I don’t mind waiting for things to be fixed what with life interfering with things, but I can’t find any activity from Ernest lately. He hasn’t been, like… hit by a bus or anything terrible like that, has he?

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    4 months ago

    It’s such a shame, I really hope Ernest is ok. And I guess the once again lesson here is something like this needs a dev team and not just one person.

    I’ll stick around for a few more days to see what’s going on, but if nothing changes I guess I’ll have to move on to something else.

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      Considering his last post was about going to the hospital for a few days, over a month ago, I suspect he’s not okay.

      Regardless, I just cancelled my $5/mo donation towards the development of the kbin software. Seeing as how there hasn’t been any development in over a month.

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      That’s about where I am, honestly. I’m starting to look for alternatives.

      I can deal with the site having the occasional problem, but I can’t deal with absolutely no communication at all when things break down. Kbin has gotten too big to be a one-person operation.

      This is now the fourth post I’ve seen about people starting to get fed up, and honestly, you know people are starting to hit their limits once people start making posts about their frustrations. I bet a lot of folks have just quietly given up or moved to lemmy or mbin because they’ve gotten frustrated with all the issues.

      I’m a pretty patient person and can put up with a lot of goofiness on a site, as long as there’s some kind of communication happening. But there’s none.

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        I bet a lot of folks have just quietly given up or moved to lemmy or mbin because they’ve gotten frustrated with all the issues.

        I guess it’s not quiet once I post this, but I submitted the account deletion request a couple weeks back and spent some time setting my feedly back up after 1 too many spam posts. I’m already getting my scrolling fix from rss feeds again, and this is the first time I’ve been on kbin in a week.

        tl;dr: you’re right.

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          It doesn’t help that whenever this comes up there’s a contingent of users who jump to Ernest’s “defense” by calling the folks raising these issues “concern trolls” and accusing them of shilling for mbin.

          No, this is simply a matter of what is actually working well. The point of federation is that one shouldn’t need to have “loyalty” to any particular instance or any particular platform. Use whichever one’s working.

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        @stopthatgirl7 Same. I poked around beehaw a bit, but I am not sure its is good fit for me. Think I will check out lemmy.world, they seem to be really communicative on mastodon during their upgrade process.

        But that’s all I know about it. I am looking into mbin,too…but I really don’t much about it.

        I have been spending most of my social media time on mastodon lately.

        @PugJesus @Oofnik

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        4 months ago

        I was at that point last week and ended up biting the bullet and migrating my subscriptions over to this account. Really wish there was a first class account migration tool available though.

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          Lol, i thought it was the other account. Well, goes to show the mbin instances are pretty much the same. I ended up with kbin.run