Optimist people (i am not one) don't see the problem, see opportunities, there has been a lot of recent talk about how fragile the site seems to be to the DDOS attacks we have been suffering lately.
GreyCoder
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This has shown to some of us in the witness channel the weak link of the block chain, the simgle point of failure, now there are already alternatives to surf the STEEM block chain, the is www.busy.org ( 
(I'm sure there are afew more i have not discovered yet)
If we see it as a problem...
We have not understood. It is a call for action to the community to find and create solutions.
Nexion did, there are a lot of french posts already explaining how to run a local copy of condenser.
Single Point of Failure | Elise Sullivan
The nature of steemit blockchain empowers users, witnesses and everyone to share and work together towards evolution of the platform, if the network is stronger, the human links are stronger, the goals become within reach...
The main issue i see with having steemit.com clones sprouting everywhere is Security we know users for the most part have not yet grasped the proper use of the different keys to acces and sign transactions (Hell osme are still not clear to me)
But why do we bring our keep our money in STEEM ? Isn't it because of TRUST ?
So maybe we need to sit down as a collective and brainstorm what would be the best approach to achieve proper sustainable decentralization, not start a competition to see who manages the best PR campaign to drive users to their new steem user interface / clone, but instead work together to propose a decentralized model of access.
I'm sure that with the growth in user base, steem inc has seen their server needs grow exponentially, all the same we who make scripts have seen the slowing down of the RPC nodes.
If we all join efforts, share ideas and distribute the load we might find a solution that will make the experience better for everyone and brings global benefit and profit
The other day speaking with 
As and afterthought how many RPC nodes do we have ?
How many 32GB Witness nodes do we have?
What we need the most?
RPCs or another Witness with 12Gb of ram buried down the 200 position (or in the 50)?
RPC node ready servers cost about 4 times the cost of a decent 32Gb, but maybe it is time for some witness to ditch the cost of running a small node on their own and aggregate forces to pay for renting a proper server and we start running more of them.
But then again... TRUST is an issue...
Tell you what, I'm ready to ditch my 32Gb server which is slowly climbing the ladder and trust whoever wants to associate to run a full RPC with having the brain key and managing it.
Let's use the #discussion Tag
This post is applying @timcliff's suggestion. If you missed his post, please check it here:
Hey Steemains - Let's start a #discussion!.
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