Great But Vexing Technology

I've been spending a fair bit of time pondering on some technical issues that I've been having and sadly it hasn't led to many good results!

Like so many of us in the world, I often use my phone to do a number of things. For me, one of those things is using my phone to do engagement on Hive while I am waiting for my son to fall asleep and I can get to writing some posts or do other things for the Hive ecosystem here. This means that I want to get on and off the platform in a pretty quick manner. Unfortunately though I've been running into some technical issues and it's been quite vexing!

I spend my adult professional life working in an IT world, as so many of us do so I know that there are so many complexities (pun intended :DDDD) when it comes to software, development and the code that is underlying so many of the things that we use and take advantage of today. I feeeeeeeel for the process more than you would know! At the same time though.. I am still a victim of what I think is frustration at inconvenience and how that changes our habits.

I grew up and remember quite well the days of the dial-up internet and having to listen to the horrendous beeping and screeching of our modems connecting to the internet. Those were tough times but they were also glorious and fucking incredible! I vividly remember how amazing it was to connect to the internet and load a website, how unbelievable that was! We also spent time gaming at my friends house on a Local Area Network, or LAN. A LAN is something that so many people these days have absolutely no idea what it is or how incredibly powerful it was to be able to do that.

Having that background, I can absolutely appreciate the changes that have taken place over the years and how we become desensitized to how much things have changed and how far we've come. I know I can certainly think of how I've become numb to some of the improvements as we get to enjoy those on a daily basis!

Hive Keychain, one of the most prolific and important development and apps that people use both on their phone and on their computers, has been such a mainstay of the ecosystem that it is almost second nature to so many of us to use it for every single day and interaction we have. That also means that when we have challenges with it, it becomes a little difficult to deal with! The Keychain team is doing absolutely the best they can but as things drag on for weeks or months, it becomes difficult to deal with..

I've been working with an issue where my mobile Keychain app takes 2-3 minutes to load the browser and I can't for the life of me figure out why. I'm usually pretty good at figuring out why these annoying things happen and this one has been vexing and challenging me for a while. I was thinking for a while it was because I was using two accounts on the app but for a while I was not. I was still getting the lag in response time. I would be logged into PeakD on one browser page and Ecency on the other with the same account with a lag in loading the pages. I thought this was because I was using PeakD on my main account here and Ecency with my Leo account but I switched that and removed that variable but still have the same issue. Now I'm to the point where I am trying to close all browser tabs and leave the app closed to see if that makes any difference or improvement in it.

I know that these things are miniscule problems in the grand scheme of things but at the same time, they are things that we deal with on a daily basis so we have to figure out what's going on. I am one who sees a problem and tries to work with the resources to identify the root cause if possible and try to offer a solution. I get enough of the people who just report problems and offer no help or solutions on a daily and weekly basis lol so I make sure to try and contribute to the resolution of it instead of just add to the problem! I'm hopeful that we can figure out the root cause of this one and improve the app for all of the mobile users - this is one that causes me quite a bit of annoyance on a daily basis.

I do want to also clarify that some days, sometimes days in a row, the thing works PERFECTLY fine hahaha. That's what makes it even more difficult and annoying :D.