Could Steemit be Testing Unstable Software in Production?

drakos (70) in steemit • 7 years ago (edited)

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drakos (70) · 7 years ago

Apparently we were graced by a two liner announcement (https://steemit.com/steemit/@ned/steemit-update) just 10 minutes before I posted this article. I could have posted before ned's article, but we were editing and revising ours for an hour. We put time in our posts! So for the record, there is no DDoS at the moment.

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jjb777 (56) · 7 years ago

Thanks for the info. In big companies its they sometimes do this. They roll out beta software on 5 nodes and see how it behaves.

Whats going on? Hey I recently put this into a meme challenge: ;-)

Thanks for reading.
J

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drakos (70) · 7 years ago

I like the subtle message in that meme, lol.

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joanstewart (65) · 7 years ago

Thanks for the update @drakos let's hope this gets through... still battling!

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sixersfeds (51) · 7 years ago

As more info comes up about the problems we have all been experience for going on 3 weeks now, I become less hopeful about the overall health of the platform. I've been saying in posts all day that in an arena such as crypto, where there is such a high opportunity cost to invest in anything due to the overall gains of the arena as a whole that I can no longer just leave my small investment sit in Steem Power or continue investing each week. I am in no way quitting, but after seeing this post and the other similar post from @raggaemuffin , I am more concerned than ever and hope that this is neatly sorted out with some major transperancy to clear up some acquisition's already made.

I really feel in love with this platform and it pains me to see it not handling growing pains as I thought it would and had the community to. I really hope things turn around..

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drakos (70) · 7 years ago

I share your thoughts. However, my faith in Steem remains. I've never powered down and never will (well maybe one day if I need some extra cash). It's a new way of doing things, it's bound to have bumps, that's to be expected. But what I don't appreciate is the lack of communication.

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themarkymark (78) · 7 years ago

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tonygreene113 (59) · 7 years ago

So in other words, being left in the dark about issues that could effect the health of the platform don't matter.

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lucylin (67) · 7 years ago

ditto - there is nothing to add.

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alexpmorris (65) · 7 years ago (edited)

a step forward by writing a "high performance reverse proxy" in python, that does HTTP POST requests instead of streaming websockets (requiring an additional SSL negotiation for each request, along with the additional payload overhead)...

What could possibly go wrong?!

However, some of us have already managed to get up our own "condensers", and I've even been testing it through my alpha-level C++ reverse websocket proxy. So far, votes go through in a second, and it's the only way I managed to get this comment through on my first try...! :D

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drakos (70) · 7 years ago

I've been testing condenser myself with Apache reverse proxy + a different RPC node, it's snappier than steemit.com :)

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emerge (55) · 7 years ago

Why don't you offer the software you wrote to be used instead of the slow Jussi?

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ryn (58) · 7 years ago

Suppose minor technical issues are just a part of the process when creating something like steemit but I'm sure everyone knows first impressions mean a lot and a lot of people's recent first impressions of steemit can't be very good with all that is going on...

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amberyooper (69) · 7 years ago

Well, I have no idea what is actually going on to cause these problems and glitches, but I have been seeing the results of them like everyone else.

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lexiconical (72) · 7 years ago

Excellent digging into the code.

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deanlogic (61) · 7 years ago

Well...I don't think WikiLeaks will choose STEEMit, if that's the case. ;)

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moustafa.sleiman (36) · 7 years ago

Check this out https://steemit.com/dms/@moustafa.sleiman/what-is-dms-document-management-system-features

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yehelimalul (37) · 7 years ago

Thanks so much for sharing

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tonygreene113 (59) · 7 years ago

Nothing to see here...move along sheeple.

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deadgrlsuppastar (57) · 7 years ago

I have been having upvote, resteem, post, and comment issues ALL DAY. It does seem like there is an error in the code that doesn't allow certain function or momentarily has an issue accessing any database or script calls if the load avg / traffic is high. It may not have anything to do with a DDoS attack. They may need to either up resources for users or find a different api, I don't know just my 2 cents that aren't worth much! PS I was able to upvote and resteem this after several attempts!

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fouaz (48) · 7 years ago

thnks for info

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ismailsteem (57) · 7 years ago

Very very useful

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themarkymark (78) · 7 years ago

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drakos (70) · 7 years ago

The irony.

