Yep. I actually thought this could end up being an issue. They simply integrated the system with steemimg I believe which is still centralized. So if you used IMGUR for example and their service was unreachable for some reason this same thing would happen.
EDIT: It does look like quite a few sites are having problems that use AWS right now. It is pretty widespread. I rebooted my machine a few minutes ago wondering why various sites seemed slow or were not showing images, and then I had a coworker share the aws status link.
EDIT 2: This is actually pretty huge and is impacting a lot of sites, and other image hosting sites as well.
Massive! 😱 But imagine if this was a censorship drive or something similar? But I believe that steemit.com doesn't fully rely on AWS and it wouldn't be impossible to migrate, as sneak said. Still, this is not a drill!
Yes, I presume it's by design. No badness meant by the gibe. Obviously the steemit.com servers do a lot to make blockchain access actually consumer level fast, especially in the caching department. It does bring up the topic though, I see several are talking about it.
Yep. I actually thought this could end up being an issue. They simply integrated the system with steemimg I believe which is still centralized. So if you used IMGUR for example and their service was unreachable for some reason this same thing would happen.
Yep. I actually thought this could end up being an issue. They simply integrated the system with steemimg I believe which is still centralized. So if you used IMGUR for example and their service was unreachable for some reason this same thing would happen.
EDIT: It does look like quite a few sites are having problems that use AWS right now. It is pretty widespread. I rebooted my machine a few minutes ago wondering why various sites seemed slow or were not showing images, and then I had a coworker share the aws status link.
EDIT 2: This is actually pretty huge and is impacting a lot of sites, and other image hosting sites as well.
Massive! 😱 But imagine if this was a censorship drive or something similar? But I believe that steemit.com doesn't fully rely on AWS and it wouldn't be impossible to migrate, as sneak said. Still, this is not a drill!
steemit.com runs 100% inside of AWS.
Thanks for the clarification
Yeah it is well beyond steemit and is impacting tons of sites all over the place.
The only decentralized part of this social network is text—by design.
Yes, I presume it's by design. No badness meant by the gibe. Obviously the steemit.com servers do a lot to make blockchain access actually consumer level fast, especially in the caching department. It does bring up the topic though, I see several are talking about it.
Let's explore the blockchain now.....
Yep. I actually thought this could end up being an issue. They simply integrated the system with steemimg I believe which is still centralized. So if you used IMGUR for example and their service was unreachable for some reason this same thing would happen.