There’s no cloud services in Jellyfin. You have to set up a VPN on your server, and an account for them on the VPN, plus create a user account for them on Jellyfin. It’s not impossible, but it’s more work.
(Author here.) This is possible, but implausible. I log network traffic and haven’t noticed anything out of the ordinary. The point of the article was mostly to complain about the lack of information from Cloudflare, though. I don’t know what caused the blockade, and they’re not telling. How am I — as an end-user — supposed to do anything about the situation? I don’t even know what the situation is.
They're a powerful tool that lets you shopt off your foot and half your brains with the same bullet. However, this my router isn't compromised. MikroTik routers can easily be misconfigured to be insecure or misbehave. It's a Cisco clone, so that is the product you're buying.
I don't recommend them to anyone who doesn't enjoy and are familiar with the lower-level intricacies of network operations.
Dear John. What am I — as a normal human being/end-user — supposed to do in this situation? People can’t do anything without any information about why they’re blocked. Who do you contact? Where do you go? What to do? The challenge page doesn’t help the end user understand why this is happening to them. It’s okay if you only see it for two seconds. But the page stays on screen for over a minute. When this happens for every website — what do you do? You’d be furious if this had happen to you. I’m just trying to read my online comics and lookup some stuff about some interests and hobbies. It reduced my quality of life/sanity for a week. The last two days, I started worrying that this was going to be the new normal. I even looked into swapping ISP to get a new IP address.
PS: I love all the innovation and engineering stuff you guys regularly share on the Cloudflare blog. It’s [almost] always an interesting read. Even though I’m no fan of the massive centralization your company has caused.
It’s absolutely required for most multiplayer games. Many need random ports and some even refuse to work if UPnP is blocked even if you manually open a port for them.
(Author here.) I am. There’s plenty of accessibility labels in place. It’s literally just the name attributes. No user ever sees this, whether they’re using accessive technologies or not. It only confused bots that assumes that the field named email is for the email address.
(Author here.) That’s missing from the article. But I have logs of the network. There’s nothing out of the ordinary. “I don’t know what I did wrong,” as I started the article, means “I’ve checked logs and such and there’s no indication of anything wrong on my end.”
> That's not what Bandwidth Alliance is at all. It's about reducing or eliminating egress fees between a cloud provider and Cloudflare. Not sure where the idea that it's about sharing IP reputation data comes from.