This post was made on the back of a user complaint.
I had made an assumption about multiple epochs considering 99 times out of 100 it's due to running out of passes.
The provider in question has decided to DM me to correct me about multiple epochs missed instead of addressing users directly to begin with.
It is a providers responsibility to address their users when things go wrong, which happens.
What's entirely not acceptable is the failure to address them to their users.
I frequently receive messages from users regarding the state of other providers.
I'd like to reiterate that if you feel like you cannot contact or communicate with your chosen provider then you probably shouldn't delegate to them.
Nearly 800 million delegated to a provider that has zero systems running for multiple epochs and zero community presence.
Currently awaiting "where are my rewards" message requests.
If the provider you're delegated to can't or won't answer basic questions but you expect other providers to answer those questions for them maybe there's two sides to the problem.
I don't know about anybody else but I spend a fair bit of time going over ftso data.
Anybody that has been doing so has likely noticed a growing trend where a large number of providers appear to be using the default example provider in the repo which clearly states it is not for production use.
This behavior has become so widespread that it is actually negatively affecting providers that have built their own custom pipelines because there's enough vote power distributed to the many providers running the example that the entire system actually leans in favor of these providers which leaves the rest shorthanded.
When the system leans towards a large group of providers holding a significant amount of accumulated vote power, this is effectively the same effect as malicious collusion whether or not that is these providers intent.
The situation has become widespread enough that it is currently and will continue to negatively impact the network.
Our $NEAR Validator just crossed 30,000 NEAR staked.
All fees collected from the validator go to FB DAO 🔥
Though small, the NEAR inflows are the first non Flare based inflow stream for the DAO!
Flare drops are gone forever.
It now matters more than ever to delegate to providers actually building and contributing to the network.
It's not enough to hit deploy, you need to put the work in.
People need to ask who am I delegating to and why.
You can’t convince me that DeFAI won’t be the thing that completely obscures the difficulty of using the dapp layer for crypto users.
From what I know, CandDaoJr is the first agent operating autonomously with real funds on @FlareNetworks ☀️
Excited to see where it goes 🔥