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Splinterlands Offered Me Some Free Time. Hive Scaling Performance Updates From Blocktrades.

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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.

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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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