No it really was not nice, and I am not sure it was legal, but, at least I can, once again, steem on, after accepting their forced terms.

The initial update was removed after about four hours due to the problem, and number of complaining post that were done. I did notice in the TOS this:
> If we decide to make changes to this Agreement, we will provide notice of those changes by updating the “Last Updated” date above or posting notice on steemit.com. 

Notice that little two letter word - "above <b>or</b> posting" - between above and posting? So now they can just change it whenever they feel like it, and as long as they change the - "Last Updated" -  then, if they do not feel like it, even need to tell you it has been changed, so if you want to know if the TOS has been changed you will need to look at it every day

I agree with both @bashadow and @deliberator above thank you😊

Yep, and state we were forced to accept. I do not accept the new terms, they may be better than the old terms but the reality the only terms I accepted freely were the ones when I signed up.

No glitch that any one has been able to determine, just a poorly designed update protocol, will likely see something similar again in a few days. Programmer oops according to some.

Until they allow me a chance to fully read before accepting (yes I read the new ones already), then for me the old terms still apply. I do not accept the new terms, as they were forced on me.

Yes, and due to our mostly incompetent legal system, they will say the law only requires us to let you know that we made a change, which they did, they just did not allow you to read the changes. But I am sure they would say they were full in compliance with the law by notifying us that there was a change..

After about 4 hours, it caused such an uproar they pulled the change. Still waiting for another one to happen only smoother, without the glitch. I saw a short time after it happened at least 10 others posting about it, and one of them was a whale, and a witness to boot, he was like me and others, not a happy camper.

i just got one today... have you noticed the new terms yet

The terms of service as far as I could tell the only update was to the Privacy Policy link I think. But I do not have the original to compare it with. The privacy policy is real real long, and I am sure it had a lot of changes in regards to who has the right to use and sell what information they want and to who. I think that was most likely brought on by Microsoft's Purchase of github, and that steemit is telling people that their content is their content on steemit and github. I am not a github user since I do not develop programs, but I would imagine that new Privacy Rights are going up for github also.

Give it time it will arise, unless they already know it is messed up, and pulled it already. The new terms window would not let you do anything on steemit until you clicked accept, it would not even let you read the new terms, until you clicked accept.

All the little doorways have their own we get to steal this from you if you use our service to access this other service, and our terms will override their terms, oh, and our terms also override all other terms you have agreed to in the past 20 years because we demand that if you want to use our service. TOS are garbage, all of them. If people really read all of the terms of service associated with just one computer operating system they would be reading for the next six months to six years.

Not sure it is even legal how they did it. That's why I made my little post, not that I remember everything the originals had in them, but those are the only terms I hold as being in effect for me. We will likely have to go through this exercise again tomorrow, or in a day or two when they see how badly it was done.

I got a response from Tim Cliff, he says they already pulled the update, so I am guessing we will need to do it all again soon. At least they responded pretty quick to the outrage this has caused.

Microsoft  buying git-hub?