Over the last few months, I find myself getting more and more frustrated with Hive-Engine and/or TribalDex.

This mostly has to do with the extremely slow response times, as well as the frequent incompletely loaded pages I encounter.

The wheel goes round and round...

I'm sure there are those out there who would look at that and say "well, just file a help ticket." But I don't think this is about help requests for a specific issue, this is about a deeper infrastructure level problem.

While I don't know anything specific about programming or blockchain technology, this all looks to me very much like there are some unresponsive servers among the witnesses and what I'm actually waiting for is refreshing enough times that the next in the request line is a functioning server.

What gives?

But the request takes a really long time to "roll over" to a node that sends back a response.

I remember this from a ways back where I was using a different platform to access the underlying Hive-Engine chain, which allowed you to see which node was being accessed. And there were invariably times when one or two certain names showed up and I just knew the connection would hang more or less forever before auto-switching to another and I would just have to keep refreshing and refreshing until a different node was chosen.

Incomplete picture...

So I suspect that there are a number of those who are running Hive-Engine witnesses who are either not up to date or have even forgotten that they are part of the program and have not updated in a long time.

Of course, the possibility also exists that there is some kind of problem in the part of the process that should route a request to a working server rather than servers in some particular rotation. I just don't know

As a user, I find this extraordinarily frustrating, and I wish somebody would actually do something about it!

Alas, sadly, I expect this is like much of Hive's broader underbelly in that it is just kind of "slightly neglected" and decaying.

Does anybody actually know what's going on?

Till the next one, thanks for stopping by!

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Curator Cat, October 19th, 2026