I definitely agree with you. It has to be stupid simple. We cannot expect everything to be very simple in the blockchain world and that's also one of the biggest problems in crypto adoption. Below is a very common phrase in the crypto world. Not with just Hive Engine. As I said earlier, it can also happen to Hive when api.hive.blog goes down because it is one of the most used nodes.
"It's not a problem, change the node."
Nodes are a very common thing in the blockchain world and that's one of the things that differentiate web2 and web3. This facility is both a boon as well as bane. It is more like if we don't like a node switch to another. hive-engine.com is just one interface that was having problems, people should know to switch to tribaldex or other wallet interfaces that work.
There should be other volunteers willing to create alternative user interfaces that can help during node issues. Nobody is ready to do it because there is no proper incentive for that.
the issue is, hive is very unique in the blockchain space because of the social elements to it. so a large audience of who we attract is not always blockchain savvy.
they just want things to work.
it's imperative that we get these apps to switch nodes automatically, so that the user experience is flawless for the people we are trying to attract.
we only have one time to make a first impression, and i can almost guarantee the majority of those that have join the chain these past few weeks, have more than likely already given up and moved on.
Definitely agree with you on that. I understand the fact that the experience should be seamless. But some of the apps that had issues are mostly centralized with limited facility. But blaming the entire blockchain and calling it down or having issues is what concerns because as I said, if Peakd is down we don't blame Hive for not having a seamless experience. We move on to Ecency or hive.blog. I heard people using tribaldex with the right nodes did not have any issues.
I completely agree with you on the User experience part but that a different topic and the current issue is not related to user experience directly. Even if the node issues are resolved, there will still be some elements of these user experience issues which definitely needs to be addressed.
It just seems like....
Everything is having issues. lol
Yeah the last two weeks have been a royal pain
Lol funny. It works for me.
does it work? swapping hbd and hive?
Yes it worked.
Yeah I was having problems with that too and they told me it was an issue on my end, lol. I was like nope, try again.
the insanity of 'change your nodes' as an answer is why Hive can never have good things lol
Yep, most of these developers don't develop for the end user, they develop to impress other developers, lol, but half the time can't get things to work right.
sad but very true
that is for sure fed up having to do that