It was indeed a clusterfork and we all expected such.
Right at the moment we are still being fed BS by one entity.
Equilibrium will be reached in 5 days.
(paraphrased)
Wrong.
An initial equilibrium, based on still less transactions due to the clusterfuck that was HF20 - with subsequent patchwork - will be reached in the next few days.
After that initial equilibrium is reached and we have pretty much ALMOST normal RC costs for everyone and everything, a new equilibrium will be reached some days later.
Some days later only, because only then will everyone have be able to post for several days at ALMOST normal expected cost. To do as they would normally do, as they did pre-HF20.
I’m going to rehash a comment of mine here, one of the few things I have publicly said about HF20.
The reason for rehashing my comment is that “this post I wasn’t going to make” is because I’m going to consider this post both a milestone and a pre-announcement. This post will serve as a reminder and commitment for .self.
It was a clusterfork and while bugs happen, this also happened because the top 20 is slightly too stale, too settled.
There are many issues in this HF and several which should already have been covered before testnet even.
It is indeed easy to bash but the process pre-testnet has been lacking. Testnet should be considered an actual release candidate and also should have specific guidances about what to test/validate.
Meanwhile biggest exchange wallets have been down for “scheduled maintenance” since last freeze.
Let’s not beat around the bush here - and this comes from someone who generally thinks Steemit Inc has the right vision: in any other company heads would roll over this release. Even more so since Velocity was in the works for more than a year. It would be whether bye Ned or bye Vanderberg.
Simple as.
Lessons need to be learned from this.
By everyone.
By Steemit Inc, by the governance, by the wider witness community, and by us voters.
I believe in #flearn. Fail and learn.
I am from the school of lean and agile but I know that doesn’t necesssarily apply to a blockchain’s codebase. Waterfall may indeed be more appropriate to blockchain code.
Ugh, did I just publicly express support for waterfall methodology? frakmesideways
Anyway, let’s get to the crux of this post.
I’m going to run a witness.
Contrarily to my usual habits I’m not just going to JFDI, Just Fkn Do It. A witness is a huge responsibility, a massive commitment and not just running a reliable - and vastly overpowered - box.
I’m going to run a witness because there needs to be more accountability on this chain. There needs to be more commitment to excellence, excellence on every level.
If the site you read this on still sports the beta tag, then beta has to be a commitment to keep improving, much like Gmail sported the beta tag until it started to hurt Google’s sales team because larger corporations wouldn’t pay for beta.
Beta, after more than 2 years, is not an excuse anymore to wipe the slate clean over frak ups. Beta is a continued process of flearns.
Beta is a commitment.
Come next January I’m going to launch a witness, most likely a co-operated witness, and there will be an actual policy brought to the table. Something to buy in to, something to support, something to actually stand and fight for.
I’m going to prepare a policy, something more than just a personality with a post, attitude few comments, and a reliable box. A charter basically.
This post is going to serve as a reminder to hold both .self and the ecosystem accountable.
My commitment is that I will stand for something and hold everyone accountable for the interest of all, not for the few. And you, all, you will hold myself accountable about that too.
There needs to be more pressure on this chain. Pressure to achieve excellence. On all possible levels.
Let’s fkn do this.
Btw... if you haven’t yet you should go vote @fulltimegeek for witness, and also @reggaemuffin and @pharesim who both have come with excellent flearns from this HF. Just like happened with HF17 btw.