Simon Willison’s Weblog

It frustrates me when support sites for online services fail to link to the things they are talking about. Cloudflare's Find zone and account IDs page for example provides a four step process for finding my account ID that starts at the root of their dashboard, including a screenshot of where I should click.

In Cloudflare's case it's harder to link to the correct dashboard page because the URL differs for different users, but that shouldn't be a show-stopper for getting this to work. Set up dash.cloudflare.com/redirects/find-account-id and link to that!

... I just noticed they do have a mechanism like that which they use elsewhere. On the R2 authentication page they link to:

https://dash.cloudflare.com/?to=/:account/r2/api-tokens

The "find account ID" flow presumably can't do the same thing because there is no single page displaying that information - it's shown in a sidebar on the page for each of your Cloudflare domains.