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tonygreene113 (59) · 7 years ago

Looks like you're having a "transaction broadcast error"...or whatever the hell that means.

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randystiefer (59) · 7 years ago

Interesting article.

Also, I used the link to join the Discord for the Steemit Artist's Guild(I'm a photographer)

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drakos (70) · 7 years ago

Welcome, we'll see you there :)

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scaredycatguide (73) · 7 years ago

Either way still good to hear info discovered by you. Steemit's communication has always been lacking with the community.

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querxes (25) · 7 years ago

This was really informative, Thank you! Thanks for sharing

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princeso (57) · 7 years ago

Nice one you bring this to fore, nonetheless, you can still chip in your ideas and solution for better and clean steemit. Thanks

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karenmckersie (74) · 7 years ago

Thanks for the info ! Hope its fixed soon , still having issues Up voting / resteeming / commenting and posting ! Its very slow or does not work at all . Both my sons stopped blogging on steemit after their posts Disappeared which happened to me as well so now I have to copy my whole story and save it in Docs in case it happens again . I figured they would have fixed these issues by now !? Oh well , upped and resteemed !

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hafiz34 (67) · 7 years ago

As a new user,I am facing problem in steemit in regular basis. Taking long time to load, failure to post comment in the first instance etc. Hoping that dev team will identify the issue and solve it.

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rocking-dave (57) · 7 years ago

I think the reverse proxy you are talking about is not the reason for the website to be unstable but is probably part of the reasons that the website was still online if not reliable during the attacks.

To put it simply, I bet that implementing Jussi was part of the mitigation and prevention efforts, not something that took any part in causing the problem and/or vulnerability.

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aboutyourbiz (54) · 7 years ago

It's been pretty frustrating trying to use steemit for a while now.

I just tried to upvote a post earlier and it took a while but finally showed blue like it went through, then the blue disappeared and it looked like I hadn't upvoted. So I did it again, only for it to give me the message I'd done that already and now it was blue again.

PITA

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aboutyourbiz (54) · 7 years ago

It's been pretty frustrating trying to use steemit for a while now.

PITA

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woodywood143 (63) · 7 years ago

Thanks for the update Drakos. It could explain a lot of the issues we have been experiencing here.

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michellecarter (61) · 7 years ago

"Voodoo stuff is happening." - Ummm I had a feeling it might!

When Truth is being stored on blockchain forever, then voodoo will want to mess and stop that happening!

I agree with your comments and point of view:
"We don't seek to spread any FUD, but to understand what's happening. And once people start discussing what's going on, the users would be appeased and appreciate all the efforts that Steemit's team are putting in."

People will unite and support if those in the know were just honest and open! Secrecy causes mistrust and quite rightly so!

Thanks for sharing with us what is going on, or not going on! :)

ps I copy and paste all my replies before posting, cos they can disappear too!

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michellecarter (61) · 7 years ago

"Voodoo stuff is happening." - Ummm I had a feeling it might!

When Truth is being stored on blockchain forever, then voodoo will want to mess and stop that happening!

People will unite and support if those in the know were just honest and open! Secrecy causes mistrust and quite rightly so!

Thanks for sharing with us what is going on, or not going on! :)

ps I copy and paste all my replies before posting, cos they can disappear too!

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theleapingkoala (61) · 7 years ago

You mean they do disappear! like pooofff

;)

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michellecarter (61) · 7 years ago

I've not had that happen on to me Steemit, sounds like it did for Drakos. But yes I've had files just 'vanish' pooofff from my computer and heard from others who have had the same happen, especially my healing audios!! :)

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theleapingkoala (61) · 7 years ago

Thanks for the reply
I had that happen to me too. Internet can be scary place sometimes

Steemit is acting smooth today so cheers to that :D

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michellecarter (61) · 7 years ago

You're welcome. Wow, you too, yes strange things can happen! :)
Yes it seems smoother today, which is great news!

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mdf-365 (57) · 7 years ago

There have definitely been operational issues here on the platform fro seemingly the entire time my membership has been active. At first it was just annoying but now I believe it infecting morale. Likely others, very probably mine.

The SMT announcement is looking like it was made too early or else is some type of other deferment...

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