What is going on with kbin - a week has passed with no sign of any life
What is going on with kbin - a week has passed with no sign of any life
I almost feel like it's October last year, when I pled for improvement on all fronts regarding the Kbin development strategy. Now it seems development has ceased once again and there hasn't been chat on the matrix channels for over a week. Update: that's two weeks now (including his blog) and over a...
I know some of you consider this as documented whining. I hear you but won't stop sharing my opinion and reminding. I recommend continuing commenting on the original post to keep it a bit organized (this post is a link to it)
Update: this thread has gotten out of hand. This is not what I intended, this is not what anybody should want. Let's leave it at this, for now.
I've heard talk of mbin being a fork with more active development, is it getting "ahead" of kbin or is kbin taking changes back from it? No disrespect intended to Earnest, but a single developer probably can't keep up with all this on their own.
I'm extremely in favor of being able to interact with both Lemmy people and Mastodon people, and I wanted to switch to kbin because it seems like one of a very few solutions that can do that.
Initially I was pretty skeptical of mbin, because as a general rule the "screw the existing maintainers let's fork" people are usually mistaken about some things, but I have to say having installed and worked with both, I like mbin significantly better. My experience is minimal, and the fork was pretty recent, but mbin fixes some specific things that I had trouble with or that irked me during the short time I was working with kbin. Some significant instances also seem like they've switched over to mbin. Having kbin's "flagship" instance down for like a week didn't really help either. As I understand it, the mbin philosophy is "let's fix up the backend and get federation more solid before we do much more in terms of big new features" which I can get behind.
They're both very rough and early pieces of software, honestly as is the entire Lemmy side of things it seems to me. If you're interested because you don't want things like the 0.19 federation breakage, then I am sad to report that you might find broken stuff in kbin / mbin as well.
I honestly have no idea about the drama side of things. I wish all good things for Ernest and I'm happy with the software he 99% created. kbin has some things (e.g. combined Lemmy+Mastodon posts all in one home screen) which mbin doesn't have, which makes it kind of a shame that they're being developed apparently irrevocably separately at this point. IDK. Like I say I have no idea about that side of things.
Just my 2c as a person that installed mbin recently and likes it
(Edit: To answer the specific question, it seems like they're completely separate at this point. They split in early October with no synchronization in the separate paths of development since then, it looks like to me.)
This user seems to obsessed.. All his/her previous post has been about how kbin is dying and that there now is a new fork of it. 7 days is nothing. As far as I know there are very few developers on kbin, cut them some slack will yah.
I mean, I'm all for options, and I'm glad there's plenty of folks working to make sure there's alternatives to a single way of doing things, but are still federated.
But, dude, you're being a bit of a douche here. It's whatever, as long as mods of this C/ don't have a rule against it, but just from the casual user perspective, your post is douchey. Maybe that's intentional, though I don't think so, and I hope not. But there it is.
Mate, you are a none track record.
Recent posts:
What is going on with kbin - a week has passed with no sign of any life
What is going on with Kbin
Issues with the functioning of kbin.social
Why is kbin so full of empty stuff?
Why is kbin so full of empty stuff?
Mbin is born - Fork of kbin
It’s weird to advertise yourself like this, just post that you’re welcoming new members for your cool project
If that were my intention, I would. If things were going ok with kbin I wouldn't have posted this. Or if the chaos in October hadn't happened
@TheVillageGuy take a look at this post that showed up on my feed along with the present one: Why I started Sublinks: A timeline of events.
It seems like this person had a somewhat similar experience to yourselves in that they were frustrated with the development of lemmy. Some effort was made to contribute but it didn't work out. The frustrations mounted and eventually a new project was the only way forward.
Same the mbin folks, a chat server was a useful off-threadiverse venue where ideas coalesced and relationships were built. As a participant in mbin do you catch my drift that they are roughly parallel trajectories? I'm not in either community don't know the details.
But notice how the problems with other people or orgs is only mentioned in that they are relevant to this story. And while it does allude to some problems which were emotionally taxing, the focus on what was done to fix it and the outcomes.
So far the mbin project still exists and I do see people using it. If it's going to be a long term thing youse should consider how you are representing yourselves. Being a weird Earnest accountability stalker is off putting. If you were doing it on your own behalf it would be a little disturbing. But you so clearly are doing it as some sort of ambassador in order to suggest people use mbin; and other mbin people have said similar things so I am not intending to single you out. This behaviour makes you and by extension mbin seem like a bunch of unhinged petty drama queens. It give a shine to the project as a whole. It is unnecessary. It will continue to have no helpful impact on the outcomes of kbin.
