<story><title>Cloudflare Calls</title><url>https://blog.cloudflare.com/announcing-cloudflare-calls/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rixthefox</author><text>They really do want to be the center of everything it seems. I wish they would stop trying to be the Cisco of Networking in the sense of trying to convince a lot of people to let them handle critical network functions for a ton of networks.&lt;p&gt;All it will take is one major outage for everyone to see this is a bad idea.&lt;p&gt;Why trust a cloud provider who could go down and take half the Internet with it? Why centralize it that much where that is even possible?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>seeekr</author><text>They just keep building on top of the things they&amp;#x27;ve already built that are working really well, expanding into related services. Doesn&amp;#x27;t seem that different from what AWS is doing, just with a different focus and in a different place in everyone&amp;#x27;s (or the Internet&amp;#x27;s) stack.</text></comment>
<story><title>Cloudflare Calls</title><url>https://blog.cloudflare.com/announcing-cloudflare-calls/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rixthefox</author><text>They really do want to be the center of everything it seems. I wish they would stop trying to be the Cisco of Networking in the sense of trying to convince a lot of people to let them handle critical network functions for a ton of networks.&lt;p&gt;All it will take is one major outage for everyone to see this is a bad idea.&lt;p&gt;Why trust a cloud provider who could go down and take half the Internet with it? Why centralize it that much where that is even possible?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nine_k</author><text>It reminds me the days of Google flourishing in early 2000s: they added more and more wonderful stuff (such as mail, or maps) while improving their flagship offering, search, more and more. A lot of people were their sincere fans.</text></comment>