Since the site has been down for all but a few hours of the last week, I’ve really wanted somewhere I can get a little information about what’s going on.
Is there a mastodon dev account, or an off-site blog or even just a community on Lemmy?
We can see Ernest’s posts on Mastadon but he hasn’t posted anything in a couple months.
Didn’t he have some sort of health issues a while back? I hope he’s okay, and that includes not being overwhelmed with growth and burnout. Is he also employed? Need family and rest time, sometimes. RL takes precedence.
ETA: it’s possible malicious actors gained control. I’m not saying that’s what happened, I’m saying it’s possible.
No, there’s no other communication avenue. Ernest posts to his kbin account.
I tried logging in on my main account but Kbin wouldnt let me if I used my username it said invalid credentials and if I used my email it just brought up the error 50 thing. I made Matrix space so kbin users can still talk to each other when it is down. #kbin.social:matrix.org
Also Ernest this is a temporary account I don’t mind if it gets deleted.Thanks for doing this. It won’t let me upvote you.
I started considering hosting my own instance for private or limited use. Any thoughts?
It can be very expensive in terms of disk space usage.
https://codeberg.org/Kbin/kbin-core/issues/1383#issuecomment-1999046
i had to post this on a local account because kbin.social federation is now > 3 day behind
my instance has open signups with a similar interface using mbin; https://moist.catsweat.com if anyone wants a backup
Wait there is already a matrix room? https://matrix.to/#/#kbin:matrix.org Should I delete the one I made and just use that?
Thank you, it’s the only news from the boss we got lately… wonder how much of the instance management will be handed over.
i first went to https://kbin.pub (the site for the software itself), nothing posted there so i followed the link to the repo to check open issues. saw it was being addressed, so i just used a lemmy instance in the interim.
That other site slash r slash redditalternatives
For the last two weeks, I was able to get only like 10% of the time onto kbin. Maybe even a month. The other times it is “upgrading infrastructure over the next few days” message. I see nothing anywhere explaining what is going on. I finding myself going back to Reddit….
I’ve been using https://fedia.io/ while kbin has been down. It runs on mbin which is a fork of kbin. If kbin comes back properly I’ll quite probably move back, either way it’s good to have options.
Can’t upvote or boost you, we’ll see if I can reply, because I also want updates.
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