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A magazine dedicated to the kbin.earth Mbin instance. Official announcements and maintenance updates are made here, but also feel free to ask questions or request support.

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kbin.earth maintenance complete! (kbin.earth)
submitted 1 day ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Thank you all for your patience, and sorry for the huge downtime. I think it ended up being down about 40 minutes or so.

Luckily, I was able to get kbin.earth migrated over to the new Mbin Docker setup! This new setup means the Docker is now officially supported by Mbin, whereas it wasn't really recommended before.

And this new Docker setup was actually made in-house by ... me! I guess I'm officially an Mbin contributor now :)

Anyway, the other big thing I accomplished was upgrading the Postgres major version from 13 to 17 (the latest), which is quite a big jump! Actually, this database upgrade was really what took so long; the migration could have been done in ~5 minutes otherwise.

As always, let me know if you notice any peculiarities or issues caused by this migration.

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kbin.earth is switching to Lemmy! (kbin.earth)
submitted 2 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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JK, but happy April 1st to everybody!

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Upgraded to Mbin v1.8.0! (kbin.earth)
submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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It brings an extensive bookmarking system, signup request support, signup notifications, extended markdown rendering, custom notification settings to set magazines, users, threads and microblogs to default, loud or muted, setting a default sort for the front page and comment lists, a new image delete command for admins and documentation changes.

See this thread for a detailed review of the update: https://gehirneimer.de/m/mbinReleases/t/486586

As a reminder, if you'd like to help support the kbin.earth instance financially, there are a few donation links in the about page.

Also, for those who use Interstellar, expect an update sometime soon that will utilize some of these new features. Unfortunately, there is a bug in the Mbin API that will not let me add custom notification settings controls quite yet to Interstellar, but bookmarking in the app will be supported.

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kbin.earth federation problems fixed (kbin.earth)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Recently, I've noticed federated threads/comments/votes were lagging behind, and it turns out kbin.earth was being spammed (hundreds in a minute, leading to a couple thousand queued messages after only half an hour) by a Lemmy server with the same exact activity pub message. After blocking the server (feddit.de), federation should now work correctly. If the admins of the server ever fix the issue, I'll be glad to unblock it.

Edit: turns out, this was probably actually a kbin issue, but at least it's fixed the issues temporarily.