Flutura Kusari and Adriatik Kelmendi Blame Kurti for a Global Cloudflare Meltdown
The world saw a Cloudflare crash, but Flutura Kusari and Adriatik Kelmendi insisted Kosovo’s government caused it, turning a global fault into partisan fiction.
I was in London when the internet fell over1. Not all of it, just enough to remind us how little of it we actually see. X would not load. Others2 threw up a politely panicked error page about an “internal server error on Cloudflare’s network” and suggested, with the optimism of a bad therapist, that I “try again in a few minutes”. Letterboxd stuttered. Down Detector, the site that exists to tell us when everything is broken, was itself broken. For a few hours, the web looked like a half-finished skeleton lit by faulty wiring.
In the background, the Cloudflare status page muttered in corporate Esperanto. “Cloudflare is aware of, and investigating an issue which potentially impacts multiple customers.” A “fix” was “implemented”. Services were “recovering”. Somewhere, a team of exhausted engineers tried to keep thirty per cent of the Fortune 100 from screaming at their account managers. It was a simple story, technically. One company, sitting quietly between users and services, had malfunct…
