As I was posting my regular market snapshot, I spotted a slight inconsistency in the way the post metadata was shown, specifically the "time since the publishing" value. Instead of seeing the standard "2 seconds ago", I saw something like: "in 1 minute".
See the difference? It's like the post is actually due to be published in 1 minute.
Strange, huh?
I started to look at the comments too and here's what I saw:
The post was published 1 minute ago, but the first comment appears to be due in 1 minute. It's like although it's there, and I can read it, it's not really there.
I waited 1 minute, and here's how the comments panel looked like:
After 1 minute, the first comment was shown as published 2 seconds ago, while the next one is waiting in an invisible queue to be public in 31 seconds.
It is my understanding that this means the Steemit.com (Condenser) is talking to the blockchain in a different way:
- if a transaction is present in (or before) the last irreversible block, it is shown in the past.
- if a transaction is present in a block after the last irreversible block (according to the current node interrogated by the UI) it is shown as being due in a time interval equal to the time from the last irreversible block.
I suspect this is due to the increase in the witness numbers and / or the hivemind development (which is the code name for communities). I didn't look at the code yet, but I plan to dig in during the weekend and we'll keep you posted if I see something supporting this assumption.
All in all, this shows again that Steemit is not your regular, monolithic, centralized and controlled social media website, but it is ruled by a decentralized consensus, which, in this case, requires around 1 minute to synchronize across all block producers.
Hence, the importance of having consistent, regular witnesses.
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