/kbin - a few quick announcements

Good morning! :) Today I want to focus mainly on reviewing the pull requests you've submitted. There are many great things there that will help improve the kbin experience. That's amazing, thank you! I'm also in the final stages of sorting out the infrastructure-related formalities. Soon, the situation with the website's functionality should stabilize, and the traffic from the fediverse will gradually be restored. I've decided to delegate some tasks as I can no longer oversee everything at this stage. There are many offers of help for which I'm very grateful, and I haven't had a chance to respond to some of them yet because I only just saw them - a lot is happening, really.

As I mentioned before, new possibilities have emerged that I couldn't have imagined before. All of this is thanks to your support; you are incredible, and I thank you. That's why it's crucial for me to ensure transparency in everything we do and provide regular reports. I want to share as much information behind the scenes as possible. That's why it may seem like it's taking a long time, but I truly want to make the most of every cent.

Now, onto the bad news. I messed up.

The workload overwhelmed me, and I couldn't read all your messages. I will diligently work my way through them, but I need time.

The registration system is far from perfect, so from time to time, I manually verify and activate accounts whose activation links didn't arrive. Please check again later if you find yourself in such a situation.

The queue for account deletions is stuck. Manual fix is needed, which will be difficult until the infrastructure is moved. I have recorded all 230 account deleiton requests, and each one will definitely be deleted, but I also need time for that. I apologize for this. If someone wants their account to be immediately deleted, please send an email through the contact form starting with "DELETE MY ACCOUNT" - it will be easier for me to filter it out, and I will delete the account manually.

That's all from me. I'm going back to stirring the cauldron. Thank you for all the messages and kind words. Thank you for being here. Have a nice day!

Yoscooter,

https://youtube.com/shorts/wx5DO_jceJc?si=lGWBdHW7tPa68Wxu

juergen_hubert,
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Since Ernest doesn't mention it himself, I would like to point out that he has a BuyMeACoffee account where you can donate to him to support him for all his hard work.

crilen,

Thanks I just bought him one =D

stickerface,

Just found this site - definitely going to be putting an effort in to getting the formula1 kbin populated.

VulcanSphere,
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From your friend at /m/indycar and /m/wec, Vulcan supports!

Puppypoi,

push push

eatmoregreenfood,
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Let's goooooooo

calixte,

FYI, there is already a lemmy community for f1 gaining some traction. Do with that what you will, just putting it out there :)

!formula1

dirtypirate,

I get a 404 from that link

autr,
autr avatar

A shame it is at lemmy.ml. I'd really like to avoid that instance, but a lot of communities are really active there.

Evolone,
Evolone avatar

What’s your reasoning behind avoiding lemmy.ml? Just curious as I’ve been trying to find my landing place. I’ve enjoyed kbin but have found it a bit difficult to navigate, whereas lemmy.ml and beehaw.org both seem pretty straightforward.

sisyphean,

I've read somewhere that it's being run by "tankies". I didn't know what that meant so I looked it up and it seems that "tankies" are very militant communists.

Aesthesiaphilia,

The bigger concern is that they're very pro Russia and pro CCP, despite neither of those really being communist anymore. Two countries that are actively spreading disinfo on the internet.

Bipta,

Their page is a link away from a huge manifesto on GitHub with "Mao did nothing wrong," among other absurdities.

Alexmitter,
Alexmitter avatar

Tankies defy logic.

tal,
tal avatar

it seems that "tankies" are very militant communists.

In the original sense of the word, it was specific to people who favored Soviet military intervention in Eastern Bloc countries. Today, I see it used on the UK political subreddits more-commonly used more broadly for people who are really anti-West and authoritarian far-left. Like, if someone takes the position that Stalin had the right idea and his vision of the Soviet Union was the right way for the world to go, they'd probably be called a tankie regardless of their specific views on the Soviet interventions in Eastern Europe.

It isn't used much here in the US, that I'm aware of.

autr,
autr avatar

Concerns about the admin team and about the main dev.
Sources:

https://mstdn.social/@feditips/106835057054633379
https://redd.it/143o5xd

Alexmitter,
Alexmitter avatar

Yea they are mostly tankies. Like proper "CCP is actually good, there is no issues in xinjiang" stuff.

VerifiablyMrWonka,
VerifiablyMrWonka avatar

Sadly, until federation is working, it may as well not exist.

That said, when it does start working I look forward to the battle of the f1 communities.

rokejulianlockhart,
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It appears to be federating now.

duringoverflow,

there is an inconsistency I have noticed between kbin and lemmy in the format that such links are presented. The problem is in the exclamation mark. In lemmy it is required to show it is a community, however here it is not

For example if you write it as https://kbin.social/m/formula1@lemmy.ml you'll see it works. (Ok, the content is outdated because of the known problems but the you get the point)

Otome-chan,
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relatedly, trying to do an @ communityname sometimes mixes up a link to the user with that name vs the community with that name.

MassiveCelebration78,

Eventually I think migrating communities will be a simple task. I’d love all my favorite sports communties to have an active place on kbin.

