[Edit 2023-05-21] This seems to have been fixed by Cloudflare silently at some point.

I was trying to add this site to Indieweb ring last night and found that it couldn’t validate the presence of the previous/next links, even though they were clearly in the footer of every page. I cleared the WordPress and Cloudflare caches without success.

Since Indieweb ring runs on Glitch, which is a large public service, I suspected that maybe Cloudflare was blocking their traffic. Sure enough, checking my http access logs I couldn’t find any requests from Glitch, and switching nameservers to my web host resulted in a successful check:

Indieweb ring's status checker log showing two failed checks and one successful one

This was happening even with the “Bot Fight” option set to off, “Security Level” set to “Essentially Off” and a disabled “Browser Integrity Check” option.


[side note] I love that my autogenerated site identifier for Indieweb ring is a person worried about taking pictures and writing. Accurate.

[Edit 2023-05-21] The webring doesn’t use emoji anymore 😒

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