Just checked steemd.com and it says - Post bandwidth: 36,843
But how can this be possible when steemit.com reports that I have just 1 post in the last 24 hours and all others are made more than 24 hours ago? Does that value also count comments as posts and add to the Bandwidth, as if it does than that makes it even worse for users... having to count how many posts you have made and how many comments and and spending too much time figuring out when to post your next comment or article in order not to hurt your possible rewards by doingso.
Apparently the comments you make do not add points in the Post Bandwidth value, have just tried that to confirm it is not the problem, so it is something else that keeps the bandwidth high even though I have just a single post in the last 24 hours. Maybe it could be some sort of a bug then...
Guess I'll have to wait about 4 more hours until the single left post published in the last day also gets past the 24 hours perido since publication to see how my Post Bandwidth will change after that, but there is something definetly wrong here that makes the 4 posts per day rule without a penalty not working properly.
If you cannot use the simple rule of posting 4 articles in a time span of 24 hours and have to track your Post Bandwidth with steemd or use tools like yours (very useful BTW, especially for new users) in order to be sure when to publish or not, then you are essentially wasting time for useless things. This, along with the many other things you need to keep track of in order not to get a penalty of some sort for wanting to contribute something good can easily make you loose interest in steemit in no time. Having to waste time on things that don't exactly work as they should, tracking and trying to figure them out when you can spend that time on something more useful such as on writing better quality articles!
Ok, at the moment all of my Blog posts are more than 24 hours ago yet the Post Bandwidth remains at 36,843 and the tool of course says I should not post a new article (actually it says CAN again, and I saw that you have changed it to SHOULD earlier).
It is really bugging me now how and why is this happening and why the theory does not work in practice, so the only thing that remains is to post a new article and see what happens if my Post Bandwidth will go over 40000 or not.
Ok, just posted another article and guess what... my Post Bandwidth suddenly got to 10,000 on steemd.com and your tool of course has updated the result it was returning saying I can post 3 more times today!
The conclusion is that apparently steemd.com uses some sort of caching algorithm and if your tools uses data from steemd.com that it also reads that cache and in turn may report false information making users confused as what is wrong like in my case.
The interesting thing is that apparently not everything on steemd is being cached, probably just some parameters as other information seems to be regularly updated... I have noticed that sometimes my Voting Power is stuck at some value for a bit until it updates to a new value, but did not expect that the same thing happens for Post Bandwidth as well.
Thanks for running this experiment, @cryptos. I really appreciate it.