You’re linking to the wrong status page item, the outage was totally unrelated to that maintenance. If you look at cloudflare maintenance history, they do that exact type of maintenance all the time.

I don’t get it. I’m not seeing the same thing, and I can’t find any reference of anyone else reporting the same issue online either. Either this isn’t an accurate report, or it’s some very specific A/B testing. I can’t find any options in settings that mention this functionality either.

I think it’s valid to boycott Russian companies, or any companies that supports them. Justifying it to be the best search engine doesn’t necessarily make it right. And yet I still have a paid Kagi subscription, but I don’t blame people who don’t, and think their use of Yandex should be more obvious.

Agreed. I pay for Kagi, and find their search better than any other, and struggle when I’m forced to use another search engine temporarily.