Popular websites experience disruptions as Cloudflare faces widespread outage
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- Cloudflare experiences a major outage, affecting multiple popular websites and platforms.
- Services impacted include X, Canva, League of Legends, and Valorant.
- Users encounter error messages, though underlying websites remain online.
Another widespread internet outage occurred on Tuesday morning as Cloudflare faced technical issues, causing disruptions across multiple high-profile websites.
Popular platforms such as X, Canva, and video games, including League of Legends and Valorant, reported downtime, with users noting problems through monitoring sites like Downdetector.
The incident began around 2:00 PM Jordan Time, when Cloudflare’s support portal provider started experiencing issues. Even Cloudflare’s own status page showed signs of malfunction, losing its CSS styling and reflecting the broader technical difficulties.
By 3:03 PM, Cloudflare confirmed that its teams were “continuing to investigate this issue”, noting that the outage could potentially impact multiple customers. The company promised to provide further details as the situation develops.
Affected users saw error messages such as “Please unblock challenges.cloudflare.com to proceed”, which appeared on several websites, including OpenAI, temporarily blocking access to services like ChatGPT.
Cloudflare reassured users that these errors do not indicate any personal wrongdoing; the websites themselves remain operational in the background while the security systems experience disruption.
