Industry Speaks Out As CoinDesk's Text Size Turmoil Continues
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,....
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Sources close to CoinDesk confirm that at 9:00am GMT, the website’s proprietary news blockchain, the distributed, immutable record of its news coverage, experienced a sudden, controversial hard fork resulting in two separate and irreconcilable versions of its news history. From this time forward, readers have reported unexpected increases in the size of the CoinDesk’s text, to the point where certain articles experience wildly fluctuating text sizes. However, for many observers of the website, the split is not unexpected, as it follows a months-long debate in the once-lauded organization....
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