When I woke up this morning I saw that Steemit wasn't working.
This is one of those nightmare scenarios I dream about. lol.
I tried busy.org and had trouble logging in there too.
mmm....I didn't like the look of this.
I went to investigate.
I fired up Steemit chat and realized quickly that it was buzzing with activity.
I ran into @meesterboom there, It seems I wasn't the only one looking for a Steemit fix.
In the chat, I learned that Steemit was suffering from a DDoS attack.
That made me happy.
Anything worth DDossing is worth something. No point in doing it otherwise. Right?
As usual, I do try to see the positive side of things.
Normally I spend a lot of my time on Steemit throughout the day.
Wether it's on my computer or Esteem.
I couldn't do that today because it obviously wasn't working. But it didn't matter.
I ended up spending just as much time reading about why it wasn't working and talking with my friends about the DDoS while refreshing the steemit page as I normally do when Steemit is working fine.
It's ridiculous but true.
I have become a STEEM addict.
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lol join the club! I didn't know what to do with part of my morning routine because I like to first browse posts, comment and then post. But not having things happens in order was too odd so like you, I kept going back to chat for some reassurance that I wasn't the only addict!
My morning routine was upset as well. Strange how much effect it had.
yeah, very!
I am crypto addicted but like I have a life again
I was wondering what was going on this morning when I couldn't log on. I think there's quite a few Steem addicts out here, lol. I had never heard of a DDos attack before so I just looked it up. I agree, Steemit must be doing something right to attract this kind of attention, although it's the kind of attention we'd sooner be without.
Just glad it's back up and running so we can all get our fix. You and Bianca have a great night brother!
I just finish writing my history post and all of sudden, I lost everything. So I rewrite it and post it through esteem.
Then I saw I cannot access steemit.
A little frantic but good to have steemit back.
O man, Losing a post sucks. It happened to me in the past as well. Now I just copy and paste my text in notepad from time to time while writing.
It was nice seeing you in the chat!
I was worried too, it also made me realise how addicted to steemit I am!
Yeah, same here!
You guys and your steemit chat. Stop slumming it. Come to PAL-Discord! 😁
What one, there are millions of servers!!
The Pal one! Here: https://discord.gg/HYj4yvw
Also, @exyle, yes you are an addict. But this is a good sign. It's a running theme with users it seems so hopefully that's the hook for people to sign up and stay, to keep adding, keep voting, to stay engaged!
May the addictions continue!
You can find me on Steemitchat and Discord :)
nice post @exyle, it's great to be a steem addict, well i think the steemit blockchain is perfectly fine i read my fellow steemian dragosroua post today in which he tells that steemit blockchain is working perfectly fine and witnesses are continuing to produce blocks so the problem is only with steemit.com website, so i hope that the devs are working hard to get the website back on track and we surely see back the website soon and wow what a wonderful photograph that was you and bianca both looks awesome in that shot, stay happy and blessed my friend and thanks for sharing.
I guess regardless of the rep score, we all are. Me and @ghulammujtaba work at the same office and kept discussing the same on every smoke break. We were literally bored to death not being able to browse it. For a second we both doubted the network guy but later figured out it wasn't just us, nobody was able to browse it and we got to know it from the twitter.
But glad to have it back and yes, thanks to your post I just got the brighter aspect of it.
Believe me, I'm glad it's back too!
I think you are in good company! I am glad that for us, it was nighttime. The access disappeared while I was posting. First, I thought it was my computer and I cursed the poor thing! For once, it was innocent!
But even after a short time on here, I can see that addiction is coming my way.
I was actually posting a comment to one of your posts :)
I always blame the computer first too. Poor thing. Give him an extra floppy disk tonight.
:)
are you a full time steemit blogger ?
No, I have a day job. I work in IT.
It's the first thing I do in the morning after getting my coffee. It was alarming steemit wouldn't load, it started late last night acting strangely. Went to discord and then to busy and found out the issue. Now with certainty I can say there needs to be a program for steemit addiction!🐓
Steemit 'AA' meetings, lol.
