Steemit has been experiencing intermittent downtime as hoards of users flock to the new social networking upstart during the early hours of Monday the 18th of July. Slack communication during this time was also down for maintenance -- at a time the community needs such channels to ease fears of losing all of their new found cryptocurrency wealth. This comes just days after client side attacks stole funds from accounts, and hackers launched distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks against the web property.
In a recent statement issued by Ned, the CEO of Steemit, it was claimed that the team is working hard to mitigate such issues.
This process may take a few days, but we operate under the maxim that it is better to be safe than sorry. Steemit will be back up and running soon, and anyone whose accounts were compromised will be reactivated and fully reimbursed.
Meanwhile, many users have been greeted with 503 errors, internal server errors, and new accounts even saw messages indicating their newly created accounts simply did not exist.
While such experiences should be expected during periods of exponential growth for any upstart, it does make one ponder whether or not these might be the norm on a website that is tied to presenting an ever evolving distributed blockchain ledger of posts and votes.
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