Steemit and a lot of other apps on the Steem blockchain have been down for well over 24 hours now and even though Steemit Inc has been Tweeting one or two times to tell us how things are going, there is a serious communications blackout, we actually don't have an idea of what is happening. The first Tweet was to tell us something was wrong, the second one was to tell us the error was fixed but it would take time for the system to be fully functional.

This comes after another blackout after the implementation of HF21 which just lasted for a short time and we were expecting some downtime, but immediately afterwards we had another hard fork, #22, this one supposedly because of a delegation problem. I take it this downtime we have now must be caused by another bug in the coding and we will now have hard fork 23.

We know things do happen over which the devs have very little control or even the capacity to foresee or detect and that is reasonable, everything that requires code is subject to problems, especially when that code becomes huge, so an event like this is not quite unexpected, of course I don't think anyone expected three hard forks (if today merits a hard fork) I think this is unprecedented.

Now what we need if when anD if this problem is fixed is a transparent report of what actually happened, because sometimes it seems we are taken for inept people who can be conned into believing anything. So I think right now what we need most is an explanation of what happened and that this explanation is 100% spot on.