I missed the outage, but it is interesting someone thought it was worth the effort DDOS steemit - maybe a disgruntled poster blacklisted for spam, or it could be as Steemit gets more coverage so the additional knowledge about it will bring bad as well as good to the platform -_-
It is interesting what the consequences of this will be. Like you said, looking at the bright side of things, this could mean that steemit proves it's reliability and value.
Is there a rehab centre for Steemit addiction?
Wow I was scared I saw in the past a lot of plataforms good going to the precipice and steemit worry me because do not have a way of income solid as facebook or google.
I understand you. Am addicted to steem too, it is very cool.😀😀
You being a Steemit addict has been confirmed, lol.
Ugh I know I realized this morning when it was down and I went over to discord and they said no good I had a moment of panic...like yeah guess I'm addicted.
Hi exyle, it's been a long time that I was on steemit. Been busy with other stuff but soon I will have more time to be addicted too. I also encountered the problem of not being able to log in (like all of us). I'm pleased to read the reason of this downtime. I didn't know that it was a DDos-attack. DDosing is pretty easy these days with the Kali linux distro. Some people do it for fun, apparently it can be exciting to see that a website goes down because of your actions. Oh and by the way, I posted my first vlog on steemit about saffron flowers. I recorded the vlog in July but didn't get to post it lol. happy to be back. Your logo turned out nice @twistychips did a nice job!
Welcome back, man!
We all are addicted now i was more affected by the downtime it was not accessible for a whole day for me :( but finally found some alternative way of using steemit yesterday
I was almost like you but not so much on esteem, the mobile app seems a little buggy at times making it not too reliable.
Same here buddy
It is definitely called Steem addiction ;)
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I, too, became dependent on Steemith. But it's nice, if during the DDoS attack there would be some warning for users what is happening.
It's disappointing that some unscrupulous people would always look for ways to exploit anything that gives off a good vibe. Why would anyone want to hack this platform? It's not even okay at all. I'm very happy the attack wasn't successful, I was very distraught when I couldn't login earlier.
Yes, you're right, today Steemit made me nervous and all day I did that, I checked how it works Steemit. Thank God, everything seems fine and we continue our work!
I was kinda shook up about not being able to access the site as well. But I remembered that as long as I have the private keys for my account, everything will be okay. After realizing that, I knew it would just be a matter of time before it was back.
Yea i get it too, steem is very addictive just like the early days of facebook instagram and so on. ✌😉 its all good. Be well @exyle
Me, too! Funky things were going on this a.m. Thankfully, I saw @penguinpablo's post on steemnow.
The publicity should be good for us. We definitely are worth hacking! ;)
yeah it was problem for many people..but thank God now steemit working
Yes, I also tried to go to the site, I had to worry about it when it did not work out. I think everything is fine now...
I also feel the same way as you, when I opened the steemit, I found HTTP ERROR 503, I almost confused thinking about it, then I used eSteem application, and I succeeded.
Yes, first I was little concern then I realize there is something wrong. But did not know about DDoS attack until you say so..
But I spend my day with friends and played some cricket with them.
And I am glad to see Steemit is up and ruining again,
Cheers
Why not becoming an addict, you are getting paid for everything you do here
Wow I was scared I saw in the past a lot of plataforms good going to the precipice and steemit worry me because do not have a way of income solid as facebook or google.
It is not that I am addicted it is just that I cannot stop.
Today many people find out, that they are steemit adicted :D :D
your addiction now spread.
i will wait for your result of investigate...
I'm addited to Steem too. Glad it is up again!
I'm proud to be a Steemit Addict. :-)
Somebody got jealous of the night steemit. Muahahah 😜
@exyle,
Yeah I also understood I am STEEMIT addicted too!
Cheers~
So true!
so what is really ddos?
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I understand you. Am addicted to steem too, it is very cool.
This post is so amazing, I'm so inspired to keep working hard.
thank for your great post.