Well that was an exciting few days for everyone on steemit and really the lessons should have been learned way before they implemented HF20?

No one in their right mind would release such a buggy update....wait!

Microsoft, Google, Youtube and any other large tech firm you can care to think of release total crap at every update and then expect ordinary everyday users to find and report the bugs.

I am on the pre-release group for Microsoft Windows 10 and it is always a crap shoot if it is going to work.
Drivers are dumped and replaced without warnings and we find ourselves having to roll back to older drivers etc.

The ordinary everyday user is basically screwed until the fixes are made or someone puts out a work around that an idiot can follow.

This is unfortunately the tech business model and to be totally honest.

The steem devs were pretty fast with the patches and the witnessses 'mostly' redeployed as fast as was technically possible to do it.

All those complaints I assume came from people with little or no experience in the the computer industry where it is the norm to release buggy code.

No other industry is like this but it is what it is. Imagine buying a car and then they tell you when you are driving down the road that they will send the brakes as soon as they are ready.

This is life on the bleeding edge and we (steem) are certainly out there.

I have you on my witness list @brandonfrye already and if I could vote for you twice, I would...wait! I do already with my @steemimages account :-)

You know that you have my support. You are doing a great job.