@david.prochnow Wait, it happens sometimes but not others?  I'm probably not going to be able to  figure out what the deal is tonight if it can't be recreated 100% of the time by doing the same thing twice.  I heard mention of a 30 minute waiting period but I'm not sure if that's the deal in this case either.

Regardless of the cause I'll go track someone down by hand and try to figure this one out for you because now I'm wondering what happened as well.  If this platform managed to accidentally handicap new users to the point where the platform is unusable that's one thing.  But if this was by design then I'll go raise hell for you because that would very possibly be the stupidest thing I've ever seen.  Invite people to an unusable platform?   

*Yeah that'll go over well... Most people will just give up and move on, or go back to reddit/facebook because at least there they can use the freaking thing... >facepalm<*

**I seriously hope this was unintended and is just a coding error but I'll have to read it all to know for sure.  There's been so much melodrama over recent unilateral changes without any discussion of thought first I'm sorry if I seem mad, because it's not at you.  Not even a little, I'm tired of every new patch that seems to be almost designed to tie peoples hands or even go so far as to knock the legs out from under them altogether. I had hopped by maybe tagging some of the other coders someone would even look at this but it appears I'm going to have to take a more proactive almost "in their face" approach to get some answers.  Sorry you're having to go through all this, but I'll keep at it and let you know because frankly if it's happened to you and you were one of the few to speak up, then it's already happened to many others that already moved on.**

### I'll be in touch once I figure something out.  I guess I should have expected these kinds of issues a bit more during a beta but things were working just fine before HF 13 so I don't see why everything is just a massive mess after HF 13.  Hang in there man, I've finally had enough that I've already let loose on Github and it seems like steemit.chat is my next stop on the "hate me if you want to for speaking my mind" train...

I registred yesterday and I am facing the same problem. I cannot vote and when I tried to upload my introduceyourself I got the same error. Is there yet something known about this ''Transaction failed'' message?

Nope, just checked and this has been an issue since before monday for some people which was the day HF 13 went live.  If you google it it's all over the place dating back way farther than monday.  >sigh<  Welcome to Beta...

I also just upvoted every single one of your comments in this thread to  try and boost your voting weight a little bit higher but sorry if it doesn't do much.  My SP and vests are no where near high enough to just bump you past that kind of threshold single handedly but at this point I'm also not above gaming the system as a stop gap until this issue can be addressed.