First, I think Ernest has done a fantastic job and I’ve been rooting for him this whole time. But it’s becoming clear it’s all too much for him without the support of a larger team.

Over the last several months there have been multiple posts about the spam problems on this instance, both here and on other instances. We’ve been fortunate so far they haven’t simply defederated us.

Now when I go to the Hot page it’s 12 hours out of date.

It’s with a heavy heart I looked into a kbin fork mentioned in another thread in this magazine: Mbin.

GitHub: https://github.com/MbinOrg/mbin

Instance list: https://fedidb.org/software/mbin

The largest instance: https://fedia.io/

I’ll miss you Kbin. It’s been good. Thanks Ernest!

It’s not the purpose of this post to support any particular instance. Feel free to mention your own alternatives below.

  • s0ckpuppet@kbin.social
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    7 months ago

    The sole maintainer of the project has been totally MIA for a month and the site has gone down or partially not worked repeatedly for months now. Now we’ve got issues with post federating on time and spam bots. It’s not sustainable like this. I really appreciate what Ernest has done and am a big fan of Kbin, but he’s clearly spread too thin and apparently wont allow people to help him.

      • FaceDeer@kbin.social
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        7 months ago

        This site never worked without a hitch.

        That is not a ringing endorsement.

        I was very enthusiastic about kbin when it launched, I donated a fair bit to Ernest in those early heady days. But if he’s refusing to accept help from other devs and admins I don’t think it’s sustainable, something like this just can’t work as a one-man show. I wish him all the best but if that doesn’t change I don’t see this working in the long run.

          • FaceDeer@kbin.social
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            7 months ago

            It has been getting worse for me. In addition to the sporadic outages, the spam, and the slow federation, I’ve had to develop the habit of refreshing the page before I try to respond to or vote on any comments. If I open the page and let it sit for a few minutes before trying I invariably get an error. It definitely didn’t used to be that way.

            If it was that bad for you from the outset I’m surprised you stuck around. I wouldn’t’ve. I’ve only held on because I started to feel “settled”.

      • s0ckpuppet@kbin.social
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        7 months ago

        Yep I decided to switch accounts to this username from another one I had been using that is kinda attached to my freelance business. I felt like it wasn’t the wisest move to get into occasional debates with strangers like that. Some people just lose their mind if you disagree with them online.

        So I requested deletion close to a month ago and it still hasn’t gone through. Will it ever? Who knows