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You're not the only one getting blocked. I emailed dreamwidth about this in the past and they say it's something their upstream network host does and they cannot even fix it if their site users wanted to fix it. They're a somewhat limited and broken host partially repackaging some other company's services.

    >Dreamwidth Studios Support: I'm sorry about the frustrations you're having. The "semi-randomly selected to solve a CAPTCHA" interstitial with a visual CAPTCHA is coming from our hosting provider, not from us: ... and we don't have any control over whether or not someone from a particular network is shown a CAPTCHA or not because we aren't the ones who control the restriction.

This also applies to the 403's.

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This needs to be a catchy name, but I don't have a good one. CloudFlaritis? CloudFlareup? (CloudFlareDown?)

Regardless of whether Cloudflare is the particular infra company, the company who uses them responds to blocked people: "We don't know why some users can't access our Web site, and we don't even know the percentage of users who get blocked, but we're just cargo-culting our jobs here, so sux2bu."

The outsourced infra company's response is: "We're running a business here, and our current solution works well enough for that purpose, so sux2bu."

Hmm, "cloudfail" is already in use, and "cloudfuckyou" while descriptive is profane enough that it will cause unnecessary friction with certain people, and "clownflare" is too vague/silly (and is less applicable to other service providers).

So I propose "cloudfart" - just rude enough it can't be casually dismissed, but still tolerable in polite company. "I can't access your website (through the cloudfart |, it's just cloudfarting at me)."

Other names (not all applicable for this exact use): cloudfable, cloudunfair, cloudfalse, cloudfarce, cloudfault, cloudfear, cloudfeeble, cloudfeudalism, cloudflake, cloudfluke, cloudfreeze, cloudfuneral.

Would be nice if the name punished a perpetrator's brand.

Not just sound like we're taking in stride an unavoidable fact of nature.

Want people to stop saying "ClouldFlareup" (like a social disease)? Stop causing it.

I'd say Clownflare, but that sits too close to Clown Care, who do really great work.

It works just using a VPN and picking a US server. The internet is becoming one giant reverse firewall.

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