Steemit.com Followers / Following Count Discrepancy

in #bug-hunting • 6 years ago (edited)

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Project Information

  • Repository:

https://github.com/steemit/condenser

  • Project Name: Condenser

  • Publisher (if applicable): Steemit.com

Expected behavior

Noticed a jump in followers and, after investigating, determined the counts displayed on Steemit.com are different than what may be obtained via the RPC API or other front end interfaces. This has been confirmed on a couple users including myself.

Actual behavior

Expectation is for follower / following count to generally coincide across the various blockchain interfaces.

How to reproduce

Navigate to your profile page on https://steemit.com/@username and compare to another interface. See GIF.

  • Browser/App version: Microsoft Edge / Google Chrome

  • Operating system: Windows 10

Recording Of The Bug

follow3.gif

GitHub Account

https://github.com/anthonyadavisii

Update: @pjau has submitted GH issue for the following. See below.

https://github.com/steemit/condenser/issues/3135

I have checked the following nodes and counts are normal.

'https://api.steemit.com'
'https://steemd-appbase.steemit.com'
'wss://steemd-appbase.steemit.com'

Update #2: @pjau figured the nodes that steemit.com is using https://api-int.steemit.com so I checked with Beem producing the following error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/home/sfr/miniconda3/lib/python3.6/site-packages/beem/account.py", line 777, in get_followers
    name_list = [x['follower'] for x in self._get_followers(direction="follower", limit=limit)]
  File "/home/sfr/miniconda3/lib/python3.6/site-packages/beem/account.py", line 823, in _get_followers
    followers = self.steem.rpc.get_followers(query, api='follow')['followers']
TypeError: list indices must be integers or slices, not str
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     6 years ago 

    You are right. Maybe https://api-int.steemit.com is using hivemind as database for followers.

    from beem import Steem
from beem.account import Account
stm = Steem(node="https://api.steemit.com")
acc = Account("anthonyadavisii", steem_instance=stm)
acc.get_follow_count()
{'account': 'anthonyadavisii', 'follower_count': 3616, 'following_count': 2380}

stm = Steem(node="https://api-int.steemit.com")
acc = Account("anthonyadavisii", steem_instance=stm)
acc.get_follow_count()
{'account': 'anthonyadavisii', 'follower_count': 4274, 'following_count': 3153}
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     6 years ago 

    There is something wrong....

    Steemit says...

    While Steemworld says..

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     6 years ago 

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       6 years ago 

      There have been a few bugs recently. The follower bug has been ongoing for most of the last week through safari when you are not logged in. I assume what is happening is that as they transfer this to the new storage as they said they were going to in an effort to cut back on their costs, it is reviving the lost followers that has been a known issue since I joined in February.

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         6 years ago 

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             6 years ago 

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