Hello everyone,
I’ll admit I haven’t really been active lately, not just on FP but also across my own sites. The reason I’m bringing this up is because I logged back into BaysideGamers.com recently and honestly noticed how bad things had become. The site wasn’t remembering logins properly, themes kept resetting, pages felt slow, and parts of the site just weren’t loading the way they should.
I was aware something wasn’t right for a while, but I never really looked into it properly as I just assumed it was general caching issues and left it alone. After finally sitting down and digging into it properly, I realised a lot of the problems were actually coming from Cloudflare and the updates they’ve rolled out over time. What I ended up dealing with was Cloudflare caching things it absolutely shouldn’t have been. Sessions were getting cached, cookies weren’t behaving correctly, and IPB v4 relies heavily on dynamic content which Cloudflare was now treating far more aggressively than before. Because of that, the site couldn’t remember users, themes wouldn’t stick, and performance actually felt worse instead of better.
The frustrating part was that everything used to work fine. Nothing major had changed on my end, but Cloudflare’s newer caching, security and optimisation changes meant older setups just stopped behaving properly. I had to go through cache rules, bypass settings, cookies, and page exclusions one by one just to get basic functionality working again.
So most of my recent time has been spent fixing issues caused by changes outside of the site itself rather than anything IPB had done. It’s a good reminder that even if your platform hasn’t changed, services sitting in front of it definitely can, and when they do, they can quietly break things without you realising straight away.
Hopefully things are sorted now, has anyone else had to deal with this with Cloudflare recently?
I’ll admit I haven’t really been active lately, not just on FP but also across my own sites. The reason I’m bringing this up is because I logged back into BaysideGamers.com recently and honestly noticed how bad things had become. The site wasn’t remembering logins properly, themes kept resetting, pages felt slow, and parts of the site just weren’t loading the way they should.
I was aware something wasn’t right for a while, but I never really looked into it properly as I just assumed it was general caching issues and left it alone. After finally sitting down and digging into it properly, I realised a lot of the problems were actually coming from Cloudflare and the updates they’ve rolled out over time. What I ended up dealing with was Cloudflare caching things it absolutely shouldn’t have been. Sessions were getting cached, cookies weren’t behaving correctly, and IPB v4 relies heavily on dynamic content which Cloudflare was now treating far more aggressively than before. Because of that, the site couldn’t remember users, themes wouldn’t stick, and performance actually felt worse instead of better.
The frustrating part was that everything used to work fine. Nothing major had changed on my end, but Cloudflare’s newer caching, security and optimisation changes meant older setups just stopped behaving properly. I had to go through cache rules, bypass settings, cookies, and page exclusions one by one just to get basic functionality working again.
So most of my recent time has been spent fixing issues caused by changes outside of the site itself rather than anything IPB had done. It’s a good reminder that even if your platform hasn’t changed, services sitting in front of it definitely can, and when they do, they can quietly break things without you realising straight away.
Hopefully things are sorted now, has anyone else had to deal with this with Cloudflare recently?
