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RE: Are the problems with the site steemit.com an opportunity?
steemstage.com looks like a replica of steemit.com and is a site I used recently after struggling with busy.org, which takes a bit of getting used to (although it does have some of its own cool features).
You can run a local clone of steemit.com it is called condenser and it is found on git hub.
https://github.com/steemit/condenser
Anyone with little knowledge of web servers can provide a clone of steemit, the problem is that since is free available code it can also be modified for malicious intent.
That is were TRUST enters the equation, if a known and respected witnesses make a collective effort to provide backup infrastructure for the user side of the block chian we remove the single point of failure and the community benefits from it.
The spirit of steemit is to make money by sharing and that can apply to all levels and activities, no only to blogging and curation.
This is a whole ecosystem and a mini-society, see for example @sircork's iniciative https://steemit.com/youarehope/@youarehope/youarehope-is-recognizing-world-food-day-with-an-earnest-call-for-your-help-to-aid-our-fellow-humans-in-need-in-africa-the-philippines-and-venezuela
He is taking the block chain out to reality, you make effort with your limited means to provide user engagement and retention...
We can wait until someone with the money and the resources provides a solution for our problems or we can proactively join efforts to solve them ourselves.
that i think is the biggest lesson this block chain can teach us and those who understand that are in the path to become better humans.
PS: When you log in a steemit clone, use the private posting key (actually do it even in steemit.com) avoid using your active key in clones.
If steemit.com is down use busy (they have built trust) and avoid wallet operations during the site blackouts if possible.
Thank-you for that very informative reply. I was about to use steemstage.com to access my wallet and buy Steem from the internal exchange, but then decided I didn't know anything about that site, so did not continue the process and instead went back to steemit.com and struggled until it finally completed my transaction. One can never be too careful when it comes to money.