Thanks for the comment! Yes it appears that Steemit has updated the GUI for this. I will update my post soon!

Welcome!

Just as a heads up there is a method to do this without downloading the blocks, just some copy/pasta. It can be found here

Glad to see a fellow Seoulite here, cheers!

cheers!

thanks for the praise! Good luck to you as well!

thnx

done... it's in the post script, thnx

thanks much!

hah, you go first

Thanks for this! I've been updating and then having to do the the long wait for a sync...this will help enormously!

Answer: It looks like this is the only way, here is a post to help speed things up though

This response means that the new password matches your old password. You must put a new password (one that is different than your old password) into both fields. Hope this helps!

Question: When there is a hard fork and we have to update, do we need to re-clone and re-make all, or is there a more efficient way?

Thanks for the feedback...

Just some growing pains. It is beta after all. Good job to the dev team and management for a timely and well planned response.

Intel Core i7-6700HQ0 | 2.60GHz | 28.6 khps | 5 | 8GB | Ubuntu 16.04

Same issue, apparently sourceforge was down for a while, but all is well now!