Turnstile

FIRST-HAND READS

What people reported, in their own words. Every line links to where it was said.

• “I like how I can slap up a free Turnstile on my projects in two minutes and not have to worry about endless comment spam and user registration spam”

  POSITIVE · ease of use · Hacker News · 2026-06-04

• “I would get locked out of the account on all devices after saying these things until I compeleted their turnstile”

  NEGATIVE · Hacker News · 2026-06-01

• “I keep getting the turnstile and having to click the "I a human" button.”

  NEGATIVE · reliability · Hacker News · 2026-05-31

• “You can enable basically all the privacy settings and still pass turnstile”

  POSITIVE · performance · Hacker News · 2026-05-31

• “CloudFlare's turnstile can't, as evidenced by several public-facing CRUD and mail routines we maintain that no longer are warding off the spam”

  NEGATIVE · performance · Hacker News · 2026-05-29

• “We had Cloudflare Turnstile installed in both the sign up form and in all credit card forms. All requests were validated by Turnstile.”

  NEGATIVE · reliability · Hacker News · 2026-04-02

• “It really bums me out how much of Turnstile boils down to these two questions: is it Linux (or similar)? is it Firefox? If yes, to one or both, you're blocked! Clearly millions of dollars of engineering talent and petabytes of data collection should be able to come up with something more nuanced than this.”

  NEGATIVE · reliability · Hacker News · 2026-03-29

• “Turnstile seems to think that traffic from a Linux phone == robot traffic”

  NEGATIVE · reliability · Hacker News · 2026-03-07

• “I don't think I've ever had an issue with Turnstile, at least not noticeably more than I had on mobile Chrome”

  LUKEWARM · performance · Hacker News · 2026-02-27

• “Turnstile has ruined a moderate portion of the Internet for me”

  NEGATIVE · Hacker News · 2026-02-27

• “Cloudflare Turnstile works for me, only thing I've found that does”

  MIXED · performance · Hacker News · 2025-10-29

• “Cloudflare Turnstile has the worst performance hit, and often requires an additional click to clear.”

  NEGATIVE · performance · Hacker News · 2025-08-22

• “the amount of time I now waste looking at Cloudflare turnstile”

  NEGATIVE · ease of use · Hacker News · 2025-07-12

• “stuck at the cloudflare cf turnstile challenge and when I do click on it and it works, it shows error occured try again. So frustating”

  NEGATIVE · reliability · Hacker News · 2025-07-11

• “With the DDoS protections, rate limit, WAF rules, and Turnstile, it feels like I can keep a significant amount of abusive traffic from reaching my host. It's a pretty compelling tradeoff for me, anyway.”

  POSITIVE · features · Hacker News · 2025-06-30