So, this morning I wrote and published what seemed like a perfectly well-crafted post which — after a few stutter steps — seemed to post.
Except… I was never able to find it.
In fact, it vanished into some kind of void for the better part of 12 hours. It wasn't until I came back to Steemit this evening that it suddenly showed up again. With a time stamp that suggested it had been "nowhere" for about five hours.
Clearly, I must not have been the only one having this problem today, as I noticed there are quite a few posts that were posted earlier today that seemed to have had absolutely no readers or comments or even votes.
Should I have been more aware of what I was doing?
When I checked in this morning — mostly to claim yesterday's rewards — I did notice that I had to refresh the pages a few times before it worked… maybe that should have been my warning.
So what's my point here?
Well, it would be awfully nice if the next round of interface design in our community might include such a thing as a ”site status” link, preferably connected to the free standing website with its own domain that people could refer to when something seems to go wrong.
For those who are into blockchain technology and decentralization I suppose the counter argument would be ”but who would be in charge of such a thing?”
I'd like to thank that our community witnesses are in reasonably frequent contact with each other presumably through a private discord or telegram server, sufficient enough that someone could post a simple status update when something has gone wrong.
To be honest, it's very unnerving when a website you go to on a daily basis suddenly ceases to work!
This was actually a conversation that would come up quite often on "old" Steemit, usually in association with "Hardforks gone wrong." Yet nothing was ever done...
Not really complaining here, just making an observation and a gentle suggestion. If we truly want the Steemit community to grow we can't really have situations that leave users sitting in the dark!
Thanks for reading and have a great remainder of your week!
How about YOU? Did you have any problems accessing Steemit, today? Would you like to see a "site status" page? Do leave a comment — share your experiences — be part of the conversation!
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Created at 20221031 23:58 PDT
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yes got the same problems, want to vote and nothing happend even after numerous freshups from the site and even the whole browser.
But was on blurt also and on some other sites I usually work with the whole day.
So might be problems with the servers from some major hubs where the data is running over ?!
But with luck the trading platforms are all working ;)
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I had a problem with STEEM today and also either yesterday or the day before that. I know it was out for about 12 hours the first time and about 6 the second time, approximately. Not sure what's going on, but I have seen others talk about having issues as well.
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As I wrote elsewhere: for us, the users, it is actually important that the basic functions work without problems. Tendentially, the developers are probably concerned with ever more beautiful, innovative, newer features, so that reliability can be neglected in the midst of all the excitement. I am not very tolerant of frustration. I don't watch this idly for long and often...
Wie ich an anderer Stelle schrieb: für uns, die Nutzer, ist eigentlich wichtig, daß die grundlegenden Funktionen störungsfrei arbeiten. Tendentiell geht es den Entwicklern wohl gerade um immer schönere, innovativere, neuere Features, so daß die Zuverlässigkeit bei all der Aufbruchsstimmung zu vernachlässigen ist. Ich bin da wenig frustrationstolerant. Oft und lange schaue ich mir das nicht tatenlos an...
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I had this problem for days. I managed to post, but it disappeared somewhere into the void. I could not log in and I kept getting error messages claiming my user name did not exist. Occasionally I got a flash of my post and saw that it was accumulating votes, but then it would disappear again. I considered that possibly I had been hacked.
Then suddenly, everything was back to normal. What happened? There is no place to get information, we were not updated on the situation, there was no way to ask for help.
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