How ironic is this.

I just tried to post something related to bugs on the Steemit web site. I looked stupid and embarrassed once because of it.

This is what I tried to post:

https://steemit.com/steemit/@bix/how-i-voted-for-myself-4-times-you-can-try-too

So here is the irony. As I clicked on SUBMIT, it showed me this error:

Transaction broadcast error.

TypeError: Network request failed

I looked up online and there are so many people apparently looking for the answers about

"Transaction broadcast error. TypeError: Network request failed".

In fact, posts asking about what does it mean go as far back as last year.

It is also ironic that Steemit just upgraded its interface. As someone said in chat - "pig's lipstick". I posted about it too here:

https://steemit.com/steemit/@bix/steemit-new-look-still-same-old-errors

People ask "What does it mean" about this error... Well, if you are reading my post then I can tell you that in my opinion it means nothing in relation to your account or what you did or your post. It is simply a bug, based on my little very quick research. It is not related to your internet connection or browser and so on.

People have been battling it while doing pretty much anything on Steemit:

Making a Reply
Trying to respond to a Reply
Trying to Post
Trying to power up steem
Trying to power down
Converting
Reloading page

What I ran into today seems to be a little worse. While showing this "Transaction broadcast error" and then popping up a message "TypeError: Network request failed DISMISS" It actually DOES submit the transaction, whatever you were doing, despite error message. But the page remains as if nothing happened except for the error. It tells me that whatever the developers are doing they are not processing transactions properly (in the programming terms, like a proper roll back of failed transactions) and/or there is no proper error handling, in addition to obviously having some bugs.

So when i tried to post maybe a dozen of times, it turned out that 3 of them actually went through!

Then I've got votes on each of the tree posts which means that i probably cannot remove 2 excessive ones anymore.

Interesting to note, if the developers will see this - while duplicating my post 3 times the site added some random characters in front of the subject that made it in the URL of the 2 posts after the original one. maybe that is why their "duplicate check" failed.

Anyway, if you've got the same "Transaction broadcast error. TypeError: Network request failed" just relax and don't worry - IT IS NOT YOU!

And, as you keep trying - remember to check in another browser window or on another site or anywhere blockchain can be accessed to show your posts or transactions - those that showed as failed might actually show up as successfully posted, as happened to me.

Maybe it is just because Halloween is coming? lol

Happy Steeming everyone :-)

@bix

habituallyhannah