The steemit website was down for the majority of the day. I tried searching online to find some news on what happened. I heard a rumor that there was a denial of service attack but I have not been able to confirm that information.
I checked this morning at 10am and I was not able to view the site, approximately 20 minutes ago 8:20 pm I was able to get back on to the site.
I wrote an article yesterday that talked about some of the issues surrounding steemit signing up new users. This would be one of them. Website accessibility and confidence in service is a big factor in attracting new members.
Most of the bidbots are still offline and not taking any bids so right now no money flowing through the platform.
If anyone has any information on what caused today's outage please comment and share.