/kbin meta @kbin.social ernest @kbin.social 8mo ago

kbin.social update

The instance has been updated to the latest version of the code. For the next few hours, there might be issues with communication in the fediverse. We are working on it, and everything should return to normal shortly. I'll keep you updated.

/kbin devlog @kbin.social ernest @kbin.social 8mo ago

/kbin RTR#8 The update of kbin.social and plans for the near future

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ohhh I like the comment box being at the top
- Wow I don't have to scroll the the bottom of the page to reply anymore
- It moved? Guess I can remove that tampermonkey script then lol
Appreciate your work @ernest even if i get angry at times.
I knew something was happening, because of the downtimes. I appreciate all the work and improvements you and the team behind it are doing. I don't know if this was a thing before, but I like the ability to hide commenter avatar too. And the themes, such a great update.
Fantastic news, Ernest! I'm sure a lot of people will be happy now that that visible domain blocking / posts disappearing fix should be in. :) That was the most visible issue I noticed coming from your kbin.social folks, anyway. Instance level moderation is also a great and welcome addition and I hope you are able to get some volunteers to assist with active moderation, since it's such a large instance.

It's also good to see commits and changes happening on the kbin code in general. While I've moved my instance over to Mbin, I am still rooting for kbin as well - more hands and more ideas in the "community-focused posting" section of the Fediverse can only lead to further improvements as well as more choices for people looking to spin up their own instances, be it Lemmy, kbin, or Mbin.
- Is Mbin new? Do you have a URL for your Mbin instance? Does it have a lot of communities/magazines, and can I follow them through kbin?
  
  Mbin is a very recent fork of kbin so there are very few differences at the moment. My instance does not have a lot of communities as it's a private instance with very few members, so mostly we follow others'. Mine is https://the.coolest.zone
I like that we can see the crosspost activity. I preferred the comment box at the bottom though. Keep up the good work. Kbin is way better than digg anyday.
- I also prefer the comment box at the bottom ;)
  
  Me too. One day maybe we can have both options, but for now, this is great.
  
  Must be weird for you having so many people requesting things all the time. I don't know how I would feel if an avalanche of people asked me to change my work!
Nice, so many improvements!
@ernest I (preemptively) did a summary of the benefits which this update has just brought to kbin.social over on matrix a while back. Will you share a version of that or something similar?
- I'd love to see a changelog, and I'm sure others would love to as well.
  
  I'll try to work on it over the weekend.
- Could you send me a message, as I'm quite behind, to be honest.
  
  https://kbin.social/u/ernest/ernest
  
  I've just sent you a DM
Thanks @ernest this is wonderful!!
I can already see some of the new features in action!
Does anyone have a change log?
- Here's what I could find from ernest's devlog and the codeberg commit history:
  
  Duplicate articles are grouped
  
  Users can apply to be mods
  
  Abandoned magazines can be taken over
  
  Global/instance moderators
  
  Accounts can be temporarily suspended
  
  Magazine deletion
  
  Comment textbox is at the top by default and can be moved
  
  Magazine CSS can be disabled
  
  Edited posts and comments are marked like on Reddit
  
  API
  
  Blocked magazines are filtered out of the dropdown when creating a new thread
  
  Microblog posts can be pinned
  
  Maximum character limits are displayed
  
  Show Password button
  
  The 'boost' text is colored when active
  
  Account deletion button is more clear and obvious
  
  Federation page listing defederated instances
  
  Seems to not be enabled on kbin.social yet though?
  
  Removed the "how to use the editor" button as it wasn't doing anything
  
  Users can request their account activation email be resent
  
  Users can customize the site's CSS in their settings
  
  New option to disable avatars in comments
  
  Improved email styling
  
  Robots.txt (policy for search engine crawlers and chatgpt)
  
  Logged out users cannot initiate federation with new users and magazines anymore
  
  2FA
  
  Clearer wording for the direct link copy options
  
  Thank you. From the post at first I thought it was a maintenance patch, it is strange to receive appreciable new features but without even an announcement with a brief summary of the most notable ones.
By the way @ernest, it looks like the API has not been properly set up on kbin.social - probably an issue with the public/private key set up. I got a 500 error attempting to visit /api/entries
- Yep, I intentionally did not enable the API. After the update, I want to wait through the weekend, make necessary corrections, gather some metrics. If everything is fine, we will enable the API!
Love it
@ernest FYI the login page (https://kbin.social/login) is giving a 404 error.

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