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RE: digging into steemit.com performance issues

in #steem8 years ago (edited)

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.

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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:

  • who is steemit's "enemy"?
    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.

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