Does your witness vote still count ?

You may wonder why i ask , well i started a witness myself and i guess when you only post you tend to lose the intrest of what a witness does and what happend to your vote.

After all you have 30 votes that you can use , and once you have done that you can forget all about it , or not ?
It turns out that a lot of people think that way or are no longer active on Hive.

And it's already hard to pick if you see hardly any difference... It's just like picking buttons in a button store they al do the same in the end .
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Because i started my own witness i was wondering how i was doing in the ranks , still need to do my first block but , I was shocked about the amount witness servers that have been offline for more then 3 months and still get votes from people .

If you go to https://peakd.com/me/witnesses

and select in the filters on the right Disabled/Stale you will see something like this :

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If you happen to see a blue V mark at the end of a row that means that you are voting for a dead witness and your vote is lost .
To double check if the witness is indeed offline check the column Last Block, some might show a 0 like in the picture below , the are either new or have just upgraded the witness for the new Hardfork that is coming on 19 November 2025
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And as soon as my witness received it's first block my server version will also show 1.28.3 ready for the hardfork .

You can actualy already see if a witness is ready for the Hardfork or not .

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The top row with 1.28.3 is ready for the hardfork , the witness with a red dot is not active last block done a year ago and still has 4.5 miljon HP votes ..... wasted .

If you want to know more about the changes for hive in the coming hardfork i sugest you read the post from mr Hive account@detlev
you can find his post here -> Hardfork post