has stopped
In november 2017 I () had published the initial "invention post" regarding the UserAuthority algorithm, after which about a half year later I got into contact with
to develop the UA code. End 2018 the
account & algorithmic curation began, which became, immediately after its launch, the fastest growing account in terms of individual delegators.
has always been in control of & running the
servers.
I haven't had contact with for quite some time, although I've regularly tried to contact him via Discord DMs, but no reply came back, although he kept the
servers going (it has been algorithmically voting continuously, despite me not getting in touch with
. In case of questions from the community, I (
) have been trying to help everybody as good as I could, despite not having access to said servers myself.
In light of the recent events of the Hive fork, I have tried to again get into touch with , in a final attempt to notify him about Hive and possible server re-configurations regarding
. I still hadn't heard back from him.
The past few days, since the Hive fork is active, I saw (of course) that the servers stopped functioning, both on the Steem and the Hive blockchain.
So herewith I announce that
has stopped, because I don't have access to said servers myself, and I haven't heard from
.
Please UN-DELEGATE to
, bot on Hive and on the Steem blockchain. I want to personally thank everybody that has been delegating to
until now / or has been at some point in the past.
In case anybody else likes to continue with the service, you can find (parts of) the open source code of UA in
's well-known GitHub-repository, and in case you'd also like to continue with the
account name, then you can contact me (
) on Discord.
I hope everybody understands, I don't want to cause any confusion.
Thanks you, and Steem + Hive/Buzz on!