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RE: Intermittent Outages Due to DDoS
It would be nice if we got more updates on stuff like this when it's happening. Steem isn't a normal platform...and people don't really like how closed normal platforms are anyway. It would be nice to hear/see normal updates on things happening, when you're adding new servers, when you're receiving attacks, when you get new employees, when they have birthdays, etc, etc, etc. You need to be the friendly neighborhood Steemians, not Ozcorp.
We're not Ozcorp! ;) We've been trying hard to improve our communications which is why we've been putting out engineering updates every week. One challenge for us is that we have a lot of security concerns and many Steemit employees are extremely security conscious, and for good reason. Their obsession with security is what helps keep our users and our app developers safe. But we do have projects in the works specifically aimed at giving better insight into the organization. But we also have more work than time and time spent not engineering is time spent ... not engineering. Thanks for the feedback!
Yeah, many of us on here have all sorts of security concerns. We have a ton of users here that are anonymous, despite the efforts by some to pressure everyone to doxing themselves. They shouldn't ignore their security concerns. That's actually what killed Google+ when they tried to launch and just fell flat on their face because they ignored the concerns of their users and employees who didn't want another Facebook.
Of course it went on for quite some time on life support. Too bad they didn't just take out the huge shiv they shoved into it and patch the bleeding artery.
I have of course noticed the efforts to try to improve communication. But I've also seen many companies try to over the years...and often it stops after a short time. Unless they manage to overcome the hump and fundamentally change the way they interact with the public. Steemit Inc has been cut off from all of Steem for some reason. It's good seeing this starting to change...but...it's not going to be easy. Good luck.
Http was never meant to be a final soltuion. Get the esteem application and check out the full node reports to get rpc . Or deploy your own rpc ( we are )