# Update

<b>23:00 eastern</b>: All systems fully functional! Thank you again everyone for your patience! https://steemit.com/shadowbot/@shadowbot/full-service-restored-currently

<b>14:00 eastern</b>: System performance still slightly degraded due to steem congestion (see steemd and bandwidth for details). Minnow booster day will be extended through tomorrow to help make ensure everyone gets what they were expecting! Login and signup features should be working, though slow, if you get a time out, please try again. Members are telling us they do eventually get in!

<b> 4:15 eastern</b>: All core features are back online and functioning as expected. Sign up and Log in are the last features remaining to have minor issues. If you are unable to login or signup please try back later today once we post the confirmation that everything is working 100%! We are experiencing a hit/miss with this process right now. Core features ARE functional right now and we expect no further issues.

<b>Sun 07 Jan 2018 3:15 eastern</b>: Voting back online, only new users and upgrades in SP are still under issue. We are working on this currently and will have the full system back online 100% ASAP! Thank you all again for your patience, Minnow Booster day is in effect and is working and will be honored for the full 24 hours as planned! All current members are being rewarded at the moment and things should be running smoothly. We will continue to update everyone!

<b>Sun 07 Jan 2018 2:45 eastern</b>: Node issues identified, Vests to Steem has been identified as an issue (price from nodes for steem/sbd). Minimal voting is back online now! Updates soon! Thank you all for your patience!


# Original Post

We are experiencing a serious downtime in the API nodes (which are the critical piece that allows us to communicate to the blockchain in order to cast votes among other features). We are advising all to check back regularly for updates as we work on this issue! We will ensure to keep everyone updated at least every 8 hours until full service is restored.

Minnow Booster Sunday will be moved to the next full day this week to ensure all minnows still get a full 24 hours despite this downtime! We apologize greatly for this unexpected downtime and we greatly appreciate everyone being part of this!

We do advise since ShadowBot will not be casting any upvotes during this downtime to use it to spread some manual votes to people around more than you would normally if you reach 100% VP to continue to support the steemit community and earn your curation rewards!