The devs attempted to add a feature to track user interractions on the site, it relied on a third party, and when that service went down, it caused an infinite loop of requests on the chain, this caused the server for Steemit.com to fail.
This is not accurate.
I apologise for any inconvenience I've created
I have deleted the content
Won't happen again
I love steemit.com and I want to invest my cash in Steem Power
I am not looking for any trouble
Thank you very much