Well, it is of course a night and day comparison if we look at code from 4 years ago.

For some reason (I can't remember why), I took a look at state of Steemit code a couple of days ago to see how long it looks like it will be before it collapses under its own weight.

It turns out the only "fixes" that have been done are all to limit the functionality of the code so that their servers don't just die now.

As one example, despite having about 1/10th our transaction volume, apparently their servers began having problems serving up account histories and this was loading down the API servers and resulting in locking issues in the hived nodes that were serving up account history info.

What was the solution? Speed it up or offload the work? Nope! Instead now they only allow fetching the last 7 days worth of operations for an account :-) I guess you're supposed to go to a block explorer to see the rest...