Very in depth review of the mess of a Matrix home server vide coded at Cloudflare... all the way to the blog announcing it. Unsurprisingly this didn't go well and they had to cover their tracks several times. The response from the Matrix foundation is a bit underwhelming, it's one thing to be welcoming, it's another to turn a blind eye to such obvious failures. This doesn't reflect well on both Cloudflare and the Matrix Foundation I'm afraid.

A bit of a shameless plug toward the end. That said the explanations of why Cloudflare is banking on Rust so much or how the recent downtime could have been avoided are spot on.

Cloudflare indeed needs to do better to accommodate RSS readers. They're not malicious bots and shouldn't be flagged as such.

This is based on fingerprinting and sometimes fail. If Web Environment Integrity gets through it'll be just worse.

This looks like a nice way to somewhat safely expose self-hosted services to the outside.