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Thank you for your thread @green_copper, I have been looking into the issue and figured out one of the commits recently pushed to Mbin was borked (which I had updated to yesterday). I've reverted the commit and that seems to have fixed things.

The server is now working at max capacity to catch back up on federation, but it could take over a few hours, as the queue had over a million messages built up.

Thanks!

Since yesterday no external posts come in and also the votes are not synced.

Is it just me and if not is there already a suspicion what may cause this?

Exactly the title. I was considering setting up a PieFed server since that seems to be all the rage, and I thought I'd ask if y'all would have any interest in that.

It would be run with exactly the same polices as kbin.earth is run: lite defederation, be respectful, no spam, and no porn.

To add some info, PieFed doesn't have microblog capabilities yet, but it does have quite a lot of features that Mbin does not have, such as Feeds (combined community views), and the moderation/administration tools seem to be off the scale (in a good way).

I will admit, PieFed's API is nowhere near as mature as Mbin's, and definitely not Lemmy's, because that's just not what the PieFed developers are focusing on. Interstellar does provide PieFed support though.

Over the past week, I've seen the network traffic more than double from the usual amount, which has caused major noticeable slowdowns here. The total network bandwidth has gone from ~25GB on May 10th to ~58GB today.

I'm currently investigating the cause of the spike, but have not found anything yet. I can only assume it's from some form of DDOS attack.

In the meantime, I have temporarily doubled our server resources to account for the increased strain, which will hopefully reduce the number of slowdowns everybody's encountering. I'm hoping that sometime in the next few days, I will be able to figure out the root cause of the issue so we can get things back to normal.

Thank you for your patience.

Hello, thanks so much for this instance. Twice from two different instances now, I can see and reply to posts, then not see other comments or my own replies in the thread shown to me unless someone directly replies to me, or I visit the original URL.

lemm.ee and Lemmy.ca

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.

...

JK, but happy April 1st to everybody!

I had a pm suggesting that 2010s Music,

"would do better if it actually had the word "music" in the /c name, i.e. !2010smusic"

https://kbin.earth/m/2010s

Is there a possibility to change it or do I have to delete and create a new magazine? TIA

I stuck it out on kbin.social for as long as it lasted, and just sort of swore off social media after it finally went under. Yet here I am...

So does anyone have the "let me explain, no there is too much, let me sum up" of the last 2 years? What sexy new features did mbin pick up while I was gone?

I noticed pages were taking a bit longer than expected to load, so I ended up upgrading to a new server. It already seems faster (and let's hope it stays that way too). As always, let me know if you notice any peculiarities that might have been caused by the upgrade.

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.

Over the last week, I tried to create two posts in a lemmy.world magazine. Both of them never showed up in the magazine when looked up outside of kbin.earth.

So I am interested in if I am the only one with this issue or if this is a wider known problem?

Hello,

I hope this is the scope of this community. I was having a look at https://mbin.fediverse.observer/list, and kbin.earth being the second biggest mbin instance got me curious: where is the instance hosted? I had a look at the "About" page, but it didn't mention it.

Thank you for your work with this instance!

Over the past 2 days, kbin.earth has been returning server errors on occasion (due to various reasons), making kbin.earth inaccessible. I have been looking into it but haven't found the root cause of the issue yet. Please bear with me while I investigate.

If you'd like to follow along with the status, you can join the kbin.earth matrix room. Reporting whenever you notice an error/outage also helps.

Thanks

Traffic seems to have jumped quite high in the past few days for whatever reason and has caused major slowdowns, so unfortunately, I had to perform another server upgrade.

The server's resources were doubled, but the price of the server has more than doubled. Just a few days ago, I received my first sponsorship 🎉, so I just wanted to thank them if they are reading this. If anyone else would like to help pay for server costs, you can use one of the donation links on the about page.

I'm sure y'all have noticed, but over the past 2 days or so, kbin.earth has had hours at a time where it would just timeout all network requests (and therefore, not let you connect). I'm not exactly sure what's going on or what's causing this issue, but I am trying different things to hopefully fix it.

Please be patient in the meantime.

As the title says, several users have noticed issues with their posts and comments not federating. The pattern seems be that there are issues if you are posting to a Lemmy server that's on v0.19.5 (for example, federation to lemmy.world seems to be working fine, they're only on v0.19.3). Please be patient while we investigate.

Additionally, incoming federation seems to be working just fine, so you shouldn't notice a lack of posts or comments or anything like that.

Edit: please see my comment about the fix down below

This server is now running Mbin v1.7.0. Let me know if you run into any issues.

Here are the user-facing changes listed below (copied from here):

• Full federation with PeerTube: threads are created for new uploads, synced likes, dislikes and comments
• Direct messages will work across servers now, supporting lemmy instances (mastodon private mentions are not working, yet). We added a button on the profile page of users as well
• we completely redesigned the messages view to resemble a chat interface
• Pinning and unpinning entries will now federate
• We now support push notifications. They can be enabled on the notifications page (/settings/notifications). If you do not see a button for enabling push notifications, that usually means that your browser does not support them
• New supported languages: Brazilian Portuguese, Danish, Filipino, Galician
• Modlog changes:
  • the instance wide modlog now includes the magazine in which the moderator action occurred
  • adding and removing a moderator are now shown in the modlog
• creating threads on magazines can now be restricted to moderators and we added support for remote magazines that already have this setting enabled
• Add a cake day display on the profile page and the user popup
• we increased the cookie lifetime, so you do not have to login as regular as before (7 days -> 3 weeks)
• you can now hide the related panels via the appearence settings
• there are now notifications for reports
  • created: admins, global mods, magazine mods
  • approved: reported user
• When editing a thread that is posted to a remote magazine hosted on an mbin instance the edit will now correctly federate
• We updated the federation page. It now shows federated, defederated and dead instances. It also shows the software and the version of it the instance is running on
• When editing your profile or a magazines profile, your changes should be visible on remote instances nearly instantly
• we show a leaf icon next to users and magazines which have been active for less than 30 days now
• when editing a thread you can now edit all fields
• fix the aggressive fetching of the URL field when editing it

kbin.earth now has 102 users (and 61 monthly active users at the moment)! I know this isn't a lot compared to the other big fediverse servers, but I still think it's a milestone to celebrate. Additionally, according to FediDB, kbin.earth is actually the 3rd most active Mbin server, behind kbin.run and fedia.io!

As a way to celebrate, I thought we should give kbin.earth its own icon. Attached to this post are the (very) rough drafts of a few icon designs I came up with. Please comment which ones you prefer and what kind of improvements/changes you think could be made. If you'd like, feel free to come up with your own designs too. (Also, as a disclaimer, I did take some inspiration from lemmy.world's icon.)

For me personally, I think 2 & 5 have too much color, so I'd say they're my least favorite. Honestly, I think I'd prefer either 1, 4, or 7.