Tangent: my feeling rn is anything completely non-political should be on kbin. I’m not bashing Lemmy oe anyone else for their political stance - I probably agree with most of it - but it’s also what a casual user is going to be turned off by and it’s not what I want to be a deciding factor in wether or not a community of [x] fans is united by. Maybe it’s just cuz I’m a casual fan of a lot of sports, and/or I am someone who uses sports as a means to escape the bullshit.

Anyways, a welcome sight to see F1 on Kbin. Now someone get the NFL and Soccer and I’m good.

DaGuys470,
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I shall join you

stillnotahero,

Lights out and away we go!

AzureImp,
AzureImp avatar

Ohhh, let’s lick that stamp and send it! 🏎️

johnkbin,

Bwoah

1chemistdown,
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@ernest, have you seen this?

Just wanted to welcome folks to https://readit.buzz - it’s ran by Universeodon.com admins on our bare metal infrastructure - should be nice & performant. I look forward to seeing everyone on fediverse! Bring your friends :)

By u/blahism over on r/KbinMigration.

garrettw87,
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double post

1chemistdown,
1chemistdown avatar

The system was having problems a few days back.

Chuck-of-the-North,
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@ernest Please hang in there and take a breath. This site is amazing quality for a beta given the insane traffic coming over from the /r debacle. Pace yourself. Development and testing is a marathon, not a sprint (no pun intended).

I hope the many new arrivals (like me) appreciate how far kbin has come so quickly. /r wasn't solid for quite a while.

gorkx,

@ernest lol so you got slashdotted and people are paying you a ***** ton on buy me a coffee as an apollogee. lol wtf. never change reddit and internet.

sky,
sky avatar

This is a WILD situation for anyone to find themselves in. Thank you for all your hard work and warm welcome.

IrritatedSysAdmin,

You're doing a remarkable job @ernest - Thank you for your hard work.

1chemistdown,
1chemistdown avatar

@ernest, have you seen this?

Just wanted to welcome folks to https://readit.buzz - it’s ran by Universeodon.com admins on our bare metal infrastructure - should be nice & performant. I look forward to seeing everyone on fediverse! Bring your friends :)

By u/blahism over on r/KbinMigration

theinspectorst,
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Thank you for sharing this! Can I ask if you can put any context around 'soon' and 'gradually' in these statements?

Soon, the situation with the website's functionality should stabilize, and the traffic from the fediverse will gradually be restored

I originally signed up for another instance (intending to be helpful by not overloading this one!) but the huge growth of kbin.social and lack of interoperability means that if I'm not here, I'm not really getting much value out of kbin.

Really appreciate your work here, but any expectations management you can do around when interoperability will resume (hours, days, weeks, months?) would be hugely helpful for me deciding which instance I should settle down in.

ernest,
ernest avatar

@theinspectorst Hey, I hope it will stabilize in the next few hours, but knowing reality, it could take a few days. In certain matters, I simply have to wait. Once it happens, bringing the full functionality back to the fediverse will probably also take a few days. I suspect that due to CF, some instances may temporarily block us, and I will have to reach out to their administrators. I'm using these words because it's really difficullt for me to estimate anything on my own.

theinspectorst,
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Thanks for taking the time to reply to this amid all the other things keeping you busy - even that amount of clarity is very helpful! Keep up the great work.

experbia,
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I've been in a position similarly unenviable to yours. It's exciting but stressful. Even if it all feels incredibly high-priority, don't burn out; it's a marathon not a sprint!

I've been picking through issues and working on fixes locally to try and get you bundled-up PRs that use the systems and conventions you've already established, instead of just taping discontinuous new on top of everything. However, despite being a grumpy old PHP and JS veteran, I'm somehow a relative newbie to Symfony and Stimulus, so I hope I'm not doing more harm than good lol.

I think /kbin has a big future.

hariette,
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@ernest I've been working on a 3rd party app for kbin. I'm gonna be running a beta test within a month or two. Would love to know about official API support, seems like you're pretty darn busy. For now I'm working around that and cloudflare protection but not sure how that'll scale eventually heh. So just an FYI.

sysop,

How do we contact you?
I may be able to help some with infrastructure and I have at least a passing interest in setting up my own instance but I have questions first.

tekeous,

G'day Ernest,

I am the admin of kbin.lol, and I would like to assist more in the Codeberg in cleaning up and labeling feature requests, closing WontFix, etc. I have a WFH job and plenty of time on my hands, and years of experience in tech support and Git management. My handle over on Codeberg is tekeous.

Additionally I would like to again reach out and offer that as soon as Fedi integration is working again, my instance is running and ready to scale up at a moment's notice. I would like to see some of these bugs fixed(account deletions, XSS vuln) before I really ramp it up, but I am ready and waiting to assist with the influx of users.

I have sent a Contact Us form and I understand that you're probably getting a lot of requests, hence this comment. Please reach out by email to admin@kbin.lol if you have any further questions or discussions.

-Nico

PtitSerpent,
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Thanks for all your work! I'm amazed that one person did this!

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