Yesterday Steemit.com and Busy.org were a bit sluggish.
I had lunch with our 
He said, there was either something wrong with the API or with the full node(s) that is being used by these frontends.
The blockchain was never in danger and all your funds and data are fine.
Many noticed that communication with the blockchain was working perfectly through www.steemitstage.com proving the blockchain was fine. It uses a different API or full node.
With Steemify we solved this problem of not being able to connect to a full node with Nozzle.
It will basically cycle through different entry points until it finds one that it can use to connect to the blockchain.
What is Nozzle?
Nozzle is a free, opensource, low-level steemd RPC client, a Python library for the Steem Blockchain. It aims to allow developers to communicate with the Steem blockchain in a reliable way.
Functionality:
- Auto retries and failover to backup nodes.
- Clean error handling.
- Customizable retries and timeouts.
get it here
I am a witness with our developer group for the Steem blockchain. If you want to support us I would appreciate your vote here.
We build Steemify a notification app for your Steemit account for iOS.
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