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o11c06/16/20251 replyview on HN

Hmm, "cloudfail" is already in use, and "cloudfuckyou" while descriptive is profane enough that it will cause unnecessary friction with certain people, and "clownflare" is too vague/silly (and is less applicable to other service providers).

So I propose "cloudfart" - just rude enough it can't be casually dismissed, but still tolerable in polite company. "I can't access your website (through the cloudfart |, it's just cloudfarting at me)."

Other names (not all applicable for this exact use): cloudfable, cloudunfair, cloudfalse, cloudfarce, cloudfault, cloudfear, cloudfeeble, cloudfeudalism, cloudflake, cloudfluke, cloudfreeze, cloudfuneral.


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neilv06/16/2025

Would be nice if the name punished a perpetrator's brand.

Not just sound like we're taking in stride an unavoidable fact of nature.

Want people to stop saying "ClouldFlareup" (like a social disease)? Stop causing it.