/kbin is feeling great right now ( kbin.social )
Thanks for putting in something awesome, @ernest! Not sure if you want feedback, but functionality is as full as I know it to be. Maybe better. It is really fast right now! Hope you are on the mend.
/kbin another quick update ( kbin.social )
Good morning, last week we managed to address pressing issues related to infrastructure. Thank you once again for your assistance, Piotr. I will continue work in this area, but it will be less invasive and cumbersome. I have restored the test environments and am slowly getting back into coding....
/kbin next March update ( kbin.social )
Over the next few weeks, we're facing another server change. I'm doing everything to optimize costs and prepare the instance for long-term operation. More details are available on the status page I'm currently working on....
Banning spam accounts ( kbin.social )
Banning spam accounts on kbin.social is a cumbersome affair....
kbin.social/sub says 404 page not found. Does anyone else have this issue? ( media.kbin.social )
The future of kbin.earth... ( kbin.earth )
This post doesn't directly affect kbin.social users, but it is relevant. It discusses some of the potential pros/cons of Kbin and the pros/cons of Mbin, and also the direction the kbin.earth server is heading.
Can we help against spammers? ( kbin.social )
Is there any way we, as users, can help deal with the waves of spam-meds-bots? When I get the chance I downvote, but that's not possible for microblog. Do reporting them have any effect, or they go in the pile and are more a nuisance than a help?...
Please turn off science ( kbin.social )
3 or 4 spam "Buy Phloboxidril Now In Your Area" posts per day were tolerable. 20 to 50 aren't. I know I could block the magazine, but I'm just one of the many who are subjected to it....
If you're encountering the Subscribed 404 error, this is a good time to revisit Collections ( kbin.social )
Feeling thwarted by the 404, I suddenly remembered there are plenty of curated feeds over in Collections for us to browse. Have updated one of mine to reflect newer communities.
So I really am the cancer on this platform ( kbin.social )
Noticed I got banned by the admins from lemmy.world shower thoughts yesterday. The admins have an interesting reason though....
/kbin quick March update ( kbin.social )
I'm slowly catching up with backlog tasks and cleaning up instances, but there's still quite a bit to do. Day by day, I'm managing to work longer hours, but I still need some time to ramp up the intensity of work. Just wanted to let you know that there might be brief downtimes in instance operation over the weekend. I aim to...
Could blocked magazines no longer appear in Random Post and Random Thread sidebars? ( kbin.social )
A lot of the larger abandoned magazines are just spam pools now. I don't see their posts in my feed, but I don't like that the two sidesbars of random posts and threads are now just spam advertising sidebars. I triedblocking the magazines, but doesn't that prevent the posts from showing in those sidebars....
Lemmy.world has gone read only to us ( kbin.social )
We'll still get their content but be unable to interact.
KES 4.2.0: Improved spam filtering ( kbin.social )
KES is the Kbin Enhancement Suite, a userscript/extension for (k/m)bin that provides a variety of customizable tools for users....
Unofficial Kbin Guide is closing down ( kbin.social )
Hi all. I have decided to shut down the unofficial kbin guide magazine (https://kbin.social/m/unofficial_kbin_guide) as well as shut down the unofficial docs page: https://unofficial-kbin-guide.surge.sh/....
KES 4.0.0 now adds full mbin compatibility ( kbin.social )
KES is the Kbin Enhancement Suite....
What's The Difference Between a "Collection" and a "Magazine"? ( kbin.social )
I noticed it's 'slash c' https://kbin.social/c/Feminism but 'slash m' https://kbin.social/m/commodore64
Start composing a reply to this thread. Did you notice you can change the size of the reply field by dragging the right bottom corner? ( kbin.social )
I think that's cool. I have not discovered a limit to how large you can make the box.
Since no upvotes are possible, the 'Hot' and 'New' pages of Kbin should show the same content. That's kinda awesome ( kbin.social )
Browsing by new was great in the early days of the first Kbin expansion, right after the reddit migration. I got to see all sorts of posts from interesting communities. Things you wouldn't normally see browsing under 'Hot'. Eventually, as thread numbers increase, I found myself using 'Hot' almost exclusively because it delivered...
/kbin March update ( kbin.social )
I'm feeling a bit better. Starting today, I'll be returning to work as much as possible. This week will likely be spent catching up on tasks, replying to emails, reading overdue comments, etc. I also need to work with Piotr on instance infrastructure. I'll be more actively handling spam as well, but it's clear that we need...
KES 4.1.0: Improving the signal to noise ratio by blocking unsolicited ads ( kbin.social )
The blurb below is excerpted verbatim from the release notes. For the full release notes, see here....
Migrate Lemmy server to mbin/kbin
cross-posted from: https://swg-empire.de/post/825076...
Do the "Ernest needs to add more maintainers to KBin!" comments remind anyone else of the xz social engineering malarkey? ( kbin.social )
Comments such as:...
If kbin is going down for planned maintenance can the generic ‘ Over the next few days, there will be a change in server infrastructure…’ text at least be dated ( kbin.social )
It’s impossible to tell if there is an actual server upgrade, or they have just gone down, displaying the message from last time.
RE: Is Ernest still here? ( kbin.social )
I check in here quite often, but for now, I'm just focusing on clearing spam and keeping the instance alive. In January, I was working on the AP module, and there has been significant progress in the work, which hasn't been publicly published yet. Unfortunately, at the beginning of the year, I developed a skin condition that...
