From this post (https://sopuli.xyz/post/15865566) on !AskMbin@fedia.io
It’s very likely related, but we also figured out that both of debounced’s (the admin of kbin.run) accounts on GitHub and Matrix were deleted last night. So there is a possibility that kbin.run is no more.
Well I started on kbin.social, migrated to kbin.run…
Are there any other servers anyone would like me to ruin?
How do you feel about stomaching 4chan for a few weeks?
Not even for the betterment of humanity would I dare venture into such places…
lemmygrad.ml, hexbear.net, truthsocial.com, x.com, etc
You could try fedia.io if you prefer the Kbin/Mbin interface over Lemmy
I started using Fedia.io
As of a few minutes ago I’m getting a 502 Bad Gateway error and having flashbacks….
Seems to be fixed!
Nooo
Well, it could be you, or it could be me, as I’ve hit the same waypoints.
fedia.io wasn’t taking sign-ups at the time I went to kbin.run, but they are right now, so that’s where I’ve ended up this time.
If this one dies too, I guess I’ll take the jinx with me back to Reddit and see what happens there.
fedia.io , its an mbin which is a branch from kbin
Kbin.run was running mbin too
I’ve had the same path; started out on .social, then moved to .run. Now I’m on fedia.io wondering when I’ll have to scout out a fourth.
Just made an account. I need time to go through and set up my subscriptions.
After I kbin.socials constant issues I moved to Leemy.world and like it a lot better. I miss magazines as opposed to communities, but it’s pot-ato po-tato and there don’t seem to be any outages.
I actually miss the microblog integration on vanilla kbin, but I don’t think we’ll ever get that back.
I might just finally give up and settle on lemmy. There are a lot of really good apps for it these days.
Where you also on vlemmy.net and iusearch.fyi?
You’re like a threadiverse nijū hibakusha.
Same. I had literally just recommended .run a couple of days ago. This is getting really old, honestly.
Fedia.io is managed by an admin which has a long story of managing fediverse services, you should be safe.
Here’s hoping it is fine. I had tried to sign up here rather than .run but had issues at that time. Cheers!
Yikes. Always sad / concerning to see an instance (and its admins) just drop off the map w/o warning.
The GH and Matrix accounts disappearing is also telling. The DNS record for kbin.run is no longer found at all, so that indicates the owner deliberately deleted it rather than just shutting off the servers. Had the Github account remained active, I’d suspect something more benign like issues with their registrar,. But with the GH account deleting too, I’m leaning toward some kind of intentional scuttle (don’t want to even speculate on why since there’s nowhere near sufficient information to even guess).
Not sure what their Matrix handle/homeserver was, but if they hosted it under the same domain, it would make sense for that to disappear too if there were registrar issues. Again, the GH deletion seems to be the telling factor.
Amusingly, this comment from Elevator7009 one week ago seems to have aged like milk: https://lemmy.world/post/18248042 (LW link since the canonical kbin.run one won’t work, obv).
Why do Kbin admins keep disappearing under weird circumstances? Is Kbin made with black voodoo magic? Do cenobites come out of the server box and take them to hell?
It’s because coding in PHP makes you want to leave for a tropical beach and never come back to the nightmare.
Yeah that’s really really accurate.
Yup, just moved from there to fedia now. Kbins spirit affects all
Oof. Worst way to go. I mean, doing so for personal accounts is fine but that’s a lot of collateral in form of the users there. People always say to spread out over instances, but then shit like this happens. Most users don’t want to run from one instance to another because the admins decided to stop (or due to other issues with them).
I guess that explains the 500s here on Fedia?
The question is when fedia does the same? It’s as if these instances were hosted by extremely unstable people.
Jerry has been pretty good at communicating so far. Even back when it was kbin he announced early that they might have to switch to Lemmy because of all the issues, before finding out about mbin and switching to that. Mbin has been a little bumpy too but updates and fixes come in frequently and as a user you can feel the platform changing and evolving too. So I’m not too worried about fedia just vanishing from one day to another.
Kbin no run
Kbin do(n)t run
Oh, I created an account there two days ago.
@Blaze@sopuli.xyz A sad thing is, that even if MBin had account migration implemented, it wouldn’t really help, as it just got down without a notice or a warning
Oh indeed
just wanted to post on the incredibly low chance debounced ever sees this that I hope he’s ok and wish him well with whatever happened
What is the name knbin?
