The Reports from the Witnesses aims to provide the community with a summary of what all the witnesses have been up to. Every week, I collect all of the reports from the individual witnesses and assemble them into a single aggregated report. New witness announcements and witness retirement announcements are included in the report as well.

Witnesses can continue posting their posts to the witness-category and/or witness-update tags, and I will assemble everything I find there. If I miss any reports, just let me know and I will correct it. If you want to direct message me a report via chat, that is fine too.

Historic Reports from the Witnesses can be found here:
https://steemit.com/created/reportsfromthewitnesses

So without further ado, I bring you the eighteenth edition of 'Reports from the Witnesses'!

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Reports from the Witnesses 2017-03-19

@abit - Witness Position #10

• Steem 0.17.0 released but I won't upgrade as is

@bhuz - Witness Position #13

• My Take On HardFork 17

@pharesim - Witness Position #18

• Rejecting HF17, and a few thoughts
• Back on track

@klye - Witness Position #19

• Finally Settled Back Home & Have My Main Witness Server Running 0.16.3
• Rolling Back My Main & Backup Witness Servers to v0.16.x & Thanks to @abit for Being AWESOME.

@good-karma - Witness Position #23

• good-karma witness update - 19th March, 2017

@anyx - Witness Position #24

• My opinion on the upcoming v17 hardfork.

@someguy123 - Witness Position #27

• (manual report) Updated Steem-in-a-box for HF17

@delegate.lafona - Witness Position #31

• My thoughts on hardfork v17

@timcliff - Witness Position #33

• TimCliff Witness Update 2017-03-18

@chitty - Witness Position #37

• Witness Update: I will be upgrading to 0.17.0

@fyrst-witness - Witness Position #40

• (manual report) Updated to 0.17, and created a post: The Truth about the STEEM Witnesses and what we do!

@l0k1 - Witness Position #69

• Moar Witness Scripts: Websocket Log Monitor and Witness Failover Toggle (and stealth witness update)

Witness Retirement Announcements:

@dragosroua

• I Didn't Sign Up For This - Shutting Down My Witness And Seed Nodes

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Some Notes:

• Many witnesses do not report every week, and prefer to only report when they have updates.
• I recommend that you include communication as one of your criteria for evaluating witnesses, but keep in mind - it is not the only criteria. There are some witnesses that prefer to work "behind the scenes", and do not do much as far as reports.
• For witnesses that are not currently posting any reports, I would encourage you to provide the community with at least some insight into what you are currently working on :)

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