If a majority of the witnesses makes the switch to version 20 early it's basically like we already have forked I believe. I think that's possibly what just happened and went wrong somehow.
It would be nice if we had some communication on here. The fork does change some things so it would have been nice to know we were forking early. The witnesses seem to not bother to communicate.
I found a few witnesses discussing the drama as it unfolded in discord chat groups, but thats the only place I was able to get any inside information at all yesterday.
The only external offical place I know of is @steemit's twitter profile. There they managed to be quite late in reporting about any problems at all, and when they first did it was rather diffuse...
For an oldtimer in this space like me; a blockchain stopping for even a few seconds is a pretty big deal. Stopping for half a day is quite unforgivable. I hope they atleast have learned something about how NOT to roll out new code...
I think the worst thing was that all interfaces were down. Even if no new blocks are produced, it ought to be possible to read old content.
Its weird to me that no site has chosen to make a offchain copy of all the posts regularly in case of stuff like this happening...
Do you have any clue what's going on? I'm extremely confused. I guess we were forking early?
If a majority of the witnesses makes the switch to version 20 early it's basically like we already have forked I believe. I think that's possibly what just happened and went wrong somehow.
It would be nice if we had some communication on here. The fork does change some things so it would have been nice to know we were forking early. The witnesses seem to not bother to communicate.
I found a few witnesses discussing the drama as it unfolded in discord chat groups, but thats the only place I was able to get any inside information at all yesterday.
The only external offical place I know of is @steemit's twitter profile. There they managed to be quite late in reporting about any problems at all, and when they first did it was rather diffuse...
The site smartsteem has recently stated this damage
https://steemit.com/smartsteem/@smartsteem/important-notice-for-smartsteem-investors-and-users
Glad to see we're back online - albeit for now. It was a long wait but i'm sure everyone will be happy to be back.
Sure we are happy to be back, but how did this happen in the first place?
Good point. Likely we're seeing either hard fork 20 tests or just a little hiccup. Either way, less than 24 hours is a plus :)
For an oldtimer in this space like me; a blockchain stopping for even a few seconds is a pretty big deal. Stopping for half a day is quite unforgivable. I hope they atleast have learned something about how NOT to roll out new code...
Yeah, wow, what a day, yup.
You can say that again, crazy day O.O