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RE: Intermittent Outages Due to DDoS
Hey, @steemitblog.
Thanks for the heads up. It really is appreciated and nice to know when it's just something on my end acting up, or part of a larger issue.
It's still been a little temperamental this morning, so I'm wondering if the intermittency is still ongoing as of now? Going to try to see what I can do through Steemit this morning, since it always seems to be the front end I end up using. :)
Haha, good to know. Yes, I think it's interesting that despite the many new interfaces, steemit remains the most used interface by far. While we're definitely putting a lot of thought right now into how we're going to make steemit.com better, I think it's still important to ask ourselves what it was about steemit.com that made it so compelling early on (certainly wasn't the UI) and why people still use it at all, despite the low retention rates. We certainly want to make it much better, and fast, but I think we also don't want to destroy the magic. Thoughts?
Yeah, I've been experiencing intermittent outages as well. We're still working on it and we'll provide an update as soon as we have new information.
Hey, @andrarchy.
Okay on the ongoing outages.
re: thoughts
Well, if we're looking at what not to take away, I would say that would be to keep the clean look—simple, intuitive, unencumbered feel. Keep the fonts and the font sizes. The more fancy things get, the feel of a site tends to get cluttered. Keep it fast. Keep it lean and mean. I guess the formatting can change to some degree, the fact that it loads blink of the eye in the browser and that there's not much if any lag are all strong points. Mostly, I'm just trying get in and work, anyway.
In fact, the only two things I've wanted really from the beginning was the ability to save multiple drafts, and to schedule posts. Having an option to see my feed differently, or different colors, or what have you, that might be fun, but it's not part of the core user experience in my opinion. :)
I actually like steemit.com's UI. I don't really like large graphic images taking up too much space because scrolling becomes tedious fairly quickly. I would be careful about any changes you make. I remember I used to use Yahoo Sports for years and years and then one day they redesigned it just for the sake of change and it was awful. I switched to ESPN's website and I've never gone back to Yahoo Sports since.
Yahoo Sports has changed the design back to the simpler way it was before but by then it was too late as I had gotten used to ESPN.
We always have our head up here at steemit. Little known fact, the head is the best part of your body.
We call that a bad hair day in the biz.
Back making the rounds I see, @nedshair. :)