The API server setting is buried under the Advanced setting of your settings under your profile page. But if you haven't set it, it should be default to https://api.hive.blog and falling back to https://anyx.io if it has any problems. We haven't had any issues reported with api.hive.blog recently. There was a certificate issue that affected https://anyx.io recently, I've been told.
If you're experiencing this problem currently, you can go to the advanced section and try changing your api server. But I asked around, and no one else has reported a similar problem.
I will give those a try. Thanks for your help!
As a follow up FYI, I switched to the anyx.io api server from the api.hive.blog default and things have been working much much better. Just a heads up.
It's possible you are geographically closer to anyx's node. On the BitShares network, the API nodes would actually advertise their location, so people could connect up to their nearest node. Eventually we'll probably build in code to detect which node has the least latency for the given user.
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