If you can see this image, the forum's image proxy is working fine:

Negative, on my side.
Thing about Cloudflare, it's very cheap and therefore flimsy DDoS protection. I may sound like a broken record at this point, but DDoS-protected servers are the way to go. It's better for the attacks to be blocked at hardware level rather than relying on Cloudflare to contain everything for you. Because if the attackers already have your IP address, you're toast - and there are many commercial
toasters DDoS stresser tools that can be rented for this purpose.