On: Why Ruby on Rails still matters

[boogieup]

Not making Cloudflare more of a central point of failure for the internet? We hosted web pages before they MITM'd the entire web.

[miyuru → boogieup]

Public IPv4 address exhausted and NAT happened.

Even having IPv6 is not a proper solution because of laggy ISPs(currently reaching ~50%) and the even the ISPs who deploy, do not deploy it properly. (dynamic prefixes or inbound blocked IPv6)

Add to the mix that lot of people does not understand IPv6, internet became more centralized and will keep doing so for the foreseeable future.

[october8140 → boogieup]

I like how they have amazing great free services and people are upset so many people use it.

[adamrezich → october8140]

That's what we all said about various Google products many years ago, too.

[giantrobot → boogieup]

> We hosted web pages before they MITM'd the entire web.

We also hosted web pages before the average script kiddie could run tens of Gbps DDoS on sites for the lolz. And before ISPs used CGNAT making direct inbound connections impossible.