/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!

experbia,
experbia avatar

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,
PtitSerpent avatar

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

MindDragon,

Hey -- take care of yourself.

Don't feel that you have to do it all yourself!! If others of us can support you in ANY way, just post a note. Hey I need (x) and we'll be there.

Also - Gitcoin is an option even if you're not a crypto project!

Take care.

nightauthor,
nightauthor avatar

btw, you posted that 3 times. There seems to be a bug that doesn't show you when your comment is submitted (I think particularly when the server is under load).

Happened to me a couple of times yesterday.

MindDragon,

Hey -- take care of yourself.

Don't feel that you have to do it all yourself!! If others of us can support you in ANY way, just post a note. Hey I need (x) and we'll be there.

Also - Gitcoin is an option even if you're not a crypto project!

Take care.

MindDragon,

Hey -- take care of yourself.

Don't feel that you have to do it all yourself!! If others of us can support you in ANY way, just post a note. Hey I need (x) and we'll be there.

Also - Gitcoin is an option even if you're not a crypto project!

Take care.

caffeinePlease,
caffeinePlease avatar

Nothing requires forgiveness; we are thankful for your efforts. Keep up the wonderful work!

lixus98,
lixus98 avatar

Thanks for the effort, looking forward to what kbin will become

black-twisted-boughs,
black-twisted-boughs avatar

Just chiming in to say how much I appreciate all the hard work you’re putting into this. Managing this sudden influx of traffic with so little down time and such grace is really impressive and hasn’t gone unnoticed. Cheers mate.

Teal,
Teal avatar

Glad you have some help to spread the work out a bit. The work you’ve done already is amazing!

While you may feel pressure to hurry my opinion at least is to not burn yourself out. The fediverse is out there and will be waiting for us no matter if it’s hours, days, weeks. :)

Be well and thank you for such great efforts!

8BitFriendly,
8BitFriendly avatar

All of this is thanks to your support; you are incredible, and I thank you.

No, sir, you are incredible. Thank you!

(let us know if/how we can help + take some well-deserved rest from time to time!)

dominoko,
dominoko avatar

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

Saturdaycat,
Saturdaycat avatar

Thank you! You are awesome!

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