First of, all, accessibility and presence to the folks in the community was HIGH on my own list and a huge part of the platform of the witness team I am on for pollenation.

You got that point for sure right!

But counterpoint I also build tools and apps for the chain, and I do it for free, with no financial input from anyone (and my #80 witness isn't profitable or even paying for itself at all server-cost wise)

So I mean I get it, things would be nicer if they worked. That broken site is also one I used to use, but there are half a dozen other block explorers easily found by googling "Hive Block Explorer"

And when you build software for free, it's kind of not fair for the users to expect funded-software or paid-software-access level of uptimes.

Its more like, oh I whipped up this free thing for ya, oh its broke? Oh well, sorry dude.

But I see it in games I play too. Somebody spends 1000 hours making a cool FREE TO ACCESS custom game server, and suddenly when it goes down, people bitch about it. Look people, that was free, from our blood, sweat and tears. SO go QQ somewhere else on somebody else's totally free product you aren't paying for to play on or have built for you.

That said, when my community contributions go down, like HiveStreams.Live did for 9 hours during a DDoS attack two days ago, I stayed up all night for it, posted about being down, posted updates till back up again, etc. But that's because I care, not because anybody (and nobody has) gives me money to use it, build it or anything. They haven't - that 10000s of hours of my life was done for everyone for free.

So yeah, one guys free project is down, we absolutely cannot fault him for not fixing it at all, cause as for me? I never paid him a dime to provide it in the first place. It was nice to have, now its not there. On to the next free one!

So that's my counterpoint.