A major Cloudflare outage disrupted large parts of the global internet, knocking several popular apps and websites offline for users worldwide. The issue triggered widespread '500 Internal Server Error'
messages as Cloudflare confirmed a critical internal service failure. According to early reports, the outage impacted multiple high-traffic platforms including ChatGPT, X (Twitter), Canva, Uber, Coinbase, Shopify, Dropbox, and several gaming and transport services. Hundreds of websites experienced partial or complete downtime.Cloudflare said it faced 'service degradation' around 11:20 UTC and had to temporarily disable certain systems while rolling out a fix. Recovery is ongoing, but error rates remain high for some users.Apps and websites affected: ChatGPT, X (Twitter), Canva, Coinbase, Uber, Shopify, Dropbox, League of Legends, Grindr, Moody’s, NJ Transit, Perplexity, Discord, Quora, Spotify, downdetector and several others.While outage tracking website Downdetector seems to be working fine for now, some users say that the platform itself witnessed an outage due to the Cloudflare issue. Users say they were met with an internal server error on Cloudflare’s network while trying to access the platform.OpenAI has officially acknowledged on its website that there are current issues affecting the availability of ChatGPT and other platforms. The company is actively investigating the outage. However, OpenAI has not yet confirmed whether this service interruption is related to the recent Cloudflare outage.As a massive Cloudflare outage sweeps across the internet, disrupting major platforms like X (formerly Twitter), Canva, and Discord, users are being greeted by a cryptic and frustrating error message: “Please unblock challenges.cloudflare.com to proceed.”Cloudflare is a company behind many websites’ backend. It helps with delivering content faster, protecting against attacks, and keeping websites up during heavy usage.. In a statement, the tech giant acknowledged that services were recovering but warned users that error-rates may remain above normal for some time.
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