"Phewphoria" the feeling of relief when it wasn't your fault - @jpmonette.net via hackernews on the cloudflare outage. I'm much more here for this being word of the year over '6-7;
November 18, 2025 at 2:03 PM
"Phewphoria" the feeling of relief when it wasn't your fault - @jpmonette.net via hackernews on the cloudflare outage. I'm much more here for this being word of the year over '6-7;
![Screengrab of three comments from the linked Hacker News thread about the current/recent Cloudflare problems on 2025-11-18:
itzjacki 14 minutes ago | prev | next [–]
A colleague of mine just came bursting through my office door in a panic, thinking he brought our site down since this happened just as he made some changes to our Cloudflare config. He was pretty relieved to see this post.
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Freak_NL 11 minutes ago | parent | next [–]
Is there a word for that feeling of relief when someone else fucked up after initially thinking it was you?
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jpmonette 7 minutes ago | root | parent | next [–]
phewphoria
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November 18, 2025 at 12:18 PM
and suddenly ...
CloudFlare is down
makes a change from AWS, I guess
At least we got a new word for it - phewphoria
#cloudflare #aws #systemdown #phewphoria
CloudFlare is down
makes a change from AWS, I guess
At least we got a new word for it - phewphoria
#cloudflare #aws #systemdown #phewphoria
November 18, 2025 at 12:08 PM
and suddenly ...
CloudFlare is down
makes a change from AWS, I guess
At least we got a new word for it - phewphoria
#cloudflare #aws #systemdown #phewphoria
CloudFlare is down
makes a change from AWS, I guess
At least we got a new word for it - phewphoria
#cloudflare #aws #systemdown #phewphoria