It's 17:30 UTC on the day of HF21.

I went to reply to a comment and make some upvotes via Steemit, but things went a bit awry. The interface threw errors at me every time I tried to make a transaction, saying I can only make a vote/comment every 3 seconds. Understandable, but it still said so after waiting an ample ten seconds.

I thought it was probably just my computer acting up, so I rebooted.

Once I got back online though, I found that the same thing was happening. I gave up on that comment, then went to the new tab to waste my time pretending to curate. To my great surprise the new tab only shows posts that are 2 hours old!

Is this normal instability on day zero of a hardfork?

I wasn't present at the exact time of HF20, though I did reel from the shock. Maybe this has nothing to do with the fork, and it's just a Steemit problem. Hopefully Steem isn't dead and I'll get to post this someday. If it does get out, did you notice anything strange or is it just me?

If it's a wider issue this is all very unfortunate because I just made a new account and tried to onboard someone. Nonfunctional is not an enticing first impression. Not to mention the people out there to whom Steem rewards are significant income.

Is this the end of Steem, or just the end of Steem as we know it? If this hits the chain the answer will be pretty obvious, and if it doesn't it will be too.

If you ever see this, cheers my fellow Steemian!

With all the DDoS attacks, constant hardforks, and drama I can't say it's been boring!