RE: "Steem Is Broken!?!" A Conversation with Sida of Partiko
Thanks @andrarchy. Maybe when you get bored in all your free time 😂you could put it up on 2x play seed on YouTube (life saver!) to catch the rest. We do address how the witnesses and the application owners can and should do more to help with the testing process. More time doesn't automatically mean people will prioritize testing. I think this experience showed us all how, if we want a better outcome, we need to take more personal responsibility for improving the process. If the testnet wasn't exactly right, we should have figured that out early on, made changes, and then moved forward with more accurate testing on the testnet. As it was, people (myself included) only got around to really tinkering at the last minute. We can't do that going forward if we expect a different result.
Amen. And just to clarify, I wasn't pointing a finger at anyone. While this has all been less than ideal and extremely stressful, I can't help but feel proud of what we've all managed to accomplish, even if to some it seems like an apparent failure. We just improved our bandwidth algorithm. So far every issue is temporary. I am perfectly comfortable saying that while we did a bunch of things wrong, we all have plenty to be proud of.
I do think Steem is an amazing blockchain doing some amazing things which only some have the technical capacity to fully appreciate. I do think there is (and will be) plenty to be proud of. I also hope there will be a detailed explanation of the things which did go wrong so the community can better understand the quality of the developers building Steem and what steps they are taking to avoid these types of mistakes in the future.