Steem: Please consider lowering the root post lockout time
Right now there is a 5 minute lockout period between root posts. I've been working on a twitter clone on top of steem but five minutes feels too long for that use case and its inhibiting progress. This limitation is forcing me to consider doing tricks with the api like the Mangosteen project did and have all user content as comments and a known root post.
There is clearly demand for a blockchain based twitter system (referring to assange's tweets). Please consider relaxing this constraint.
trashhalo
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I cannot make any promises, but we are open to such a change. Filling this in the backlog so that it does not get lost.
mvandeberg
on 10 Oct 2017
+1 - I didn't know about this constraint. I think we need better per-user rate limiting in general before doing something like this, though - a user should clearly be able to make 10-20 posts in a minute, but should not be able to make 2 posts every minute for 2 hours. A per-user rate limiting bucket should be designed.
sneak
on 10 Oct 2017
Bumping. Steem will need this change for optimal comments widget.
-Ned
realnedscott
on 13 Mar 2018
In 0.20.0 the comment interval has been reduced to 3 seconds, but the root comment interval is still 5 minutes. If this satisfies your requirements, please close. Otherwise it will remain in our backlog for consideration in a future hardfork.
mvandeberg
on 13 Sep 2018
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+1 - I didn't know about this constraint. I think we need better per-user rate limiting in general before doing something like this, though - a user should clearly be able to make 10-20 posts in a minute, but should not be able to make 2 posts every minute for 2 hours. A per-user rate limiting bucket should be designed.