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Is there a place off Kbin to get information about what's going on with Kbin? (kbin.social)

submitted 3 months ago by Hegar@kbin.social to c/kbinMeta@kbin.social

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Since the site has been down for all but a few hours of the last week, I've really wanted somewhere I can get a little information about what's going on.

Is there a mastodon dev account, or an off-site blog or even just a community on Lemmy?

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[–] TulipanJones@kbin.social 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

We can see Ernest’s posts on Mastadon but he hasn’t posted anything in a couple months.

[–] Maeve@kbin.social 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Didn't he have some sort of health issues a while back? I hope he's okay, and that includes not being overwhelmed with growth and burnout. Is he also employed? Need family and rest time, sometimes. RL takes precedence.

ETA: it's possible malicious actors gained control. I'm not saying that's what happened, I'm saying it's possible.

[–] Icantlogin@kbin.social 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I tried logging in on my main account but Kbin wouldnt let me if I used my username it said invalid credentials and if I used my email it just brought up the error 50 thing. I made Matrix space so kbin users can still talk to each other when it is down. #kbin.social:matrix.org
Also Ernest this is a temporary account I don't mind if it gets deleted.

[–] livus@kbin.social 2 points 3 months ago

Thanks for doing this. It won't let me upvote you.

[–] mihies@kbin.social 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I started considering hosting my own instance for private or limited use. Any thoughts?

[–] BaldProphet@kbin.social 3 points 3 months ago

It can be very expensive in terms of disk space usage.

[–] atocci@kbin.social 2 points 3 months ago

No, there's no other communication avenue. Ernest posts to his kbin account.

[–] ihavenopeopleskills@kbin.social 1 points 3 months ago

That other site slash r slash redditalternatives

[–] originalucifer@kbin.social 1 points 3 months ago (2 children)

https://codeberg.org/Kbin/kbin-core/issues/1383#issuecomment-1999046

i had to post this on a local account because kbin.social federation is now > 3 day behind

my instance has open signups with a similar interface using mbin; https://moist.catsweat.com if anyone wants a backup

[–] SharkAttak@kbin.social 1 points 3 months ago

Thank you, it's the only news from the boss we got lately.. wonder how much of the instance management will be handed over.

[–] Icantlogin@kbin.social 1 points 3 months ago

Wait there is already a matrix room? https://matrix.to/#/#kbin:matrix.org Should I delete the one I made and just use that?

[–] Maeve@kbin.social 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Can't upvote or boost you, we'll see if I can reply, because I also want updates.

[–] atocci@kbin.social 2 points 3 months ago

Your post went through

[–] ares35@kbin.social 1 points 3 months ago

i first went to https://kbin.pub (the site for the software itself), nothing posted there so i followed the link to the repo to check open issues. saw it was being addressed, so i just used a lemmy instance in the interim.

[–] MxM111@kbin.social 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

For the last two weeks, I was able to get only like 10% of the time onto kbin. Maybe even a month. The other times it is “upgrading infrastructure over the next few days” message. I see nothing anywhere explaining what is going on. I finding myself going back to Reddit….

[–] elgordio@kbin.social 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I’ve been using https://fedia.io/ while kbin has been down. It runs on mbin which is a fork of kbin. If kbin comes back properly I’ll quite probably move back, either way it’s good to have options.

[–] palordrolap@kbin.social 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

fedia.io had disabled sign-ups when I last looked. Ended up on kbin.run instead. Despite the name, it's also an Mbin instance.

[–] Icantlogin@kbin.social 1 points 3 months ago

Yeah I noticed that when I tried to sign up for fedia.io but I also use kbin.run and it works pretty well.