Let me first unequivocally state this is not an issue with the "More Info" add-on; at least, not as a far as I know. By all means, consider what is written below as simply "what seems to be working right now." My data below is of a small sample size; it could all be coincidence. If anyone has looked into this and knows more, please educate us in the comments.
However, I spent a good deal of the morning attempting to discern why Steemit was still eating my posts, comments and votes at an approximately 60% rate (ie. only 40% made it through).
My current hypothesis, after running a number of traceroutes on websites of various size today, is that Steemit is still slower (to what degree, I cannot say) since the DDoS attacks the last two weeks.
Many hops time-out to Steemit.com, no problem with Google.com
I'm running low on explanations, but I do have results. Disabling my Steemit "More Info" add-on improved performance drastically and immediately.
Votes and comments that were routinely hanging for 10-30 seconds before possibly disappearing before, were now submitting in 2-4 seconds at a much higher success rate.
My vote and comment submission rate dropped quickly from 60% failure to 7.1% (1/14).
Again, I do not think this is anything wrong with the extension, and indeed I am saddened I have to go without it temporarily.
However, if you are experiencing these issues (as many others also are in the chat), and you are using this extension, you might want to try disabling it via the add-on menu.
I suspect the reason this can help is because the More Info extension must be pulling additional data from the Steemit site / Steem block-chain, in order to update you in real time on things like your voting value, etc. This must add additional load to connection with Steemit.com that are already straining from current load. I'm open to a better explanation, if anybody has one.
If you haven't checked out the mod yet, do so here.
If anyone else is able to shed further light on this issue, or provide their own traceroute results, please do so in the comments!
If you have any additions or errata for this post, please let me know! I will see that they are voted to the top of the comments, and will make the appropriate edits (if possible).
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