kbin.earth meta

Traffic seems to have jumped quite high in the past few days for whatever reason and has caused major slowdowns, so unfortunately, I had to perform another server upgrade.

The server's resources were doubled, but the price of the server has more than doubled. Just a few days ago, I received my first sponsorship 🎉, so I just wanted to thank them if they are reading this. If anyone else would like to help pay for server costs, you can use one of the donation links on the about page.

I'm sure y'all have noticed, but over the past 2 days or so, kbin.earth has had hours at a time where it would just timeout all network requests (and therefore, not let you connect). I'm not exactly sure what's going on or what's causing this issue, but I am trying different things to hopefully fix it.

Please be patient in the meantime.

As the title says, several users have noticed issues with their posts and comments not federating. The pattern seems be that there are issues if you are posting to a Lemmy server that's on v0.19.5 (for example, federation to lemmy.world seems to be working fine, they're only on v0.19.3). Please be patient while we investigate.

Additionally, incoming federation seems to be working just fine, so you shouldn't notice a lack of posts or comments or anything like that.

Edit: please see my comment about the fix down below

This server is now running Mbin v1.7.0. Let me know if you run into any issues.

Here are the user-facing changes listed below (copied from here):

• Full federation with PeerTube: threads are created for new uploads, synced likes, dislikes and comments
• Direct messages will work across servers now, supporting lemmy instances (mastodon private mentions are not working, yet). We added a button on the profile page of users as well
• we completely redesigned the messages view to resemble a chat interface
• Pinning and unpinning entries will now federate
• We now support push notifications. They can be enabled on the notifications page (/settings/notifications). If you do not see a button for enabling push notifications, that usually means that your browser does not support them
• New supported languages: Brazilian Portuguese, Danish, Filipino, Galician
• Modlog changes:
  • the instance wide modlog now includes the magazine in which the moderator action occurred
  • adding and removing a moderator are now shown in the modlog
• creating threads on magazines can now be restricted to moderators and we added support for remote magazines that already have this setting enabled
• Add a cake day display on the profile page and the user popup
• we increased the cookie lifetime, so you do not have to login as regular as before (7 days -> 3 weeks)
• you can now hide the related panels via the appearence settings
• there are now notifications for reports
  • created: admins, global mods, magazine mods
  • approved: reported user
• When editing a thread that is posted to a remote magazine hosted on an mbin instance the edit will now correctly federate
• We updated the federation page. It now shows federated, defederated and dead instances. It also shows the software and the version of it the instance is running on
• When editing your profile or a magazines profile, your changes should be visible on remote instances nearly instantly
• we show a leaf icon next to users and magazines which have been active for less than 30 days now
• when editing a thread you can now edit all fields
• fix the aggressive fetching of the URL field when editing it

kbin.earth now has 102 users (and 61 monthly active users at the moment)! I know this isn't a lot compared to the other big fediverse servers, but I still think it's a milestone to celebrate. Additionally, according to FediDB, kbin.earth is actually the 3rd most active Mbin server, behind kbin.run and fedia.io!

As a way to celebrate, I thought we should give kbin.earth its own icon. Attached to this post are the (very) rough drafts of a few icon designs I came up with. Please comment which ones you prefer and what kind of improvements/changes you think could be made. If you'd like, feel free to come up with your own designs too. (Also, as a disclaimer, I did take some inspiration from lemmy.world's icon.)

For me personally, I think 2 & 5 have too much color, so I'd say they're my least favorite. Honestly, I think I'd prefer either 1, 4, or 7.