Just 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 11 hours ago | parent | next [-]

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.

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winstonwinston 11 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

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.

	▲	nijave 10 hours ago \| parent [-]
		In Cloudflare Enterprise you can pick either or leave it on auto. Iirc there's a 3rd option but I don't know if it's still supported (Terraform and SDKs used to have it in the enum) https://developers.cloudflare.com/ssl/reference/certificate-...

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everfrustrated 7 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Cloudflare doesn't issue let's encrypt certs

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reaperducer 11 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

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].