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ive been wondering when kbin.social would finally fall over.
its clearly been un-managed for quite awhile... it was only a matter of time before some resource use went outside scope.
im sad about kbin dying. but i am happy the mbin guys have not only picked up the mantle, but just released another milestone.
Yeah Mbin is cool. I also like the ui of kbin when it is working. This is not the first time it has been down for a few days so I think it could come back online. Though I have not seen any communication involving it going down this time.
Wait, kbin.social is permanently dead?
it really seems that way. its been down almost a week... and not in a 'were working on it' mode.
Good ol' disappointing kbin.social lol
I think it has potential though not in its current state with the spam and now not being able to even use it.
Same. I run SquaredCircle (the fediverses main wrestling community) which was started on kbin.social back when the Reddit protests occurred and 5-6mo ago we had to move the whole community from kbin to lemmy.zip cause the frequent errors (when posting, upvoting, boosting, fucking browsing, etc) were basically driving us insane (and given the community is based around timely news and discussion threads it basically kills it.
Doesn't help that every 2-4 months Ernest pops up and goes "I'm still here and working, all is well!!" and then disappears for another 2-4 months, rinse repeat. Won't blame the guy for a failing marriage and health issues but I will blame the guy for not having other people fucking develop the shit too.
Squaredcircle? I remember seeing that a bit on kbin a few months back. I assume the name has to do with the ring being a square shape?
Bingo!
Nice do you run the community yourself or... is it a tag team.
*ba dum tsh*
(But to actually answer, myself, and another mod. I do 99% of the news and discussion thread posting since I got the time to and we're still small [just 230 people as of right now, but growing].)
230 is still a pretty healthy size though.
I left kbin because it was never working :(
Yeah the error 50 use to be really common when trying to do certain things like upvote or comment. At the moment just visiting the site brings up that error.
I almost went the entire weekend without shitposting. Wish Ernest had his shit together.
A hope which at this point should be abandoned, sadly.
Wish the guy well, but it's very clear he isn't cut out for admining a site at this point.
Yep, I'm not holding my breath on it coming back up any time soon.
It is... I used a backup last year during the big grow when .world was down a lot. What else are you doing today? It's Monday morning here. When are you?
AEST so 10:26pm.
Hah. That sucks. I reluctantly left kbin.social a few months back, they never actually deleted my account after I requested deletion. I sometimes log back in just to check.
Kinda sad that Ernest killed it (is killing it?) by being such a control freak on top of all of his current personal issues.
Yeah same exact problem. Ernest doesn't owe me anything but I was done with the empty promises and could see the writing on the wall. Kbin.social is not cut out for the long run. I doubt it'll be around much longer at all.
That's a good way to start a Monday morning
its actually been down for at least two days so maybe sometime on saturday it went down? Also its night time here in aus.
Welcome!
Don't you hate when that happens? Pictures are currently busted on my instance and the admin, while a pretty cool person I think, has been ominously quiet about it... 😅
Have we (Lemmy or the fediverse in general) ever landed on a "best practices" with respect to migrating accounts and one's old content? Presumably if your instance goes down, any of your content that ever federated out exists somewhere or other, right? So could you just put a link in your profile, that leads to your previous account, but as seen through some (still existing) instance? Like: lemmy.b/u/old_account@lemmy.a
I guess that only works if by some chance instance b happened to catch EVERY post you made, which would require at least one person on b being subscribed to each community you ever posted in, right?
I haven't heard of any best practices regarding migrating accounts other than just make a new account and start over. Apps that log you into lemmy/kbin/mbin etc might try and solve that by having all your old posts get mirrored to an instance on your new account but it would have to be in a way that does not spam the other instances version of the community the posts were shared to. I guess if you use a timestamp on posts you could have the migrated posts appear before the newer ones after migrating?
I guess that only works if by some chance instance b happened to catch EVERY post you made, which would require at least one person on b being subscribed to each community you ever posted in, right?
Yes, but if you use a popular instance, chances are high that they have every community you posted to