About a week ago, we saw the HF20 update on steemit. I just came online as usual with a good post i have prepared. I logged into my account and saw the red banner on top. I have even forgotten what it was saying. Well, i didn't even bother reading further, instead i went ahead to submit my post but i couldn't. I tried a few more times but couldn't.
When i realized that the situation is serious is when i kept trying for about 3 more days but couldn't. So i was prompted to click the "read more" where i understood what was going on a little bit. Up till now, even though the red banner have turned blue, and saying its now stable, yet i still find it difficult to post.
My question now is...why has steemit toughened up on its babies? By babies, i mean the planktons and minnows on steemit. Not just minnows because i am still a minnow but what about people that just joined a month ago? The newbies?
How will they cope with all this going on now?
Even me that has been on steemit for about 6 month and have almost repaid the steem power delegated to me, yet i can hardly make a single post a day, not to talk of making comments, upvotes or even reply my own comments, because my RC and SP is low, what about people that still using the 15Sp delegated to them? Steemit is just frustrating now.
I really dont understand how the platform is engineered and why they did what they did. But i know they have a very good reason for the update given all the proffessional working behind the scene. I even noticed that SP has also become stronger and upvotes keeps increasing but all this at the cost of we minnows.
The worst part is that the whales and dolphin and other with high SP are free to post, upvote, comment while we are just watching. Its not fair. I just come online and i dont even know what to do when i can't post, upvote, comment or do anything. The whales are supposed to be the ones put on hold while the minnows have a chance to grow.
Seriously its frustrating cause as far as i know, parents protect their babies and even starve for them, but thats not what am seeing here. This is just a case of the rich getting richer and the poor getting poorer. Its not supposed to be that way. Okay his particular post, i have had it in my draft since yesterday morning, but couldn't post it till now. Its just frustrating. And if i cant take it any more, i will just take a break till this issue is resolved.
Imagine if i wait for about two days and luckly i was able to make a post and see some mistakes on the post i have made, i can't evej quickly react to it and correct my mistake, instead i have to wait for two days for my RC to charge up before i can make a post. I can't even engage with my followers and reply their comments on my post because my RC and SP is low. Is it my fault that my SP is low? Is it my fault i am not a whale?
I wonder why everyone is acting cool with this and no one is talking about it. The only people i have seen concerned with how HF20 update has affected people are @dobartim and @crypto.piotr. It even says on top that the HF20 update is stable when all this is going on. I wonder if this is permanent, but if it is, it will surely be almost impossible for newbies and minnows to cope.
Yours
@paramimd