/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!

stopthatgirl7,
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Thank you for all your hard work! I’m looking forward to seeing how kbin develops, and have no problems waiting for improvements. Slow and steady is better than fast and burned out!

Ni,
Ni avatar

Appreciate your efforts and the updates! I think everyone here is excited to see how this place develops in the future.

sky,
sky avatar

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

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

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,
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The system was having problems a few days back.

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

dominoko,
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We appreciate you! Don't forget to take care of yourself :)

1984,
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Thank you for all the hard work. Keep it up!

Moops,

Thank you for all your work. You're building a great place.

LollerCorleone,
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You are doing a great job! Thank you!

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.

sailsperson,
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I've been thinking of contributing for several years now, but never had an actual opportunity to do so for the software that I feel confident enough about. There's always Linux, but I'm far from being able to make a meaningful contribution there.

Hopefully I find some time to learn more about the tech kbin (and perhaps other fediverse platforms) uses and finally put my skills to use in open-source.

Knowing that there's something I can do sitting in front of my computer and mashing my keyboard that has the potential of making something that I use together with many other people is dizzying, honestly, even if that's just a prospect. Knowing that it can put me into a good light in the development world is even more dizzying.

Man, there's some things I do hate about software, but there's so much to love!

mabd,
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Oh no, I tried to delete my newly created account because I realized I typed my user name with a capital letter and would prefer to have it just "mabd". I couldn't find a way to change names, so I thought it would be easier to delete and recreate. Didn't mean to create more work for you! :(

ernest,
ernest avatar

@mabd ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡° )つ──☆*:・゚

mabd,
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ok, wtf. That was amazing. lmao Thanks so much! Thanks for all the hard work. Time to post and comment and create content :)

AnonymousLlama,
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Just found my way here from the Reddit migration. The site is great overall and I'm super keen to see how the community and site develops over time, keep up the good work ♥️

kjr,
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@ernest Great news!! Thanks for all your hard work!!

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