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I'm assuming it means that the return from some requests for info from the nodes (Like who you follow) can take a little longer to be reliable than it used to be (6 seconds instead of 3 seconds). The block-times for block-creation are still the same.

Thanks, man :) Let me see how much time takes to follow you.

That's basically right. The core challenge, I think, is something called microforks. Basically there are ways for people to create very brief forks of the blockchain. The witnesses have mechanisms for resolving these forks, but Hive does not. So it is possible for devs to use Hive with a 0-second lag, but then there is a chance it will briefly display microfork data and not consensus data. This would still quickly be resolved by Hive. The default setting of a 6 second lag ensures that the vast majority of microfork scenarios are resolved before information is displayed. It bears repeating that none of this has to do with economic information which is still queried directly from the blockchain. Developers can set the time lag to as long as 5 minutes if they want to ensure that all the information they are displaying is perfectly accurate.

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