Did you see the report that it was a self inflicted DDoS?
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I am copying this from third party sources and I don't know where it came from originally, @sneak has denied it in a comment to a post by @sircork HERE which he flagged into the grey.
For most of us, a Disruption of Service is a minor inconvenience. But unlike other Social Media sites, there are people for whom this is their entire livelyhood, so a 9 hour+ service interruption with no good explanation is a pretty big deal.
I do hope we see a transparent explanation of what happened at some point. But human nature being what it is, I don't expect we will get it.
Dang, that's quite a claim. If it's a lie, it deserves to be flagged for spreading FUD. If it's the truth, then sneak should explain himself.
Being a .NET stack geek that is between jobs, this is the 2nd outage I've seen in the last few weeks. It is embarrassing to get into "distributed" computing / blockchain and then see it taken down like this. It can also be tough to get the non-geek social media masses to jump here for value when it looks rather fragile.
Wish I could help more. Once I land a regular paying gig, I might look into getting into the Witness program and/or writing some utilities. Looks like I have a few ideas where that might start.
You are right. And with that taken into account, I have removed the quote from your post chain since I cannot properly source it.
But either way, I do hope we get a valid explanation at some point.
Thank you, I'm glad you did. Too many people are too quick to spread information from random sources without proof or evidence. That has to stop.
Just when I thought Steemit is changing some font style and colors that must be taking a whole day. Wow user interactions, what a useful feature! Forgive me venting here. 😊
There must be at least some decent notification that reminds us our money is safe in the box, otherwise people might regret not giving their upvotes to us hungry writers instead. Awwww.
Please, validate the information you share before spreading FUD.
I couldn't care less about sharing FUD when food is what I need. 😊
@lukestokes
The information gleaned from a discord chat stream, claimed to be quoted from an unnamed steemit dev. I should have made that more clear, perhaps, but since it was so detailed, it seemed plausible enough. I really didn't give it a whole lot of thought. It seems a lot of people are giving it a lot of thought though, and it all seems rather overblown to me.