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The search form has been fixed (if you were experiencing this issue). This time, the Docker recreate may take a bit longer. Moving forward, when making changes, I will create pull requests like everyone else and ask for your review. Sorry for the inconvenience. Soon, the first tagged release will also be available. It's time to start doing things the right way.

"#kbin:matrix.org" - It's the best place to get information or assistance regarding kbin instance administration.
https://app.element.io

The kbin.social instance may experience intermittent interruptions or temporary slowdowns over the next few days. We want to test certain things that are only visible at a larger scale. This will benefit all other instances as all findings will be thoroughly described and shared.

Tomorrow, I will formally hand over the server's maintenance, so the upcoming days and weeks will focus on stabilization. Until now, the experience of kbin from an administrator's perspective could be quite frustrating.

Stay tuned

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[–] ernest@kbin.social 88 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Now I really have to get back to my tasks, as I still have a lot to do today. But tomorrow morning, I will answer your questions. Cheers!

[–] lixus98@kbin.social 40 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Start with these questions: How are you doing? Are you eating well?

[–] olrik@kbin.social 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Nope, just drinking coffee.

[–] ThereAre4Lights@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] olrik@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Maybe you just said that by coincidence but I created a community for #SouthPark here: https://kbin.social/m/SouthPark

If you like the show please don't hesitate to suscribe.

[–] LegendofDragoon@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago

Cheers, man! Make sure not to take too much into yourself! You've earned some rest.

[–] V6277@kbin.social 46 points 1 year ago

I gotta say Ernest, your handling of this whole situation has been above and beyond. It feels strange because even within the open source world, this kind of feedback and transparency isn't common. I feel ver comfortable staying here for the foreseeable future. Thank you!

[–] olrik@kbin.social 18 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Hey @ernest, I bought you a couple of coffees from your About page link and I've invited others to do the same. But is that enough? How do you handle all this traffic? Is buymeacoffe.com your only revenue source for this project? Anyway, keep up the good work and thank you for your frequent updates and open dialogue.

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[–] experbia@kbin.social 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Cool! Just to clarify, are you handing the kbin.social instance itself off to someone else, or only the server hosting/maintenance aspects of it?

I suspect also I speak for many when I say you've done a stellar job so far of responding to an unpredictable explosive increase in users. Thank you!

[–] Otome-chan@kbin.social 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think he means he's switching server hosts. not necessarily handing off administration of the instance.

[–] lixus98@kbin.social 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yes, he's been focusing on performance and stability and almost nothing on code, he will hand over that responsibility so he can focus on code

[–] Otome-chan@kbin.social 11 points 1 year ago

I imagine if he brought on another individual who'd be doing moderating/adminning he'd say who it was lol.

[–] in2erval@kbin.social 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thanks for the update @ernest, I noticed that there's quite a few pull requests piling up on codeberg that requires your attention - will you be looking to merge these soon? Particularly the ones related to SQL injection seems like a high-priority: https://codeberg.org/Kbin/kbin-core/pulls

[–] GauthierPLM@kbin.social 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

He will address the PRs, but to ensure no bad code is added, it should be reviewed + tested, especially for security related issues.
Hopefully the situation will get better very soon and ernest will have more time to review the PRs and issues and fixes will start flowing. But it's his first major open source project, which got a lot of new users, so I can't blame him for moving cautiously.

[–] knoland@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Are there other maintainers charged with reviewing and merging code or just @ernest?

[–] ernest@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

Next week, I also want to organize work on Codeberg.

[–] clb92@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Not to spread fear or anything, but if anyone here reuses their password from elsewhere, you may want to change it everywhere. Maybe @ernest could look through logs to see if the SQL injection has actually been exploited? I assume passwords are hashed and salted, but still...

[–] ernest@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

@clb92 From next week, significant changes in terms of security will occur. I will keep that in mind.

[–] Balssh@kbin.social 12 points 1 year ago

Godspeed ernest. This project of yours was the best thing I encountered on the internet in the recent period <3

[–] BiggestBulb@kbin.social 11 points 1 year ago

Thank you Ernest

[–] stux@forum.fail 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@ernest Thank you mate! Greetings from our Kbin instance :)

[–] LollerCorleone@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

Good to see that you have started a kbin instance as well, stux! Have been a fan of the way you have been doing things with your Mastodon instance!

[–] Shortcake@kbin.social 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Thank you for such amazing and consistent feedback!

[–] supernovae@readit.buzz 4 points 1 year ago

Thanks for the update! Is it safe to pull the current branch and update today or still working out some kinks?

[–] spla@mastodont.cat 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@ernest hello there, can I follow a kbin.social magazine from my kbin instance? thank you!

[–] jclinares@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yes, go to yourkbininstance.com/magazines, and in the search bar there type [at]example[at]kbin.social, and you can subscribe there.

[–] spla@mastodont.cat 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] spla@mastodont.cat 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] eee@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@spla You need to do what @jclinares wrote, but with that search form yourkbininstance.com/search

[–] spla@mastodont.cat 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@eee I get 500 server error. Log shows "php.CRITICAL: Uncaught Error: App\Service\ActivityPub\ApHttpClient::getInstancePrivateKey(): Return value must be of type string, null returned"

@ernest @jclinares

[–] ernest@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

https://codeberg.org/Kbin/kbin-core/wiki#configuration-1

docker compose exec php bin/console kbin:ap:keys:update

[–] jclinares@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

What Kbin magazine are you trying to subscribe to? And in what instance?

[–] VulcanSphere@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

Great update, keep up the good work!

[–] kjr@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

@ernest Great update! Thanks a lot and take care of your self!

[–] cendawanita@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

Thank you so much Ernest! I've bought you some coffee as well!

[–] symfonystation@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

@ernest Please set aside some time to rest up. Great job and thanks for bringing Symfony to the Fediverse.

[–] ElectronSoup@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I suspect /m/FuckingFascists is probably going to get kbin defederated from everywhere, which is clearly their intent :(

eta: Ugh, there's a whole slew of magazines they're using under the pretense of being roleplay kink, horrible, and definitely going to end up causing friction IMO.

[–] Deceptichum@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've tried following the docker guide multiple times now but keep failing when running it at the end in relation to no var folder and no vendor/Symfony.

Is there somewhere I can get some help with this or does anyone else have a better guide?

[–] C8H10N4O2@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Keep kicking ass dude 🤘

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