Folks,

Some of you may have noticed strange behavior on Steemd. Maybe you reached this error page:

Intermittently, I have been able to connect but strangely the last entries are from 6 days ago.

It doesn't appear limited to Steemd nodes, however. So, those of you that know me, know that I run regular Steem Python scripts for projects. Yesterday, thought things were going to be business as usual but ran into some funkiness trying to pull post data.

Here is an example of using default nodes:

>>> p = Post('@haejin/ethereum-eth-breakout-in-macd-price-to-follow')

And, using the API.steemit.com and @gtg's nodes, I received the following:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "", line 1, in <module>
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/steem/post.py", line 51, in init
    self.refresh()
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/steem/post.py", line 62, in refresh
    raise PostDoesNotExist("Post does not exist: %s" % self.identifier)
steembase.exceptions.PostDoesNotExist: Post does not exist: @haejin/ethereum-eth-breakout-in-macd-price-to-follow 

I finally switched to the 'https://rpc.buildteam.io/' node and my script is purring like a kitten. Hopefully, this helps someone else out but I am also interested if anybody has insight about the issue.

Thanks for reading!