Glad I could help! I wasn't aware either you were giving up hope.
Since Mbin is community-focused I really hope this will result in a better connection, collaboration and both bug fixes and new features what the users and the admins wants. Again, Mbin isn't about me, I forked it because I want to create a community build on trust giving back the control to the developers and users. You now also have GitHub owner rights on the organization as you know. We are all maintainers!
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@jerry it really does take a crisis to make changes some times, doesn't it. I'm glad you found a solution!
Me too!
This is great news! I'm so glad that you found a solution that didn't involve killing the instance. Also, I've been trying to connect with Linus Torvalds account on social.kernel.org since I started on fedia but it never worked. Well it finally is! Thank you for working so hard on it.
Hello everyone. If you care about fedia.io, please read this: https://fedia.io/m/fedia/t/350673
Note: it’s good news-ish
@jerry User count is funny. 😇
@konsi where does that view come from?
It's fedidb: https://fedidb.org/software/mbin
EDOT: Who gets it from here: https://fedia.io/nodeinfo/2.0
@jerry This is an interesting one! Too-aggressive nginx pattern match? https://fedia.io/m/fedia/t/350673/Big-update-for-Fedia-io-it-s-not-going-anywhere#entry-comment-2075163
Hope you get some rest :blobcatheart:
ok - this is fixed now
Thank you for all your hard work. You and @melroy haven't given up on this community, and I'll stand by you too. I embrace the jank and appreciate the fine communities we've made here.
Melroy deserves all the credit
Thanks for all your hard work! I was not looking forward to Fedia going offline...
@jerry Hey, I had previously posted about this, but https://fedia.io/m/FirefoxCSS seems to be totally broken (404 error). Is this something you can look into (perhaps with the mbin folks)?
Thanks for everything you have done!
There are a few specific issues like that I have yet to solve.
Ok. I found the problem and will have this fixed shortly
mbin? Is kbin dead?
Officially not.. but the development slowed down too much and was too restricted by Ernest. I wanted to avoid a fork. But I didn't saw any good alternative.
Is Ernest OK? Maybe the explosion of interest was a bit too much to handle right now. Out of curiosity, why did you fork it to github and not stay on codeberg?
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.
Ps. this issue was already going on for the past few months. Causing Kbin development to slowly halt further and further.
Thanks you for the background. Pity codeberg was down so often. Probably german internet, lul.
Hadn't heard of C4Wow. Looks like you could add MBin to the list of implementations at the bottom of the page.
Good luck! I hope it works out :)
I was also trying to prevent a fork, but I didn't saw any way out. Hence the fork by the community, for the community. I hope so as well, the idea is that we work as a real team and active contributors have GitHub owner rights. We peer-review each other code and are allowed to merge pull requests. There is no single maintainer, we are all maintainers.
It appears so