I have a beginner (or idiot?) question, does Steem store articles in their blockchain or in an SQL database?
on the blockchain
To clarify, the text of articles and comments is on the blockchain. Any embedded media is stored as links. This makes the storage requirements not absurd, as most times the text itself is fairly small. In theory it is highly compressible too, though I'm not sure if the current implementation does that.
Except the storage requirements, the RAM requirements can easily become a problem... Currently it eats huge chunk of RAM on my machine (around 8Gb), and it grows fast lately! It is still bearable, but with this kind of grow rate, running a daemon could become not affordable for a regular user PC soon. I indeed see this a big potential problem. Do you know if anything is done to address this?
You can run in low-memory mode, which reduces memory requirements to about 2 GB currently. Add -DLOW_MEMORY_NODE=ON -DENABLE_CONTENT_PATCHING=OFF to cmake when building it. Also disable the account_history_plugin (in config file) unless you need it.
Over time it is definitely going to require high end hardware to run a node. Most users (if not using the web site) will need to be using remote nodes with thin clients.
When will you guys have invites back up to using slack steemit as had an account and now longer have due to the attack that happened a while back and cant seem to find anywhere or info i you guys going to have invites back up to going slack channel. Hoping devs or core team can help thx.
chat has been moved from slack to rocket chat:
https://steemit.chat