Following an unexpected hard fork of the CoinDesk news blockchain today, the much-lauded industry news site continues to experience website issues, users report. At press time, CoinDesk readers were experiencing varying text sizes on the pages of articles as a result of being directed to one of at least two separate histories of the CoinDesk news blockchain.
Since the issues began , a number of competing development efforts have emerged in an attempt to address the situation at CoinDesk, with new technological solutions including CoinDesk Supreme, CoinDesk Wild Cherry, CoinDesk with Lime, CoinDesk Medium Rare and Dr CoinDesk.
At press time, CoinDesk Turbo and CoinDesk Smooth had emerged as the efforts with perhaps the most traction, according to independent analytics provided to CoinDesk.
CoinDesk Smooth, the oldest of the two efforts, representing an increasingly dwindling number of the open-source community’s developers over controversy that CoinDesk Editor and CoinDesk Smooth chief scientist Pete Rizzo had been effectively hiding a massive fortune in rizzocoins, the native token on the CoinDesk newschain.
Likewise, long-time CoinDesk contributor Stan Higgins had emerged as the leader of separate faction, CoinDesk Turbo, which is in the midst of attempting to convince CoinDesk readers to upgrade their software to increase the size of text on the website.
At press time, some were tweeting their support for their preferred software implementation, while others sought to position it as a plot to undermine the news agency. . @coindesk for the record, I add my name to the list of signatories supporting CoinDesk Smooth — Wong Joon Ian (@joonian) April 1, 2016 @newsbtc claims responsibility for CoinDesk hard fork, says plot ‘years in making’ https://t.co/lLpsrNyulS — CoinDesk (@coindesk) April 1, 2016 The ‘text size’ controversy had been ongoing for months following the decision of former CoinDesk contributor Daniel Cawrey to publicly leave the CoinDesk project, […]
