The Blurt blockchain has become almost completely unusable for me, and I'm concerned about my content and tokens.
That's similar to what often comes up, when I try to view the blockchain using the official frontend, Blurt.Blog. It has been happening for months now.
Normally, I would never use Blurt.Blog because it isn't as censorship-resistant as I prefer, but the other two main frontends (BeBlurt and BlurtLatam) both also have glitches that prevent me (and many other users) from using them. I can log in, but can't do anything.
So we're forced to use a frontend that in some cases we'd rather not use, AND which is often just completely down. Usually along with the wallet, and access to funds.
The downtime has increased to about one third of the times I try to use the blockchain. That means my time spent creating and curating content is also down by a huge amount. That means my income/growth is down by a huge amount.
Some problems on Blurt.blog have been around for a long time, like rewards being difficult and glitchy to claim:
Other problems are new, many of them appearing along with the latest upgrade (which brought about the community tab).
That's on Blurt.blog, and I don't know what it means, but it was happening when I was trying to vote on a post.
I notice that when votes do work, they don't automatically increase the total pending payout anymore. Now, you have to refresh the page in order to see the effect of your vote. Why all the downgrades?
The downgrades, the glitches, and the complete outages are getting in the way of user experience, holding back growth, and making investors nervous. There are some partial workarounds for those who have the technical savvy, but wouldn't it be better if it just worked properly most of the time?
I would much rather prefer to be spending my time creating content, curating, and working on ways to improve and promote this blockchain. Instead, I'm dealing with this major loss of efficiency, and frequent inability to access the blockchain or funds.
Let's see if I can get this to go through.
DRutter
We encountered same problem, I’m using blurt.blog. Claiming rewards took some time and if not an error and the history part in wallet would take sometime to appear. Also in the notifications part, it looked a bit different from before.
I notice that there is no response to my concerns. If I have a compliment, it will be heard. But if I have a complaint, it is ignored. This makes me feel as though my investment here isn't important or appreciated, and perhaps that I should do what many in the Blurt insiders do - earn BLURT and sell it immediately. Be a drain on the BLURT economy - instead of holding tokens and earning more, always flooding the market with them. Why help build, when it isn't acknowledged, and my concerns aren't heard? Why not do as they do, and take what I can get from the community instead?
...if you were being cynical about it, you could almost say it looks very similar to a ponzi scheme when it's coming to a close (no communications, lack of function of 'the company')...
If it is a ponzi - it's a good one.
Investors are unable to withdraw their funds without crashing there own token value as they sell !
PLUS....The more you have in it, the less you can do anything about your own position...
hmmm....
On the upside - my website is now fully funded for the next 12 months of operations!
You would be very surprised (shocked maybe) to see who have put their money into the enterprise (support now for future payouts later - if it is successful).
....Almost like some 'large stakeholders' of blurt really know the difference between a legit business model and the intent to do well via merit and hard work, and a DPoS socialist ponzi-eqsue scam....
(Obviously, ethics and morals prevent me from ever disclosing any of the individuals)
Having your own website is so... 90s.
Which is one reason I love it.
https://blurtlatam.intinte.org/blurtpolitics/@lucylin/5hrhma-my-reply-to-drutter