Splinterlands Offered Me Some Free Time. Hive Scaling Performance Updates From Blocktrades.
Splinterlands Devs Dealing with Parabolic Growth Scaling Issues
If you play Splinterlands regularly, you know ranked battles are currently paused. More growing pains... I think it's safe to say we entered parabolic growth domain for the leading game on the Hive blockchain.
While some players may be frustrated because they didn't reach their targeted league before the issues started to appear at the end of season, and the maintenance mode was switched on, I am among those who don't have this problem. I've hit my target in the morning, my time: CL III. Even though at the beginning of the season I planned for a league higher, it appears the competition is fierce nowadays and I'm fine with reaching Champions League at all.
But I have another "problem". What to do with all the free time Splinterlands just unblocked for me, temporarily? :)
Hive Core Devs Meeting Reveal Scaling Performance Updates
Here's something that I did, among other things. I listened to the latest Hive core developers meeting, something I don't always do (in which case I just read through the text abstract @howo provides).
During the devs meeting (6m20s), blocktrades mentioned that the small optimizations which were made throughout the ecosystem recently had a significant measurable impact on performance on several indicators they tracked. That was practically visible with the naked eye on many of the front-ends, which couldn't be anything but pleasing for all users. But that also means that the Hive blockchain is ready to scale by a significant amount from here.
Web Traffic Increased 400% on Hive.Blog in a Few Months
Something else that blocktrades team measured was the web traffic hitting the hive.blog interface. Dan (i.e. blocktrades) said the web traffic has increased over 400% in the past few months without affecting the servers noticeably. He continued that some of that traffic comes from search bots, and assumes that's because we started to have more organic traffic and the search bots became more interested in our content as a consequence.
The other possibility I wouldn't neglect is that some of the regular posters on Hive (specifically on Leofinance, but maybe generally) became more SEO-aware and writing with the intent of making the content easier to 'understand' and categorize by the search bots. That can be a reason for an increase attention from search bots regarding content on Hive.
Anyway, a 4x web traffic increase on hive.blog on the course of a few months is something to make note of. That, of course, doesn't measure the web traffic going through peakd, ecency, leofinance and all the other tribe interfaces. It would be interesting to see how they are doing. But not as a rank evolution through a ranking service such as Alexa, where data is pulled from a select group of users who have installed their widget.
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Oh man, time for battle again! I am in Bronze 2 and have to speed up if I want to get to Champions League next month 😁. Just need a few legendary cards.
Are they opened yet? The ranked battles? I haven't seen any announcements.
Yeah, it's quite a leap from bronze to CL. In my first few months of SL, I never thought I'd go above gold. Ever. Then diamond came. Then CL. It was easier to jump from diamond to CL than from gold to diamond, actually.
But a skilled player with the right cards can go to CL quite easily, I suppose.
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Good one! Sometimes one can feel like smashing the keyboard, but that's a bit... extreme. :D
Truth is there is plenty to do in the garden and yard, but with these heatwaves I've grown accustomed to only to them in the morning.
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Sharing to external social media sites have also increased over the months
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That is true. Too bad about the shadow banning.
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For how long are you playing the game and how many hours a day?
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Since 2018, but not really the beginning. I didn't see "the light" for a few months.
It varies. Depends how successful I am and how quickly I make up the teams and watch the fights (because I usually do that, although I often can predict the outcome of the battle by seeing the teams at first glance), depends if I get frustrated or not (if I do, it takes longer, because I start making stupid mistakes). Depends on ECR (energy capture rate, a sort of voting mana on Hive). Probably minimum 1 hour. Maximum depends on all those factors.
There's also the renting of cards, which I don't watch/update religiously like others do, but it can take a significant amount of time.
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