You’re linking to the wrong status page item, the outage was totally unrelated to that maintenance. If you look at cloudflare maintenance history, they do that exact type of maintenance all the time.

If your web service is affected by this, then you are the problem. Cloudflare has proven itself to be highly unreliable. It is a mistake to keep using it.

This is more likely the actual incident report:

A change made to how Cloudflare’s Web Application Firewall parses requests caused Cloudflare’s network to be unavailable for several minutes this morning. This was not an attack; the change was deployed by our team to help mitigate the industry-wide vulnerability disclosed this week in React Server Components. We will share more information as we have it today.

Y’all desperately looking for a reason to screech. Oh God, scheduled maintenance for an hour 🤣

Don’t deploy on Friday!

Although I’m sure there are people working at Cloudflare 24/7.

Is anything actually down though? Certainly my sites are up, but I’m in a different region.

Scheduled maintence is normal, unless there is an outage this is basically meaningless

Edit: redgifs is down, resume panicing :D

Hahaha uh oh!

They have the world’s internet by the balls, and this weakness has really become apparent lately. This one looks like it may be even worse, as the 500’s are at a higher level. Not even branded custom error pages now.