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Yeah, your blog is inaccessible. Both on iCloud Private Relay and bare IP, Safari and Brave.

> There are several actions that could trigger this block including submitting a certain word or phrase, a SQL command or malformed data.

If my blog got DoS'd from HN was remotely close to any of these, would be perfectly normal but as it stands this is exactly why gatekeepers are perhaps inevitable, but should never be reveled.

I don’t think you understand what’s going on here. They misconfigured their CF and made it impossible for actual users to access their website. That boilerplate text means nothing. I submitted no words, no SQL, and no malformed data, merely a simple access request across multiple browsers.

If this amount of traffic across a small handful of users was enough to trigger a DoS, we should be getting proof-of-work captchas, not “you have been blocked” pages.

Can confirm, I run my own stats on my own blog (no CF) and it's decidedly not easy to get dangerous amounts of traffic from HN.

The site does work, including on Firefox for Android, for me in Denmark.

Perhaps there's an unreasonable geoblock configured.

Perhaps. I replied saying it worked for me on iOS from Australia. An aggressive US geoblock?

Blocked for me in Sweden though, seems unlikely they'd have one nordic but not another.

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