait it out now. “Some customers may still experience problems logging into or using the Cloudflare dashboard,” reads the latest update. “We are working on a solution to resolve this and continue to monitor for additional issues.”
So, the fix is (probably) out, and Cloudflare is still keeping an eye on things. Hopefully this means it will be a fairly short-lived outage – albeit one that affected some of the biggest sites on the web. We're starting to see reports of Down Detector being released, so that could indicate that more users can access these games, sites, and services as usual now.
- Released
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October 27, 2009
- ESRB
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T for Teens: Blood, Fantasy Violence, Mild Suggestive Themes, Use of Alcohol and Tobacco
- Engine
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Proprietary
- Multiplayer
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Online Multiplayer
