Today, a technical server malfunction occurred. Unfortunately, it wasn’t the planned update yet. The upcoming one will definitely be much shorter ;)

For the next few hours, there may be some unusual errors. We’re still working on it. I apologize for the inconvenience.

  • Bradley_
    4•2 years ago

    Honestly im so worried about kbin at this point, it feels like when you kinle a bit of fire an then try to make it bigger, while worrying to extinguish the little bit you have. Hope it does grow…

      • yukichigai
        6•2 years ago

        I’m honestly tempted to spin up my own instance as it is. Mostly to tinker with the software, but the fact that I can and relatively easy is pretty neat.

  • doc
    15•2 years ago

    As soon as the site came back up I was looking for any of the changes, so I’m glad you posted. Stinks to have an unplanned outage but I’m looking forward to the planned one! I hope it goes well!

  • Prouvaire
    1•2 years ago

    @ernest might it be an idea to set up a “kbin social status” web page or mastodon account - divorced from the kbin.social server infrastructure - which people could follow and be informed of any site issues which might not be publishable when the kbin.social site itself is down?

  • Spectres
    11•2 years ago

    Thanks for all your hard work, you have created an amazing community and risen to the many challenges that come from the kind of exponential growth this instance has seen.
    Take care of yourself!
    Thank you!

  • Seraph
    7•2 years ago

    You did get my hopes up the update was coming!

    But it’s all good, keep up the great work Ernest!

  • Nominel
    1•2 years ago

    Thanks for running this site, I really enjoy it :)

  • guyrocket
    6•2 years ago

    I wonder how difficult it would be to have a “read only” version of kbin that replaces the full version when things go wrong or maintenance is being done. I’m sure there are other technical solutions, just one thought.

    • Teppic
      15•2 years ago

      Interestingly, because of federation, this sort of happens anyway. If you’d hopped onto another kbin instance, or even Lemmy much of the content from magazines here was still accessable.