Cracking Codes in an Unconventional Way!

I thought of writing this post in Steem Dev, but since I'm no developer, I refrained from doing so. The rules clearly state that:

Only posts related to Steemit development can be shared in this community.

This community is a collaborative community for all steemit developers.

Ever since I joined this platform, I have been very much involved in understanding how it works. While I don't fully understand how coding works, I have been inquisitive and asking questions for my understanding. And I appreciate all the developers, steemchiller, the-gorilla, @moecki (thank you additionally for supporting new bloggers like me), and many others who have been working in any capacity to keep this chain up and working along with the witnesses.

The Codes that I cracked understood uptil now:

Why Am I Not Getting The Notification of my Mentions???

Those who know me are aware that I started with Wox, participating in challenges by @xpilar. I won a few, especially the digital art ones. Initially, I didn't understand much about the full dynamics. One day, I saw a whopping 15 Steems in my wallet from Xpilar. Intrigued, I visited his blog and found a post where I was mentioned as the first winner. Oh boy, did it feel good! The Steem prize of 15 Steems added to the joy. I hadn't felt that good since my university days when I had won a gold medal for distinction. (Yes, I did 🫣).

Anyways, I thankfully accepted the prize and mentioned that I didn't receive any notification. Xpilar took note, but somehow, it happened again. I had won a second prize and only got to know after 3 days. Me, being me, again approached Xpilar, stating that I didn't get the mention. And this time, he tracked the issue. Below is the screenshot of our conversation from more than a month ago. Thankfully, Xpilar doesn't reply very often; otherwise, I wouldn't be able to track this down so easily. Thank you so much for responding to my silly inquiries.

I will still consider myself a part of this cracking. 😆 Since then, I always get a notification of his mention. And I do know that when he mentions, it's totally worth it.

Then, through further exploration, I discovered that mentions don't always work due to threshold issues and other factors. But I always receive notifications from Xpilar when participating in my favorite digital art challenge, which makes me happy for the time being.

Why Can't I Underline My Text???

In our schools, there was always an emphasis on underlining important headings, and assuming you know that we are from the era of handwritten notes. So when I started exploring Markdown style (let me tell you, there is not one comprehensive guide out there. I'm thinking about writing one, just when I have understood every aspect fully) I couldn't find any command or code for underline text. So I searched and searched, went through previous posts, Googled, here and there—all in vain. Well after that, I asked @steemchiller the same question. By then, I didn't even know if I was asking the right person or if he would even reply. The last post was some 2 months old. Anyways, I thought, what's the harm!

But, he did reply. And I am really thankful to him for that.

Recent Irregular Behaviour of our Dearest Steemit:

Well, I think everyone who is using Steemit actively knows that there are some issues going on with the platform. Maybe steemit throwing some tantrums. Who knows?

Anyways,

• Voting anomalies, and
• delayed or missing comments,

are the two main issues I've encountered on the Steemit platform recently.

Once again, thanks to steemchiller's SteemWorld app, without which most of us would never know what we were missing on the front end. I myself had posted one blog twice, without realising and then praying that the Steem watcher didn't catch me promptly and label me an abuser! Deleted the first one promptly (that promptly was with half an hour delay 😎… thanks to the bug or whatever error that is lingering on an on).

So, here comes the short-term solution while our hardworking developers are definitely working on it.

I have tested and tried this hack multiple times before writing this.

Voting Anomaly:

If you see that your post has been upvoted on SteemWorld but it's not showing even after 24 hours, here's a little hack. You can upvote your post. I know self-voting is generally discouraged, but you can upvote at 1 percent. The missing votes will promptly show. Even then, if you are not comfortable with the idea of self-voting, you can always remove your vote from the post, once the missing vote/ votes appear.

Disclaimer: Well, I really don't know one thing: whether voting anomalies in the blockchain are temporary or permanent. If they show on SteemWorld, does it mean the transaction has been carried out? If that's the case, then maybe we can skip the practice. But for some users, it can bring peace of mind.

Comments Anomaly:

I don't know if you observed or not, but the comment anomalies arise in secondary and tertiary comments. You may get a notification for the comment, but sometimes the comment never appears on the main page or under the parent post. For me, it's a very frustrating situation. One such mention was by a dear friend, @o1eh. He was accused of nominating my post without checking some rules, which was, of course, a very wrong accusation. In my opinion he is such a disciplined curator and blogger when it comes to fair voting. Anyways, he cleared the inquiry in the secondary comment where he had mentioned me. But it never appeared under the parent post. Believe me I went like dozens of times back to that post to see the response of the parent commenter.

I didn't know the hack then, else I would have applied it.
But, now I know. 😎 😉

If you get a notification of a comment under some post, or you get to know it through SteemWorld, and you don't see it under the parent post, just go to that comment and write a reply to that comment. Just type anything, any letter, a dot, number, and see the miracle... the comment will appear out of nowhere.

Now, what to do about that senseless comment that you used as a bait to pull out or unhide the original comment — Simple, DELETE it.

It felt like some bug was jamming the comments just like the malibu stacy head jamming Bart Simpson's drain. 😆

The comments and votes appear like water gushing down, after the clogging has been removed from a drainage pipe.

P.S. I would say WAIT, at least an hour or two before applying these hacks. Sometimes it's only a matter of minutes before comments or votes appear. I applied these hacks only, whenever that didn't happen even after 24 hours.

This can also work for those SEC where you need certain number of comments or votes under your Challenge post.

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P.S. These are just small, harmless hacks for the time being, while the issues on the frontend are being fixed hopefully. I hope none of you will misuse them.

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NOTE: For anyone who doesn't know how to use SteemWorld, here is a breakdown:

Type: https://steemworld.org/@***

Where *** is your user name on steemit. Type it as it is without any caps.

This app is developed by @steemchiller

The "Top 75" outlined in the red box is another development by the same developer under @realrobinhood, which can also be reached directly through this app.

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I want to conclude this post with a thank you note for all the developers, witnesses, SRs, the team, contributors (who prefer not to be mentioned ❤️), bloggers, and everyone who makes the experience of blogging on Steemit worthwhile.