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I’m not one to knock a developer on their software. Making things like kbin are complex and they certainly take effort to maintain and improve. That being said, these are my complaints about the management of kbin:
Why is there hardly ever any feedback from Ernest about why kbin is down? It just comes back up and that’s the end of it, until the next outage. A link to an explanation, or detailed banner message, or a schedule would be nice, assuming that these outages are scheduled.
Why has Ernest insisted on being the only developer to work on this? This creates a potential “single point of failure” situation.
None of the git issues on Codeberg seem to get triaged or responded to.
Ernest rarely responds to DMs on kbin.
At this point, I think I’m just going to create an alternate Lemmy account to avoid these blackouts.
@NegativeLookBehind pretty sure this outage was unscheduled, as Ernest usually warns us
You should. I have accounts all over the fediverse, probably one of the reasons I don't get angsty if my main on kbin's down.
Where are the warnings? If they’re in some particular magazine that maybe not every user is subscribed to, then this is a bad practice.
@NegativeLookBehind kbinDevlog. Personally I feel pretty chill about it.
I don't think Ernest owes us anything. It's his early development project, he didn't specifically invite me here. I just showed up one day, and feel grateful to be able to come along for the ride.
Cool, and I respect that. And I respect Ernest for what he does and he doesn’t owe anyone anything at all. But if you open source a thing and then almost completely ignore your user base, it’s just a bit disappointing.