O-kay, I'm not much of a tech type anymore, a node update would indicate it is being done on one of their computers, (as I have seen people talking about updating their computer nodes). An update is generally something that is planed. or so it seems in most cases. So poor planing, poor communications, they could have left a simple we are planing this, and hope nothing goes wrong, post. I guess I am just irritated at the apparent lack of concern for their customer base. I do get and understand that they are busy were busy with promoting their game and such at steemfest. It was a good advertising thing to do.

I do not know how big of a team they have, but to be honest I think they need to get a post out as soon as possible with a quick little update about the current issues. This incident was a serious failing of public relations. Steemit is bad enough toward new users and the limitations they have put on them, to have this also occur and no company information of what is happening is not a good thing. @rentmoney has pointed out it is still in beta, well yes it is, but does that excuse a company, that up until this point, kept their users and future customers up to date and current with plans and what was coming?