Comment by philistine
12 hours ago
> The blog post is for a different audience.
No one? Like literally, I don't understand a thing of what the blog post is saying. It's vague to the point of meaning nothing. Every piece of text I've seen that explains CloudflareOS is clear except the blog post.
I sent the blog post to someone right now because it had exactly the kinds of details they care about, with the appropriate level of technical details.
I used to read their blog regularly because it had lots of interesting technical details. Lately, though, there’s less of that, and I can’t quite put my finger on what changed. My guess is that they realized how popular the blog had become and started using that attention more for advertising. There’s nothing wrong with that, but earlier the “advertisements” actually made me want to try things out and bring them back to my team. I even considered applying to work there. Not so much anymore. I’ve even removed it from my RSS feed.
I don’t like offering criticism without a solution, but I’m not really motivated to come up with one here. It looks like employees may read this, so maybe someone will see the feedback.
https://blog.cloudflare.com/three-chapters-at-cloudflare-pro...
TL;DR; jgc stopped editing the blog, and AI slop took over:
> Today, after more than 13 years at the company, I am joining Cloudflare’s board of directors and retiring from my full-time position as CTO.
> ...
> I wrote for, and edited, the Cloudflare Blog for many, many years
Nothing ever improves in the tech scene... it just decays until someone challenges it.
Funnily enough CF has redesigned its navigation several times in the past year, just like GitLab used to do. Shuffling the UI like a deck of cards is pretty desperate.
This matches my perception of a ton of recent Cloudflare blog posts. I literally have no idea who they are targeting. It almost feels like they're targeting themselves.