No, its a visual bug with the latest version of peakd, a hard browswer refresh will fix it (or at least should) Ctrl+Shift+R or / Cmd+Shift+R / Ctrl+F5 / Cmd +F5 depending on what operatig system you're on.
I'm a witness, and it costs bugger all to run a validator / consensus node. I've been a witness for less than a month, and while a full node (which helps the chain actually work) is a bit more complex and requires more hardware than I currently have - it is something that I am strongly considering when my wife's computer gets her next upgrade - because... I'll have the hardware, and there's no point in selling it for a pittance - and I get free power from the sun.
The "thing in it" is the very principle of HIVE, as far as I am concerned. Immutable blog posts. A ledger of ideas.
The immutable blockchain was the initial attraction. As a long-time content creator, there's nothing I dislike more than checking in one morning only to discover that the hosting site went bankrupt and took six years' worth of published work with them down the tubes. OR checking in and discovering that my stuff is suddenly taken hostage behind a paywall. Image host are particularly bad about that last bit.
Thanks for the explanation behind the mystery downvote.
It's not much, but I'll toss a vote at your witness. I like to support those who actually engage with the community.
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Just in case Hive ever does go down, I developed a tool recently that lets you download your (or anyone else's account history) as well as a whole bunch of analytics on the content.
https://holoz0r.github.io/HiveReportCard/
It will grab the posts from the Hive API, download them, analyse them, and give you the option to download a CSV / JSON of all the content published.
Initially, I just wanted a tool to extract all my prior posts to make referencing my prior posts better in my local "Writing" database, but then the data nerd in me went from one thing to another.
It has probably too many features now. I keep telling myself it is complete, but I keep thinking of new tings to add to it.
That's really useful sounding... I'll have to check it out! Hopefully things around here will never truly go upside down, but it's nice to have a backup plan!
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