It’s been inaccessible for roughly 24hrs right now and I’m having a hard time finding any group talking about it. Was there a change recently, or some kind of an explanation posted?

  • stevecrox@kbin.run
    7·
    10 months ago

    The developer behind KBin seems to have issues delegating/accepting contributors.

    If you look at the pull requests, most have been unreviewed for months and he tends to regularly push his branches once complete and just merge them in.

    That behaviour drove the MBin fork, where 4-5 people were really keen to contribute but were frustrated.

    To some extent that would be ok, its his project and if he doesn’t want to encourage contributions that is his decision but…

    KBin.social has gotten to the size where it really should have multiple admins (or a paid full time person). Which it doesn’t have.

    The developer has also told us he has gone through a divorce, moved into his own place, gotten a full time job and now had surgery.

    Thats a lot for any normal person and he is going through that while trying to wear 2 hats (dev & ops) each of which would consume most of your free time.

    Personally I moved to kbin.run which is run by one of the MBin devs

  • NegativeLookBehind@kbin.social
    4·
    10 months ago

    I’m not one to knock a developer on their software. Making things like kbin are complex and they certainly take effort to maintain and improve. That being said, these are my complaints about the management of kbin:

    Why is there hardly ever any feedback from Ernest about why kbin is down? It just comes back up and that’s the end of it, until the next outage. A link to an explanation, or detailed banner message, or a schedule would be nice, assuming that these outages are scheduled.

    Why has Ernest insisted on being the only developer to work on this? This creates a potential “single point of failure” situation.

    None of the git issues on Codeberg seem to get triaged or responded to.

    Ernest rarely responds to DMs on kbin.

    At this point, I think I’m just going to create an alternate Lemmy account to avoid these blackouts.

      • tiredofsametab@kbin.run
        11·
        10 months ago

        I created an acount on kbin.run (which is mbin) earlier today. I tried on the most populous mbin instance, but the request page throws 429s and the contact page 500s. This morning, I was ready just to go back to reddit for a bit (I didn’t care for Lemmy, but I guess I would give it another shot before that).

    • livus@kbin.social
      1·
      10 months ago

      @NegativeLookBehind pretty sure this outage was unscheduled, as Ernest usually warns us

      At this point, I think I’m just going to create an alternate Lemmy account to avoid these blackouts.

      You should. I have accounts all over the fediverse, probably one of the reasons I don’t get angsty if my main on kbin’s down.

      • NegativeLookBehind@kbin.social
        0·
        10 months ago

        Where are the warnings? If they’re in some particular magazine that maybe not every user is subscribed to, then this is a bad practice.

        • livus@kbin.social
          1·
          10 months ago

          @NegativeLookBehind kbinDevlog. Personally I feel pretty chill about it.

          I don’t think Ernest owes us anything. It’s his early development project, he didn’t specifically invite me here. I just showed up one day, and feel grateful to be able to come along for the ride.

          • NegativeLookBehind@kbin.social
            1·
            10 months ago

            Cool, and I respect that. And I respect Ernest for what he does and he doesn’t owe anyone anything at all. But if you open source a thing and then almost completely ignore your user base, it’s just a bit disappointing.

  • maegul (he/they)@lemmy.mlEnglish
    1·
    10 months ago

    I just visited and got this message:

    We are working on resolving the issues Over the next few days, there will be a change in server infrastructure. Temporary problems with the website’s functionality may occur during this time.

    • Skua@kbin.social
      3·
      10 months ago

      That’s the default “kbin is down” message, I wouldn’t put much stock in the specifics of it

  • doc@kbin.social
    2·
    10 months ago

    It finally just came up. Posting here from it now.

    The admin last posted almost 2 weeks ago saying he was having a minor surgical procedure and hadn’t publicly posted since. Hopefully he’s okay and fixed this himself, but he’s still silent at the moment.