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wagesj45

@wagesj45@kbin.social

Great American humorist. C# developer. Open source enthusiast.

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the mbin team says some things that I find concerning about kbin

What are they saying?

[UPDATE] Issues with the functioning of kbin.social (kbin.social)

The main issues with the improper functioning of the instance have been resolved, but it led to additional complications. Currently, using the instance should be quite comfortable, but I will continue to work intensively on a comprehensive solution for the next few days. Therefore, occasional interruptions or errors may still...

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Would love a technical breakdown on what happened!

wagesj45,
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The beginning of reddit was much the same. Things stopped working all the time. Weird bugs popped up. And there were people posting posts like this a lot trying to figure out what was going on.

wagesj45,
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The site seems to be having lots of problems, right now.

wagesj45,
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But if the bad actor blocks everyone, they are putting themselves into a bubble where no one will see their garbage takes.

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Except up and down voting has implications for whether or stuff is visible in certain sorting algorithms.

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But if a troll blocks everyone that down votes them, eventually no one will be left to see their stuff. It is a self solving problem. On the other hand, a troll that you block can interfere with your stuff being shown to others depending on the sorting algorithm.

wagesj45,
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Why did you choose to be a dick about this?

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Yeah. Blocking is hard for a federated system. And that's before the philosophical differences that have popped up in this thread on how blocks should work in theory.

flatearth, to fediverse

Flat earth real life testimony 6/7

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Yj-2dvjjVCY

You can visit and watch the whole 7.
Joyful Christmas in advance! 😀
Joyful Mysteries... 😇

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@flatearth

lol no

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I'm still getting this error. Seems to be related to how long the page is open before the error starts. I have to reload the page and like everything quickly, because after a few minutes it will take me to the error page.

"It's the content, stupid." - Quick Notes to Supercharge K.Bin (kbin.social)

Like you, I'm a passionate user of K.Bin but lately, I'm noticing that things are getting kinda stale around here. The most recent thread in this, the top-level magazine on K.Bin, is 4 days old. Many other top 25 magazines are also suffering from a similar lack of fresh content. I run /m/scifi and it's been continuing to grow...

wagesj45,
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It's time to start posting links to our own blogs, again. Reddit brainwashed us into thinking that "self advertisement" was a bad thing. What they actually wanted you to do was instead turn your content into text posts on reddit itself so that we'd get locked into the platform.

Self advertise. Write interesting things on your blog and then share your posts here.

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and if the content is not interesting, it falls by the wayside with no votes. the creme rises, the cruft falls. with more volume, your will get more cruft, but also more creme.

reddit gets tons of spam and absolute garbage posts, but the volume and user voting brings good stuff out.

there will be some shitty blogs, but i think that's an ok price to pay for more content being posted.

wagesj45,
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I've given myself a deadline to resolve all my issues and release the first official version by the end of September. If I can't meet the deadline, I will step down from leading the project and transfer full rights over the repository and instance to the contributors. Of course, this includes the budget I mentioned earlier, earmarked for instance maintenance.

Silly. Your stewardship is great. Don't let unrealistic timelines get you down, especially ones that are self imposed.

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We're a cruel country that actively chooses to hurt people. I hate it.

wagesj45,
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@ernest is the sole moderator for tons of the most popular/default magazines, and he spends most of his time working on the code for kbin, as far as I know.

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I'm begging for someone to take a look at the CSRF error that is still plaguing the site. Sometimes I can't upvote posts/comments withing 60 seconds of loading a page. I have to hit refresh every single time I want to vote on something or I'm taken to the error page.

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