digging into steemit.com performance issues
I'm in the eastern united states, and steemit doesn't really load for me. I mean, it loads, but can't load my followers, or past posts, and I don't know if this post will make it through either. I saw somewhere that steemit.com had been being ddos'd?
Is that right?
Possiblities:
- ddos
- blockchain api unable to keep up with site demands
- Something broken on the cloud side of things
Or a combination. My money is on a combination of the first two on that list there. Well, more like: DDOS causing blockchain api unable to keep up with site demands.
So I was going to make a post with no photo, but then this happened:
My bet is still DDOS = blockchain API can't keep up with total traffic.
It's interesting, though, and it supports the idea of forking steem. More distributed social media is better distributed social media!
So, I accidentally resteemed this using busy.org, which I am not used to using.
Sorry everyone.
Cringes as I didn't mean to forward this, but let the chips fall where they may. I am not impressed with flagging for this reason either. I acknowledge he can use his stake how he wants.
Performance on the site has improved notably.
Yeah man it's honestly a rough time for steem-ing right now. Everybody is having major issues with posting and commenting, which creates a bit of a downward spiral.
There is some comfort in knowing that, in spite of these issues, we're all still here. We're all still trying. And that is because we really believe in this platform. For all its faults, I believe that we'll move past this soon.
It is an undeniably seductive and intuitive platform, and it can and should be made better.
I'm seeing the same performance issues. Lately I've been thinking about bots. I've seen a number of tutorials posted here on Steemit about how to create a bot that does one thing or another (e.g., automatic upvote based on author name), and it appears that the bots are intended to poll the server over and over with the same request (only to dump most of the data on the floor). Of course, I have no access to data showing the degree to which this might be happening. But if that is indeed the problem, we could add a feature that allows user software to register for notifications with the server. The notification might be something like "tell me when there is a new post in channel x." This type of event-driven programming would eliminate all of the pointless server requests and waste of resources.
I have read in a few posts that there are active ddos attacks on steemit. I'd love to know where people think the attacks are coming from:
Other crypto social media? (What other crypto social media? all I know of are a bunch of corpses, and a few projects yet to make a release)
Anyway, the botting is another possiblity. The steem fork that a friend and I are working on is going to try to limit the usefulness of bots on the platform for just that reason (we're also going to socially enforce by asking people that they mark down bots when they come up: lazy, but it might be effective.)
@terenceplizga are you talking about adding that feature to steemd, or elsewhere?
It's interesting, anyway. How much steem do you know under the sheets?
Lol! @sneak doesn't like your comment. That's rich...
https://steemit.com/steemit/@berniesanders/ned-don-t-you-think-it-s-time-to-fire-sneak-and-hire-a-real-cto
@sneak... Your time is Better Spent working out all of the issues that pertain to YOUR JOB!!! Not harassing users!
Why is SteemIt working so hard to ruin their own platform I wonder?
It's a legitimate question.
his wannabe highness sneak some time ago declared that he was going to downvote anyone misusing the steemit tag. Since he didn't put a comment on this flag and the steemit tag has been used, speculation would be that its now downvoting anyone who uses the tag steemit on posts about steemit.. especially if they are not glowing reports on the performance of steemit. Course, if it was spending its time doing his job instead of trying to kill the expression of legitimate concerns through flagging there wouldn't be posts with such concerns.