Cloudflare Status Page Updates Devolve Into a Shrug Emoji
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A screenshot of the Cloudflare System Status page showing the 'Cloudflare Global Network experiencing issues' incident timeline. The page features the orange Cloudflare logo at top with Support, Log in, and Sign up navigation. The incident has a yellow warning banner. The most recent update from Nov 19, 2025 at 1:01 UTC simply reads 'Update - \_(ツ)_/¯' -- a literal shrug kaomoji used as an official status update. Below it are several serious updates from Nov 18, 2025: multiple 'We are continuing to investigate this issue' messages at 12:53, 12:37, 12:03 UTC, a partial recovery note at 12:21 saying 'services recover, but customers may continue to observe higher-than-normal error rates,' and the initial 'Investigating' post at 11:48 describing 'internal service degradation.' A second incident 'Support Portal Availability Issues' is partially visible at the bottom. The contrast between the formal corporate incident response and the shrug emoji is the comedic core
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After 14 hours of investigation, the root cause was identified: the shrug emoji was the only honest thing on the entire status page
Cloudflare's new incident response level: SEV-0 is when the status page just becomes a live stream of the SRE team's Slack channel