kbin may be done. Backup plan is mbin at fedia.io

FartsWithAnAccent, 2 months ago

sigh

Ok, I've signed up but now I have to resubscribe to everything. Shame Ernest won't accept help, hope he's alright though.

magnetosphere, 2 months ago

I forgot I already had an account on fedia, and I like it just fine. I think I’ll hang out here for now, and see if kbin starts behaving.

elgordino, 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago)

I'm down for giving it a go, and have created an account on fedia.io, but the 'hot' page has nothing new for 17 hours.

Given the mostly shared codebase between kbin/mbin I wonder if there is something screwing with federation, and with it just having been the weekend there's probably not been anyone around to notice.

Update: Ernest has given an update https://kbin.social/m/kbinMeta/t/875274/RE-Is-Ernest-still-here

I’ll probs stick with kbin a while longer.

JayTreeman, 2 months ago

I'm on fedia now and usually, and will continue to use, kbin.

Fedia feels like kbin 8 months ago.

The real issue is a project with this reach that is so centralized. If Ernest has something happen where he stops development, what happens to kbin?

There's needs to be some succession planning

Nougat, 2 months ago

Same. kbin.social is big enough that it needs extra people behind the scenes, not just with development but with community engagement and spam control, probably other things I am not thinking of. I threw a message to volunteer for anything, and I'm not rescinding that.

I remain hopeful that kbin.social is successful, but there's writing on the wall that demands attention.

Rhaedas, 2 months ago

I made an account with fedia just as a backup to see things when kbin has issues, but I'm not leaving kbin just yet. The nice thing is that there are forks and alternatives. I even still have a lemmy account from the first days when I was figuring out stuff. I get that people prefer to have a home base and post history, maybe even care about connections made, replies to, and even upvoting. But even back when I found Reddit from leaving a dying old-style forum my first goal was to have a place to read and discuss a variety of topics, and even hopping around the fediverse I can still do that.

I hope Ernest sticks with it and kbin continues to mature (sounds like he's got stuff coming), but I also hope mbin does its own things as a fork, and lemmy tries different approaches (with its own variants). Infinite Diversity in Infinite Combinations is always a great goal.