There is so much I want to do on Steemit, but I am halted constantly by slow or non-existent connection speeds. Anyone else experiencing this? I imagine it's an issue with scaling... with so many millions of people here now, so many new posts, we seem to have a constant bottle neck going on.
Surely there is a way to streamline this site. Any suggestions for dealing with the bottle neck so I can post consistently without screaming in frustration?
Wow! This was extremely insightful and made for an excellent post.
So here's the deal.
The primary problem with steemit isn't the steemit servers themselves, although they can have problems from time to time. It's the fact that the site is extremely image heavy and if you profile the site it's making tons of calls to update the DOM i.e. the part of the site you see.
Everytime the DOM is updated, it has to be completely redrawn. Ergo 1000 posts all linking images and needing to be formatted causes heavy load on any computer.
My laptop literally MELTED from trying to be on steemit too much. There are alternative interfaces for steemit that are more light weight. Xeroc has a good one called piston. It's just a program you setup and install on your computer.
https://steemit.com/piston/@xeroc/piston-web-first-open-source-steem-gui---searching-for-alpha-testers
There are instructions in there, but before you follow them you should do perform the following incantation on your command line...
do the first one every day anyways, it's just good practice
sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade -y
now you need to install git
sudo apt install git
From there just follow Xeroc's instructions in the link above and it should just work for you since you're running raspbian and already have python installed but it might take awhile to sync the first time and each time you use it, it may take a little bit to "warm up" before it catches up the blockchain. Careful though because pi's don't normally have a heck of a lot of storage space on them.
Let me know if that works for you.