Some good points, it's a growing platform and as I see it a massive combination of challenges face steemit - more users take up more bandwidth and slow the system down. And it's an obvious target for the nefarious who like to show off their skills by hitting targets. I'm not sure how much the founders can do to resolve it short term - or what to say other then "we know there are issues and are working on them" To be perfectly fair it cost me nothing to join this site, in ways I don't understand it seems to be able to give me something back while still costing me nothing - so occasional outages and posting issues - while annoying - do I have a right to complain?