Hey @dadberg
I don’t think we’ve ever said that Cloudflare breaks Discourse. What does cause problems from time-to-time is their ‘performance optimizations’. Discourse is already well optimized and occasionally these tweaks can cause havoc with an installation.
You don’t need a separate subdomain providing you do the following:
- Install with the orange cloud turned off
- Create a page rule to ‘disable performance’ for the entire subdomain
- Create a page rule to cache your uploads path.