Afrigather Nairaland, a preferred Nigerian on-line discussion board and the nation’s seventh-most-visited web site, is again up two days after it was blacklisted by Cloudflare, an American content material supply firm and Nairaland’s host. The platform is now again on-line briefly to serve its vibrant group of three million customers, Seun Osewa, the founding father of Nairaland, shared in an announcement this morning.
“So we needed to switch Nairaland to a brief host with a view to convey it again to you. A really time-consuming course of. We’re not absolutely again, although most options of the location are working. We nonetheless have an extended strategy to go. Further downtime is probably going; don’t let it alarm you,” the assertion learn.
Osewa mentioned he was working to revive the location completely. Osewa first tweeted on Monday night that Nairaland’s web site was down as a consequence of “an unscheduled upkeep operation” by Cloudflare. By Tuesday afternoon, Osewa tweeted that the Nairaland discussion board was taken down for a unique motive. He shared that Cloudflare carried out a takedown after an missed abuse report was filed two weeks in the past.
With the return of Nairaland which permits customers to create content material round a variety of matters and has helped construct communities round information, politics, leisure, and know-how, many at the moment are speculating on the potential content material moderation modifications which may await the platform because it navigates the aftermath of this incident. There have additionally been requires a revamped design of the location, which has maintained the identical design since its launch. Nevertheless, media experts and users of the website say these possible enhancements are prone to be weighed in opposition to the platform’s core identification and the sense of group.
Osewa’s earlier tweets hinted at potential updates, acknowledging the necessity for Nairaland to evolve and make some modifications to its present content material moderation practices and maybe its interface, which has remained unchanged since its launch in 2005.
Past Nairaland’s inside concerns, the episode raises broader questions concerning the energy held by web gatekeepers like Cloudflare and the potential for unintended penalties of their content material moderation efforts. Will this incident spark a wider dialogue about platform accountability and transparency within the face of such takedowns?
