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melroy, 11 months ago

I don't know what is happening with Ernest, he said there were families issues. He did respond to me on October 3 for the last time. However, developers were NOT allowed to merge pull requests from others. He stopped developers from merging code. He couldn't let it go, which is a problem if you are not in for weeks or sometimes months. The issue was that development become to a halt, contributors were no longer motivated! I tried to discuss this topic with Ernest multiple times now, without any answers. At some point it was the final straw. I forked the project and introduce a C4 Wow based on trust, allowing dozens of people to have owner rights and giving back the control to the developers, contributors and users or admins.

Moving to GitHub was only done because Codeberg was down too often in the past year. Which was very frustrating when you want to work together with people. So I also moved to GitHub with GitHub Actions during the forking.

simple, 11 months ago

Unfortunate. Kbin is a really cool project but it just isn’t as mature or battle ready as Lemmy. The lack of an API especially is a big sore spot for adoption. I almost joined Fedia when Kbin was under load, but Lemmy’s mobile apps were getting really good at the same time.

I am intending to resurrect it as a lemmy instance, assuming I can sort out how to ensure there are no issues with account keys.

Sounds like a good option, thanks for keeping it alive.

jerry, 11 months ago

The database server absolutely hammered non-stop. Now that we are using mbin instead of kbin, I will be working with the developers on a fix