Membership to Steemit.com is now under invitation only

in #steemit9 years ago

Because of unexpectedly high sign up rate.

My friend want to sign up but cannot because this message come out since yesterday

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market strategy? VIP effect?

I am waiting for Ned or Dan to explain but they did not update their facebook or twitter

thats intense, I wonder how many were signing up per minute?

is that why the last couple of hours have been slow in page refresh/load?

Yes yes yes. Can i hear a Amen. ◕ ‿ ◕

Actually we need more member

My speculation is that they don't want to expose any more people to a potential hack. They probably are watching the system carefully until they are certain that it is relatively secure. Then they will open the doors and the rest of the world will come rushing in.

I think this is simpler than it sounds. They simply don't have the backend to handle so many users. Which explains why we have been getting errors off and on. So, they are probably going to expand their servers before membership opens again.

I thought the blockchain processing is done by all the miner out there? So they still need a server to handle the front end?

Yeah, pausing sign up will slow growth