Just a quick Steem post to record what just happened...
For some unknown reasons, Cloudflare CDN went down (not for the first time) which many websites run on. This affects almost all Steem based frontends, which includes 
@steemit, 
@dtube, 
@steemconnect, 
@steempeak and others. The reason is that all of them uses their CDN (which is centralized) to run the websites, so that they load faster.
This shows how a single entity can still take down the accessibility to the Steem blockchain.
One of the only ways to access the Steem blockchain is through the 
@esteemapp desktop app created by 
@good-karma. Even though it's possible to access the Steem blockchain data this way, it feels weird as images (including avatar) does not load at all.
The solution is to eventually ditch the HTTP protocol used by the frontends, and use decentralized protocols to serve content, such as IPFS. This will reduce the reliance of a single entity to serve web content, as such protocols are P2P which work without a centralized server.
I'm happy to see that a DTube desktop app is being worked on by 
@vaultec and 
@gray00, which is currently the most popular decentralized video platform. This is a good example of how DApps should be accessed, without using the HTTP protocol which is not designed for the decentralized web. It would be good to see other Steem DApps such as 
@steemhunt work on such app so that this incident will not affect us in the future.
This was posted with @esteemapp desktop app as this is the only frontend I can use to post onto Steem at the moment 馃槈
