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?
We can see Ernest’s posts on Mastadon but he hasn’t posted anything in a couple months.
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.
No, there’s no other communication avenue. Ernest posts to his kbin account.
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.Thanks for doing this. It won’t let me upvote you.
I started considering hosting my own instance for private or limited use. Any thoughts?
It can be very expensive in terms of disk space usage.
Can’t upvote or boost you, we’ll see if I can reply, because I also want updates.
Your post went through
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….
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.
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.
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
Wait there is already a matrix room? https://matrix.to/#/#kbin:matrix.org Should I delete the one I made and just use that?
Thank you, it’s the only news from the boss we got lately… wonder how much of the instance management will be handed over.
That other site slash r slash redditalternatives
