Abandoned large magazines are being bombarded with spam and admins are nowhere to be seen it seems. Hundreds of spam bot posts have not been deleted for months, see /infosec /internet /opensource /science, etc. and there are some posts about admins not responding to reports. So whats happening here?
I see that non-admins are banning spammers from their communities in mod log but thats not an instance wide ban
are any other instances even federating with kbin after this barrage of unmoderated spam?
The initial split largely seemed to be that people were submitting code fixes and Ernest wasn’t accepting them or updating /KBin fast enough for them. The lack of API that was already done and approved by Ernest and ready to go (that to my knowledge still hasn’t been implemented on KBin!) seemed to have been the last straw that got them traction.
Ernest doesn’t want to band aid fixes, he wants to fix the underlying problems and eliminate the “tech debt” he’s already accumulated rather than letting it continue to pile on to the point that fixing anything becomes unmanageable due to all the band aids. This is GOOD, but it means everything will be much slower. MBin is just pedal to the metal and literally accepting any bit of code at all, which also isn’t really sustainable for a product that people want to use.
At this point, I dunno though, Ernest has been gone for a month and the site has been super slow and blips up and down all the time. I REALLY hope he’s ok, but I’m not sure of the long term viability of /KBin anymore and am wondering what if the next blip just doesn’t get resolved???
I agree on the MBin bros thing, 100%. Their attitude has really made me not want to even consider their project at all. I don’t like the tankie devs on the Lemmy side of things, but, at the same time don’t really think that matters all that much. If they do something bad, people can break off and spin off like MBin did.
To me, ideal world, enough people donate that Ernest can pay himself to work on it full time and maybe hire an extra FT dev (Nabu Casa hires like 30 devs to work on Home Assistant without taking in any VC debt or 3rd party money, so, it’s at least feasible, but they built up 5ish years of goodwill before they spun up Nabu Casa and people were still initially skeptical), but that’s not going to be possible if he disappears constantly so it’s a catch-22.
Seriously though, I really hope he’s ok and this hasn’t been because something happened to him. It’s really ominous that his last communication indicated he had surgery coming up and then complete radio silence
It wouldn’t be impossible to find a middle ground between pushing the pedal to the metal and solving the underlying problems, Mbin has more active maintainers and people who collaborate with pull requests. Considering that, Ernest and the Mbin team/community could work together. We all want the same thing, a quality Kbin working.
Thanks for the explanation :)
Recent news told us that Ernest is alive and kinda well, so that’s a relief; still, the question remains that he probably get help, as developing and adminning could be too much to handle.
Also, like u/Facni also said, there could be a middle ground between the fast&furious of Mbin and the slow&steady of Kbin, and everyone would benefit from it.