504 Gateway Error on Steemit.com? Use Steemitstage.com!
Until a few minutes ago, Steemit.com was not available and many of you probably saw the following error: 504 Gateway error.
While Steemit.com at that time couldn't be accessed, the blockchain was still alive and well. Only the server behind Steemit.com called api.steemit.com that communicates with the blockchain was not responsive.
However, this fact shouldn't prevent you from browsing and interacting with your favourite social-media platform as there is an alternative to Steemit.com - just as good, called: Steemitstage.com
What is steemitstage.com?
Steemitstage.com is maintained by Steemit Inc. as well and used as the last-stage testing environment for Steemit.com before deployment in production (on Steemit.com).
There is, of course, another testing environment before Steemitstage.com, which is used to test changes which are not yet safe for the general public or could break.
That means, using Steemitstage.com should be just as save as using Steemit.com.
With that said: be very careful when using 3rd party Steem websites. Not every site is free of danger and there were a few cases where people spun up copies of Steemit.com just to get your private-keys!
api.steemitstage.com
And if you have a program which relies on api.steemit.com to communicate with the blockchain, then fear not:
You can simply use api.steemitstage.com. But be aware of possible problems that could arise at any time due to the nature of code-updates.
I hope this post helped to clarify the recent errors and gave you a better understanding of how Steemit.com works and what you can do if it's down.
And don't forget: Never stop steemin'!
Your witness,
@therealwolf
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Thank you for updating this info @therealwolf.
Already vote you as my witness..💪🏻😊
Thank you @zamifara! :)
My pleasure @therealwolf...
Thanks for updating us!
If only I knew this an hour ago lol. Thanks for the Information.
That's why I wrote the post, but now you know. Feel free to share the knowledge. :)
I tried resteeming but I keep getting the error 'Only top level posts can be reblogged' never had this issue before.
Thank you. Make sure that you're on the main-post and the url is not from a comment.
Yep that did the trick, thanks alot. Learning something new every day. Have a good day pal.
Glad I could help!
Therealwolf do you know why i can't vote for you as a witniss? If vote for you it asks me to fill in my password, but nothing happens. Already voted for 30 others but can't add you :S?
Hey @semtroneum,
thanks for wanting to vote! :)
You can vote for a maxmimum of 30 witness. If you want to vote for me, you have to unvote another witness first.
Yeah I get that from time to time.
They probably forgot to pay the bill. lol
I think you forgot to change the steemitstage links to steemitstage, it's all steemit only
Yes, you were right. Changed it. Thank you!
That's cool, I didn't know they maintained a staging environment.
It means it is a optional website of steemit.com @therealwolf thanks for update
Exactly - no problem!
api.steemit 504-ing. That's like a daily thing. 😂 Give us a different number for once. I like 200 😁
I'd prefer 200 as well :)
Thanks for update✌ upvoted
Thanks!
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