As explained in the last post, I was trying to get s3 (R2) set up with kbin.earth, and now it's complete. Now storage costs should be significantly lower (with more capacity) and maybe images will load even faster now....
Sorry for the past 90 minutes of downtime; I've been trying to set up s3 storage for kbin.earth, but was unfortunately unsuccessful. I'll likely try again tomorrow (in case you notice it down again).
This post doesn't directly affect kbin.social users, but it is relevant. It discusses some of the potential pros/cons of Kbin and Mbin, and also the direction the kbin.earth server is heading.
Recently, I've noticed federated threads/comments/votes were lagging behind, and it turns out kbin.earth was being spammed (hundreds in a minute, leading to a couple thousand queued messages after only half an hour) by a Lemmy server with the same exact activity pub message. After blocking the server (feddit.de), federation...