reiver,
@reiver@mastodon.social avatar

There is a fork of Mastodon that has a bunch of features I know many people wish Mastodon had:

Ecko
https://joinecko.com/

• longer posts,
• more poll choices,
• favicon update from web console,
• markdown support,

...

I wonder if it is a soft-fork or a hard-fork. I.e., are they still pulling in all the latest Mastodon code.

melroy,
@melroy@mastodon.melroy.org avatar

@reiver @weex You inspired me! I will fork kbin and using C4 as well.

vintprox,
@vintprox@techhub.social avatar

@melroy @reiver @weex

Didn't know about C4. (Sounds like a BOMB, careful! 😂)

What migration steps are presumed and why not adopt changes in the upstream Kbin?

melroy,
@melroy@mastodon.melroy.org avatar

@vintprox @reiver @weex I'm not allowed to merge PRs upstream from Ernest. C4 will bring control back to all contributors.

melroy,
@melroy@mastodon.melroy.org avatar

@vintprox @reiver @weex Regarding migration steps, we will see. It's just based on kbin, so migration would a very easy switch, with the same requirements.

vintprox,
@vintprox@techhub.social avatar

@melroy @reiver @weex

Yeah, all that sounds sweet and tidy at the first glance. Upon another glance, there are missing URLs and files. Hope the switch won't cause any such hiccups. 🙌

melroy,
@melroy@mastodon.melroy.org avatar

@vintprox sorry what do you mean missing files or urls? Sure we need to have another place for webplate and we need to think about documentation.

vintprox,
@vintprox@techhub.social avatar

@melroy It's a hypothetical scenario in which you replace Kbin with C4, but previously working links are no more (404 Not Found). It damages SEO and UX for external guests.

But I suppose you're planning to open a completely separate instance and still maintain kbin.melroy.org?

melroy,
@melroy@mastodon.melroy.org avatar

@vintprox more info about c4 wow: https://magicstone.dev/why-c4/

melroy,
@melroy@mastodon.melroy.org avatar

@vintprox ow yes. I will keep kbin.melroy.org for now as domain to avoid issues.

melroy, (edited )
@melroy@mastodon.melroy.org avatar

@vintprox c4 is not the name of the project. C4 is a wow. Anyhow, the fork will be backwards compatible. We shouldn't break links or activitypub in any way.

melroy,
@melroy@mastodon.melroy.org avatar

@vintprox kbin.melroy.org will be running this version of the fork eventually. But you won't even notice it, unless we have more features than the slow development of kbin.

vintprox,
@vintprox@techhub.social avatar

@melroy That clears up things and gives confidence :)

melroy, (edited )
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melroy,
@melroy@mastodon.melroy.org avatar

@vintprox Fun fact, I redirect mbin.melroy.org now to kbin.melroy.org: https://mbin.melroy.org

melroy,
@melroy@mastodon.melroy.org avatar

@weex @laravista Ps. I will also upgrade to Ecko on my mastodon.melroy.org instance! I'm sick of Mastodon not supporting markdown and longer posts, let's go Ecko! It will have no down-sides for the users, we just have more features.

laravista,

@melroy @weex 😮 Let me try...

melroy,
@melroy@mastodon.melroy.org avatar

@reiver @weex follow up. The fork is in place and it's seem like a success already. This model based on trust is basically an experiment, let's see how it evolves. See: https://github.com/MbinOrg/mbin

troed,
@troed@sangberg.se avatar

@melroy @reiver @weex Is it compatible with any mobile clients? On iOS I haven't been able to find a single one that works with fedia.io (kbin). Will happily switch server if that now works :(

melroy, (edited )
@melroy@mastodon.melroy.org avatar

@troed @reiver @weex well there is an Api. See for example the swagger docs https://kbin.melroy.org/api/docs (despite the kbin name, it's running the mbin fork). I know that there is a developer group busy creating a native app called Artemis: https://matrix.to/#/

Hopefully this will work soon.

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