The impacts of anything announced in the last few days wouldn't be having any operational impact to cloudflare services now.

Internet Brands have taken a pretty standard Cloudflare control against bots and other automated attacks and turned the paranoia dial up from the standard setting to somewhere close to maximum. I assume the same control applies to other IB fora as well. The software the fora are based on is pretty useless at defending itself, the authentication mechanism is built for a different decade.

Whilst we can all debate whether they have got the right balance between defence and service continuity, noting that the best security is invisible to the end user, there probably are some hard choices at play here between keep the fora up and running or suffering the consequences of denial of service and the possibility of personal information disclosure. We also remember that we use this service for "free", and whilst IB are not a charity and they get ad revenue from our clicks, the T&C's don't make much commitment to anyone wanting to use the service....

The difficulty is that any organisation who is defending itself against attacks has an extraordinary difficult position to make meaningful public statements to it's customers without disclosing useful information to attackers or litigants. So whilst an IB staffer has made some comments upthread, it's probably hard for them to say much morethan has already been said.