It's A Hard Fork Life For Us - It's been a forking experience!

in #steemit6 years ago

Hey SteemInmates

So Steemit had to be placed in solitary confinement for a few hours and a small portion of the internet was up in arms because nobody puts Steemit in the corner am I right? I guess we're back up and running but yeah still a bit buggy from what I can tell but ey bloggers got a blog bro!

My first time getting forked over

I haven't been using the site that long so this was my first hard fork experience and boy did it stir up some comedic gold.

I decided to check out Twitter and Discord and some of the questions and responses are freaking hilarious, people really tend to trip out when their free internet money is at risk.

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The Hardest Forking Memes

In a bid not to shame anyone, I've taken my favourite questions and responses I read and contextualised them in memes so everyone can enjoy them. If this was your reaction, its ok we still love you!

It got to everyone eventually

As the hours went by some Steemians started to get hella frustrated lol

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Pretend to know what's going on

This was actually my favourite reaction when people would ask why the site is down and a user would respond. Oh its HF20 and their response would be "Oh, ok cool thanks" - Dude you know damn well you don't know what that means

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Daily content creators were like

Its already in my drafts on busy or eSteem I just need to publish it, can this site just start working already, I have Yoga at 4 pm

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It was a rollercoaster of emotion

Steemians we like I reloaded the site its up again, or wait, no its down. Is it up for you? Its down for me and vice versa like the entire day

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Can I get a witness?

Thanks to everyone who rolled up their sleeves and got to work while the rest of us watched YouTube

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If you have any good hard fork memes share them with me in the comments lol

Allow me to indulge you in a little sing-along

While sitting around the campfire waiting for the site to get back up I thought we could all gather around in sing-song. Please learn the lyrics off by heart, thank you and it goes a little something like this. DJ drop a sick beat for me one time!

Chorus

It's the hard fork life (uh-huh) for us
It's the hard fork life, for us!
Steada upvotes, we get tricked
Steada payouts, we get kicked
It's the hard fork life!

Verse

I don't know how to be, no website loading for me, God only knows
Gotta try Partiko, eSteem or Busy - see how it goes
Downtime and 400 errors are all that I see; you ask me the websites name?
S, to the Teezo, E to the Mizzo, I to the Tizzo

("It's a hard knock life!")

Responses going crazy on discord and Twitter, what's with that?
Noobs looking for answers stat! but Y'all knew that!

Didn't you read the hard fork blog post?
Yes for the next few hours Steemit is toast

Yes the update ran a little late,
You will have to wait
Some of the questions online about it are so cringe
Relax and enjoy a Netflix binge

Chorus

It's the hard fork life (uh-huh) for us
It's the hard fork life, for us!
Steada upvotes, we get tricked
Steada payouts, we get kicked
It's the hard fork life!

Have at it

How was your hard fork experience? Was this your first? Did you even notice the site was down? Share it with me in the comments below, make me laugh if you can!

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It's Not Whether You Get Knocked Down, It's Whether You Get Up

Haha this is hilarious! I wasn’t checking any chats or anything so I didn’t get to see all of the reactions, so thanks for sharing this! 😂

It was like that mini heart attack when you're checking for your phone and don't find it right away but ten times worse lol It really was a masterclass in crazy and panic, this is why I love crypto!

It’s pretty fun! I have only been in this space a little over a year yet I am already very accustomed to the rollercoaster so it doesn’t cause panic that easily anymore. I can just sit back and enjoy the show!

I was confused for a while, the Steemit folks need to alert the site when accessed via mobile this type of information. I was trying to load it and it just wouldn't load. Then I decided to hop on discord and look at some posts I had been ignoring and of course the Busy site which had the post I was reading informed me that Steemit was down due to HF20. Gotta love communication! An amusing thought that the main website wouldn't tell me it was down but one of the side project sites did.

I did see a blog post about the HF20 and I skimmed over it but didn't really take note lol! You know a maintenance page isn't much to ask for though they? Like not just this robot man with a link to the homepage that doesn't work! But yeah we've moved on now and we're stronger for it and I definitely got a decent amount of laughs out of it too

I know it’s a lot to ask for! If Steemit is having connection issues again I’m gonna check busy.org they are the only way I figured it was HF20, they had a maintenance message.

Jokes aside, take a look at @krnel’s post he explains potentially what happened to cause an extended downtime.
https://steemit.com/witness-update/@krnel/witness-back-online-and-why-steem-crashed

Favorite meme here is the rent is too high, the down time, is way too long, from SNL, that guy is pretty funny, and my 2nd favorite is the witnesses in the flood as people walk by in the background.

Lol Glad you enjoyed my memes! I like to documeme-nt everything and these are fond meme-ories we should all cherish

That wasn't the hard fork, actually. HF20 happens on the 25th. I still don't know what caused the downtime! Still a funny post, though.

Hmm interesting, I accessed the Busy.org site during the downtime last night it said that it was down for HF20. Confusion for sure.

Oooh thanks for the info, that makes it even more of a juicy story now you have my curiousity! If you do find out please share it with me :)

@chekohler & @cmplxty Yeah, the bug had to do with HF20, but the fork is not scheduled until the 25th. It looks like they posted more info on the problem today: https://steemit.com/steem/@steemitblog/steem-status-100-operational

Not gonna lie... it was an emotional moment.. This will be one of the tragic stories I will tell my grandchildren while sitting in the rocking chair

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Well, I'm not going to lie, I saw your post and after that, the site immediately went down so I can't rule you out as a suspect in all of this! This comment could just be you trying to throw me off your tail!

Its kinda hard fork me to experience this for the second time.

Oooh fork puns I like I like! Hilarious

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Absolutely!!! I thought I was going crazy!!

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Lol people were inconsolable! Who knew steemit means so much to so many people! Just goes to show don’t take steemit for granted!

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😂 Absolutely... I thought I had been hacked.. Loving steemit more every day 😉

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😛 mini heart attack time! I’m glad your enjoying it hope you stick around and I’ll be watching your content closely 😏

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Lol...dude, I was tripped!

I was pretty chilled and really entertained by the whole thing to be honest

Ehhh??? But initially you were trilled.

Honestly I made peace with any money I put in crypto might just be lost for good! I’m just here to have fun

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Hahaha, oh I see. Have fun and put some change in your back pocket.

Lol exactly, google and Facebook currently pay the bills but hopefully steemit will one day pay for something!

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Alright. Till then.

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