Mbin Blog Updates

Just compare the number of upvotes on https://kbin.melroy.org/m/technology@beehaw.org/t/202515/Ask-ChatGPT-to-pick-a-number-between-1-and-100 and time how long it takes the do that.

Mbin patch release 1.5.1 is out. Which is an important update for server admins to upgrade as soon as possible in order to fix sending emails (both during registration form as well as contact form). This patch release was created to fix those email issues....

Mbin release version 1.5.0 is out today....

After 1.4.0 release we found some minor issues, it's wise to update your instance to the latest 1.4.1 patch release if you didn't had already....

Has changes to the messenger queue layout, the background worker system....

We released version 1.3.0 of Mbin today....

A community-focused fork of Kbin, which has tons of improvements, features and bug fixes. Mbin is a federated content aggregator, voting, discussion and microblogging platform....

In the past months development of Kbin slowly came to a halt, development was bottlenecked by a single maintainer. I have tried several times to start a discussion about the way of working and trying to address the problems and to come up with a plan to keep development doing and more importantly keep contributors happy!...

I pushed recently various sql improvements into the develop branch: https://codeberg.org/Kbin/kbin-core/commits/branch/develop...

Yes you heard that right, we are planning for the first /kbin release. Currently most server admins are running directly from the develop branch since /kbin is still in very (early) active development....

See my TIL post

They mentioned that were blocking all 'bot' user-agent strings, which unintentionally also blocked /kbin bot....

Dear kbin server owners, upgrade your Kbin instance now! Ernest just merged a critical hot fix into the develop branch....

In the past weeks lemmy.ml was activity blocking all /kbin instances by looking at the user-agent string "KbinBot" (case-insensitive). Which causes quite a few problems on several /kbin instances, because lemmy.ml didn't want to federate with 'us'....

Currently, the kbin.social instance has planned maintenance. They are busy upgrading the infrastructure to Kubernetes, using Docker containers. They said it shouldn't take much longer than 1 hour downtime in total (if everything goes fine)....

Today kbin.social is blocking a huge list of domains just to get federation working again....

As you may notice, kbin.social experience several federation issues. @ernest is fixing deleting / editing remote instances problem on the current develop branch. Furthermore, 450k messages are still in the queue on kbin.social again, causing those federation issues....

Don't forget you can change the look & feel of kbin. Go to the setting (gear icon) menu. And try out all the options....

Kbin is actively in development. Almost each day Ernest will merge multiple PRs. I'll keep this instance as much as up-to-date as possible. So you will get the latest improvements and fixes as soon as possible.