What is going on with kbin - a week has passed with no sign of any life (kbin.melroy.org)

submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by TheVillageGuy@kbin.melroy.org to c/fediverse@lemmy.world

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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.

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[-] melroy@kbin.melroy.org 0 points 8 months ago

This is exactly the reason I forked kbin in the past, the fork is community-focused called Mbin.

[-] Joker@discuss.tchncs.de 11 points 8 months ago

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.

[-] TheVillageGuy@kbin.melroy.org 0 points 8 months ago

Your sympathy for Ernest is good, we all sympathise with him. My main point is and has always been that kbin.social should not be run by one person alone, especially if he's having a hard time in his daily life.

[-] Joker@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 8 months ago

So help him out instead of trying to steal the project out from under him. I see there are other contributors in the kbin repository. This fork comes off as really sleazy.

Ernest put in the work and established a community. Now somebody comes along and tries to move that community over to a fork. That’s some bullshit. Zero creativity with the name too. I wouldn’t be surprised at all if this group tries to monetize this thing if they manage to replace kbin. Community-focused my ass. If it was community-focused, you wouldn’t be on here trying to split the community.

[-] melroy@kbin.melroy.org 3 points 8 months ago

It's a long story.. I did help Ernest / Kbin for quite a while actually. Feel free to contribute to kbin.

[-] TheVillageGuy@kbin.melroy.org 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I have offered him my help, several times, when he finally responded he explained he's bad at excepting help. That's fine, but that's one of the things which, as I've said in this thread before, makes him unsuitable for running kbin.social by himself