I am so happy to be a part of this wonderful community! :)

Could we can face similar issue on implementation of HF20 velocity on 25 September.

The final Muhammad Ali’s quote it’s like the cherry 🍒 on the cake: really nice and appropriated!

Thanks guys for all your kind effort! 🙏🏻

A huge hug from @amico! 🤗

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You don''t know what you got till it's gone. I don't understand the magic the team of programmers do in the background to keep this thing working. But good job to everyone involved and thanks for the update.

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In my country we say, that in the difficult moments that we can see the true friends. For those of us who believe in the steemit project, we always hope that everything that happens is to make us stronger. Good energy for everyone and for better times to come.
Good vibes.

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Many thanks to all the witnesses who worked tirelessly to run steemit once again :)

Thank you for this information and professional presentation. This lends credibility to the platform when you have a clear an thorough explanation to the recent events that all steem members are concerned about. Thank you.

Well played :)

The scariest part is not knowing what is happening while everything is down. Maybe I am in the minority, but I am not well connected with many of the higher ups in the know. So I have to assume the worst and cross my fingers that everybody's accounts are safe.

I am glad it is back, and the glitches are being ironed out. 

Hopefully fixing the fork database will prevent this kind of downage again. It is concerning that witnesses testing the new fork can cause the main blockchain to hit a stop error.

Having some communication representatives available from official sources would also be appreciated in the future. Rumors start flaring up like wildfire because most of us have no direct communication lines, and that is bad for value of Steem on the exchanges. I heard there was a twitter post, and that was it. Maybe this can be improved too. I'm sure some of the witnesses would be happy to be trusted with spreading official news through popular discord channels, and on their app sites.

Any idea why Steem auto doesn't work anymore?

Amazing quote at the end. Well done team!

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Good to have an explanation, so thanks for that!

Also a nice thing that we now at least have the "tinkering robot" as the default page when there are issues causing the site to be offline.

As a non-nerd, I want to point to the support of the large number of Discord communities that have formed all by themselves, aside from any planned "communities" by Steemit, Inc. They enable "regular folks" to get some information — often from the technically inclined — in "plain English." And that speaks highly of the cohesiveness of the core of the Steemit community.

I did not come across even a single "I've had it!" rage-quitting type post/comment there.

=^..^=

Great job Steemit team and all the witnesses!!!

I know I poke my nose where it don’t belong but consider my interest to get the correct information my way of intercepting any accusations that may be thrown around, I aim to defuse and reinstall trust nothing else!

Good to hear that you guys have the safeguards in place to ensure the safety of everyone’s accounts. Going forward could we not install a system that automatically returns back to the last stable version in a situation like this?

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Thanks for the update.. many of us non-nerds were just sitting around frustrated ..luckily I was able to reach out to a witness (@themarkymark) who informed me what was going on.. I certainly hope everything is fixed..

Awsome :D

>This rapid rate of iteration is one of Steem’s uniquely valuable attributes and is virtually unheard of in the blockchain space, which itself is still in a highly experimental phase of development. The cost of this rapid innovation is incidents like the one that occurred yesterday,

AKA 
>"We put too much priority on SMTs and now everything else is buggy."

Realmente en los 7 meses que tengo dentro de la plataforma , me parece que es una plataforma estable, casi no he frecuentado caídas como la de ayer, pero fue muy rápida su resolución.

It's OK .........,

Kudos to the Steemit team (developers & witnesses) who worked tirelessly to ensure service is restored!

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So we had a unexpected hard fork, damn no wonder everything crashed. At least the stop mechanism ensured that errors were resolved. 
Thank you for explaining the reason for the delay and issues yesterday it was hard to figure out when Steemit itself is down when explaining to a friend DAPPs :p

Okay. I'm glad that the problem was identified and that the blockchain came up as quickly as it could. For me, that was 11 hours. Don't know what it meant to others, but it could have been less.

Realistically, I might have lost two to three STEEM from it being down. No big deal.

Maybe it meant more to others. I don't want to downplay it's significance for anyone else.

I guess the main thing that sits wrong is the inevitability of it all. Yes, the blockchain is highly complex. Yes, an error in coding is bound to happen. Yes, it would take way too long to test everything that could possibly go wrong, even if you could anticipate everything that could go wrong.

But what is it about these incidences (this is the second blockchain stoppage since I've been here—don't know if there were any or not before January 1, 2018), that is meant to instill confidence that they won't happen again? The fact that the community came together and resolved the issue? I'm glad it happened and things weren't prolonged. I'd be much happier if it never happened.

But that apparently can't be. So, when the next unlikely, unique, shouldn't happen anomaly takes place, and then the next, and the next, how often do you think this can go on before you lose the confidence of the users?

And maybe it's not so a big a deal now, with 50,000-60,000 daily users that are largely scraping out earnings through their social media efforts, but what happens when it becomes SMTs and after that, entire industries built on the STEEM blockchain, as in a worldwide digital economy?

As I've commented elsewhere, I hope the inevitability of this, sooner than later, becomes totally avoidable. That the impossible to foresee or catch or prevent now becomes absolutely possible, if not automatic. That means resources and money I suppose, and technology and knowledge that doesn't yet exist. Maybe that will be much later than sooner and we'll just all have to cross our fingers that another stoppage won't happen for a while longer.

It's great we've got people who can troubleshoot and resolve things. I'm glad people can work together. It's got to be frustrating for all of those involved since it can largely be a thankless job when something like this happens. I'm just hoping the commitment is there to avoid the likelihood of an all day (in my case) downtime, and if there are alternatives for allowing people to work, cache it somewhere or whatever the proper terminology might be, and then get it going on the blockchain when it's up and running again would be great. I don't know what the solution is. I just know there needs to be something better than it's impossible or it's inevitable and great work guys when it's restored.

I hope I've been able to communicate what I'm feeling and trying to say. I'm not trying to ruffle feathers or point fingers. I'm just trying to express a point of view in hopes that it will be heard and that someone will understand it. If anything could be done about it now or in the new future, that would be ultimate, but right now I'd settle for someone getting what I'm saying and being okay with the fact that I said it.

Good work, you guys seem resilient to hop back up from trouble.

And it seems that the community isn't salty but in the contrary more helpful than I thought 😄

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Maintaining the September 25th hardfork date isn't ideal.

For political and marketing reasons it might be...

I recommend delaying it an extra 10 days... and rescheduling it for October 5th.... give witnesses a time to role out a little slower, and more stable... and run additional testing...

Knowing we're trying again in only a week seems a little soon.

Great to see an official update on this and I am glad it was resolved reasonably quickly.  As more and more DApps come online (inc SMT's) this sort of down time will become harder for independent business who rely on the blockchain to tolerate. 

I do feel that communication to other stakeholders (ie the general public, non top 20 witnesses, DApp holders) could have been much better however.   This issues with this was expressed well by @therealwoolf in his post this morning so I won't repeat all his points here however I hope the team gets a chance to read it.

https://steempeak.com/witness-category/@therealwolf/the-day-the-blockchain-stood-still

please upvote my comment as compensation for the hf20 mishap....


just kidding..

howdy there steemitblog! Thanks so much for this information and explanation of what went down and why, greatly appreciated!

One thing that should be improved is the comunication.

Steemit.com only showed tge message "ups something went wrong" , ¿on my system, the frobt end ,the blockchain? It took me a while to figure out what was going on

I must say I felt totally peaceful with this. 
Is not the very first time this *Blackout* happens and Devs & Witnesses always find a solution. 

Cheers for the Chain!

Thank you to all involved. Awaiting the 20.x fix.