I think it is possible at this point to set a new tone if you want. Try the link, maybe even get to know these folks if you don't already because I bet it would be productive. Youse are probably facing similar issues with federation. Just need to decide what chat software to use.
This behaviour makes you and by extension mbin seem like a bunch of unhinged petty drama queens.
Personally, there's already absolutely no way I'm ever going to use mbin, no matter what, just because these people nauseate me.
Agreed, every post I see from them further paints them as very childish and desperate for attention.
Your opinion is welcome and duely noted. I am posting this on my own behalf, no others related in any way to mbin are involved
When I have time I will read the link you've supplied
However, Please don't spin the situation of kbin so that it looks like I'm the one causing it or making it up. Reality remains that one person controls the main hub kbin.social and has proven and admitted before that he can't handle it by himself.
Yeah honestly feels like finding a McD clown advertising inside a Burger King..
And every fork gives me the idea of stretching resources further thin.Yeah that makes sense and frankly I was a bit scared at first that mbin wouldn't last long. But it's still here and actively being developed. What we have to try to avoid Indeed is forking again.
What's a kbin?
kbin is federating server product, like lemmy, but also includes the miroblog portion of AP.
kbin.social is the flagship instance of this software.
mbin is the community fork of kbin, made after concerns regarding the original developers restricted development pipeline.
many of us are concerned that kbin.social could go sideways at any time because it seems to lack any communicative management or development.
there are several mbin instances that can provide a near identical experience that are prepared to assist users should hey need a new home.
A list of mbin instances
A different ActivityPub application something like Mastodon+Lemmy in one.
Hello,
Isn't the original post on this community already?
It is, the entire post is a link to it and I've linked to it in the body.
This is exactly the reason I forked kbin in the past, the fork is community-focused called Mbin.
Dude, just build a better product and let it speak for itself. Or maybe try contributing to kbin. It’s not cool to always be harping on the guy for his development pace and trying to pull people over to your fork. Like, we’re supposed to hop over there because you’ve made more commits this week? How do we know your project would be any better off if it ever blows up the way kbin did?
That kbin dude got tens of thousands of subscribers overnight and then put on blast with bug reports and feature requests. He’s done a good job running the site too. He’s got a pretty good track record as far as I’m concerned. He hasn’t asked for shit in return except a little space to maintain his sanity.
Wow, I didn’t realize making more commits and changes means something is better.
I mean, if something is working and it’s working decently well… does it need a nightly change or frequent updates? It not being updated as often as it normally does is not a bad sign imo.
Maybe I'm blind but I don't see anybody saying that and it's not my opinion
@melroy Dude, you need to reign in your street team. This post and all the others like it are harassment done on behalf of you and your project. And you are here posting in support, condoning it.
Tracking a person's online activity is fucked up stalker behavior. It doesn't matter what role they play in what project. It is harassment and obviously intended to menace. No matter what OP says, everyone can see this is the case. Look at the comments on the page. Do you see comments like this about any other open source project?
It's really likely this will escalate. Nothing good is going to come of this. Kbin won't be developed any faster. Mbin's reputation will deteriorate, attract fewer users/contributors than it otherwise might have and specifically repel friendly helpful people who don't appreciate this kind of thing. Your instances may be de-federated for failing to stop harassment. OP will sink further and further into whatever miserable spiral they are in. You personally will be associated with all of it because as a community leader you come here to encourage OP in this unhinged behavior. Find a way to redirect this energy into something that is useful for your project, or disassociate from it.
I was reminded of the situation by a notification of this comment on my post. I realized it was a week ago and out of curiosity checked Ernest's dev blog and the codeberg repo to see if any progress had been made. That is not tracking, that is not stalking, that is not harassment.
You said before you were not involved. Well, now you are. This thread has now been escalated from defamation to false accusations against me, by you.
For real, stop trying to silence me, @melroy and others by pretending I'm committing crimes, and by trying to install fear of further escalation.
Stop trying to blame me for this situation.
I looked at the kbin git repo, and apparently, it's not a week, but a month.
https://codeberg.org/Kbin/kbin-core
Edit: Misunderstood your post. I thought you meant activity on their git repo.
"Now it seems development has ceased once again and there hasn't been chat on the matrix channels for over a week. Update: that's two weeks now" -
https://kbin.melroy.org/m/fediverse@lemmy.world/t/100460/What-is-going-on-with-Kbin
Kbin is still a thing? Or I guess not...
A lot of people are leaving it due to the interruptions in service, but yeah it still exists.