alt Hacker NewsJust speculating, but I don't think it's unrelated. Discord heavily utilizes Cloudflare, and Cloudflare uses Let's Encrypt for a certificate issuance. If they happened to have a certificate signing dependency in some operational rollout today, I think it could explain it. Certainly the timing is very correlated.
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cedws • yesterday at 8:19 PM
I guess we'll find out but it would be surprising if they use Let's Encrypt for their backend services. The front door is issued by Google Trust Services.
reaperducer • yesterday at 8:26 PM
Just speculating
Then why post? HN is for informed discussion, not every random thought in someone's head.
Certainly the timing is very correlated.
I had chocolate ice cream for breakfast. Certainly the timing is very corrolated [sic].
On my account they always serve Google issued certificates. There is also Let’s encrypt certificate but it is not used though. I guess that’s a fail-safe.