What exactly happened for the name to be changed from Kbin to Mbin? I missed that plot point.
this post was submitted on 10 Sep 2024
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Mbin is a fork of Kbin. A lot of users have moved from Kbin instances to Mbin, as the Kbin dev has had some personal life issues that have interfered with his ability to reliably work on the project.
Mbin is a fork that was startend to add some stuff the original Kbin dev didn't like. These days it seems Kbin is dead though, so basically Mbin is the new Kbin.
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Welcome! kbin.melroy.org is the biggest one that I've seen that isn't blocked on my school network. It's run by one of the maintainers (hmmm, m-bin, melroybin?) and uses the latest stable release if that's a plus for you.
To the best of my knowledge, there is no political situation.
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There's a list on the Mbin's website, I'm surprised it wasn't mentioned yet
I can recommend these instances:
- fedia.io (It's the biggest one, so it would be better to avoid for the decentralization)
- kbin.earth
- thebrainbit.org
The later two are run by mbin devs so they should be pretty good
Additionaly there's [email protected] magazine, so you can ask questions there instead.
Have to say, I get that this is unpaid and great volunteering, but that website has pretty bad contrast. Sorry.
I'm the one who made the website. Do you think if we just brightened the outlines around the ui elements that that would help with the contrast?
To me, it looks fine, but if changing something made it better for other people, I'm all for it.
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Somebody need to share it 🤭
Alternatively, setup your own instance is my best advice. If you have some technical skills to setup one. That would help decentralizing the most of course. If you need to help. We are happy to help.
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Try to avoid making an account on one of the main instances (fedia.io, kbin.earth, etc.). List of Mbin instances: ~~https://fedidb.org/software/mbin~~ https://joinmbin.org/servers
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When I created the Mbin fork, I got a lot of hate without any reason. The reason the fork was created was simply because the kbin development was stopping their development. And the project was a bit trapped by a single maintainer. Hence also the reason I introduced C4 spec: https://github.com/MbinOrg/mbin/blob/main/C4.md.
Since C4 spec is in place, I'm not the only maintainer. Multiple people have full rights of the project. But I'm also tired about all the sh*ttalk about us.
If you have any follow-up questions to me personally (I can only speak on my own behalf). Just post them below my comment.
It seems there are always people on the internet who spread negativity about those who actually create things. Best you can do is ignore them.
Apparently so. And I don't even get paid to do development. I also have a full-time job at the same time. So Mbin development takes a lot time and effort. And people don't see that.
I just checked out your website, you have a lot of active projects, impressive! I only work on Lemmy, fulltime, but yet there is way too much work.
Thanks. I do indeed a lot of open source projects in parallel. Besides mbin I also contribute and maintain dozens of open source projects and packages.
https://github.com/melroy89/ is my github.
I also host my own GitLab instance which also host a lot of my projects: https://gitlab.melroy.org/explore/projects
I got a lot of hate without any reason.
I never really got it either, thank you for your work!
I'm using fedia.io and it's very stable. Nice after the instability of kbin.social and kbin.run. although I could be bad luck and causing the devs to run.
@[email protected] is helping us a lot! And the Mbin devs are in close contact with him to keep the server up and running as stable as possible. Both parties are trying to respond quickly. And we all appreciate that a lot! I can't thank Jerry and the Mbin community enough for this.
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