it's back today, even I'm verified on https://chatgpt.com/cyber, fortunately I can notice pretty quickly when it happens now - difference is apparent
Readit Newstardis_thad commented on Ask HN: GPT-5.3-Codex being silently routed to GPT-5.2? · Posted by u/tardis_thad
tardis_thad commented on GPT-5.3-Codex being silently routed to GPT-5.2 github.com/openai/codex/i... · Posted by u/tardis_thad
Hi, i'm on codex pro plan and it silently routes to 5.2 today, WTF? Anyone else gets similar behaviour? I was working with it since morning (UTC) and afternoon sudenly it became much slower and got very different feeling, so I started digging and enabled codex logs and got:
2026-02-12T20:41:12.751950Z TRACE codex_api::sse::responses: SSE event: {"type":"response.completed","response":{"id":"resp_0fc56e20d02a6b5701698e3ae51fac8191a5bae8fc9962662c","object":"response","created_at":1770928869,"status":"completed","background":false,"completed_at":1770928872,"error":null,"frequency_penalty":0.0,"incomplete_details":null,"instructions":"...personality.\n...","max_output_tokens":null,"max_tool_calls":null,"model":"gpt-5.2-2025-12-11","
tardis_thad commented on Small SaaS banned by Cloudflare after 4 years of being paying customer · Posted by u/tardis_thad
OP, you have garnered a lot of sympathy by the HN community which I believe in part contributed to your problem being resolved. I think it would be fair to provide more info about what the issue was in the end. It's not OK to be like "HN I had a bad experience with Company X" and then be like "k, thx @jgrahamc, bye" when your complaint gets resolved due to the attention it received.
There are so many questions this leaves unanswered:
- Was this a one-off error in Cloudflare's processes? (These things happen on a big enough scale.)
- Were you violating a specific clause of Cloudflare's T&C? How clear was the clause? What did you do to fix this?
- Was the issue that Cloudflare estimated that you're not paying enough given the bandwidth you're consuming? Did you end up signing up for the Enterprise plan?
Transparency would benefit both Cloudflare (in not making people unnecessarily apprehensive about becoming/remaining a customer) and you (in demonstrating that you're handling this issue in a professional and responsible manner).
Here's good summary of what happened https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34696763
tardis_thad commented on Small SaaS banned by Cloudflare after 4 years of being paying customer · Posted by u/tardis_thad
Cloudflare seems to be claiming that you did have a huge spike.
> Traffic from this customer went suddenly from an average of 1,500 requests per second, and a 0.5MB payload per request, to 3,000 requests per second (2x) and more than 12MB payload per request (25x)
https://www.theregister.com/2023/02/09/cloudflare_traffic_th...
I don't have a reason to not believe them in that regard, there was a spike, but it was not visible in analytics I have access to it seems.
tardis_thad commented on Small SaaS banned by Cloudflare after 4 years of being paying customer · Posted by u/tardis_thad
If anyone interested here’s what happened https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34696763
I was not aware about the spike in bandwidth, will also try to handle such cases on my side better.
tardis_thad commented on How Cloudflare erroneously throttled a customer’s web traffic blog.cloudflare.com/how-c... · Posted by u/jgrahamc
As a customer that was affected by this incident, I’m really happy as it was handled by Cloudflare in the end - transparent and with clear communication how it will be improved in the future. Thanks again @jgrahamc for all initial help so it was sorted out quickly.
This is related to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34639212
tardis_thad commented on Small SaaS banned by Cloudflare after 4 years of being paying customer · Posted by u/tardis_thad
I disagree. The other one was a clear case of someone knowingly breaking the TOS (same non-HTML content but in that case they were hosting a service which almost exclusively returns non-HTML content). The OP even admitted in the comments that they knew very well they were breaking the TOS but wanted some notice.
I don’t really feel any sympathy for that poster. They knowingly broke the rules, they had to have known that CF could come and shut them down at any time, and they still went ahead and threw the pity party knowing that they are pretty much entirely in the wrong. It’s very much a “play dumb games, win dumb prizes”.
Would it be nice for CF to give a heads up? Sure. But I don’t think it’s required, and especially not in an egregious case like that one.
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34642984 I wasn't breaking the ToS at least not 2.8 (non html content) - my point was that I can understand I'm heavy user of the Workers and built-in pricing may not be economically feasible for CF to serve me hence push to Enterprise plan - I get it, just wish it was communicated to me clearly and beforehand my site went down.
tardis_thad commented on Small SaaS banned by Cloudflare after 4 years of being paying customer · Posted by u/tardis_thad
> Small SaaS
> 4 billions requests & 1PB of data per month
Pick one!
Small in a sense it's only me running it and relatively low customers number (~400). So in that sense small applies?