RE: Do forks with fallback - my HF21 wish
It was a clusterfork and while bugs happen, this also happened because the top 20 is slightly too stale, too settled.
There are many issues in this HF and several which should already have been covered before testnet even.
It is indeed easy to bash but the process pre-testnet has been lacking. Testnet should be considered an actual release candidate and also should have specific guidances about what to test/validate.
Meanwhile biggest exchange wallets have been down for “scheduled maintenance” since last freeze.
Let’s not beat around the bush here - and this comes from someone who generally thinks Steemit Inc has the right vision: in any other company heads would roll over this release. Even more so since Velocity was in the works for more than a year. It would be whether bye Ned or bye Vanderberg.
Simple as.
Lessons need to be learned from this.
By everyone.
By Steemit Inc, by the governance, by the wider witness community, and by us voters.
Agreed, the stone throwing isn't helping and I see the witnesses as our fail-safe. But they weren't.
What about hostile code? Do we have any faith that anyone is checking?
I hope it doesn't look like I'm throwing stones. I'm trying to offer solutions to head off something like this next time.
No, I didn't think you were throwing stones.
This is an important main step. I think @sircork is right in priorities, it comes before my idea here, but the idea here is relatively cheap so I see no reason to not integrate true safety.
You brought up exchanges. Can you fathom how many folks are hurting right now because of that? While I've said before it's unwise to rely on Steem for your bread and butter, it's fair to expect some degree of consistency and witnesses should do their best to maintain that. The exchanges are just reading the writing on the wall.