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[–] OpenStars@discuss.online 16 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (18 children)

According to that website, Kbin.Social has >10x more registered users (had? looks like it only counts accounts) than all Mbin servers combined.

At this point people need to stop being surprised - whether he is sick or whatever the cause, this is by no means a rare occurrence for that instance.

[–] SuperSpaceFan@lemm.ee 4 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (6 children)

I'm not sure of the accuracy of the user count for kbin, because account deletion requests, at least for kbin.social, are not being processed.

[–] OpenStars@discuss.online 2 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I believe it, but I already did not trust those numbers for a different reason - e.g. I abandoned my account there six months ago to come to where I am at now, so technically I have an account and yet I've been there like 6 times since then and commented or interacted fewer than that.

Still, the total user count represents a "high mark" that it had once reached, and the Mbins collectively still seem far away from that. But good point, b/c how many accounts are e.g. alts or deleted from Mbin successfully but from Kbin that request gets ignored.

"Activity" would be a better measurement. Down below in some of the other replies we looked into that, and I think technically Kbin.Social is still fairly active, more so than the Mbins, but overall the Mbins are obviously in a healthier state with fewer of these insanely long (weeks-long) outages.

Btw, in my link above (for "sick"), Ernst mentioned that:

The care of the instance will also be handed over.

So it looks like things will change at Kbin.Social regardless of his health & life issues.

[–] SuperSpaceFan@lemm.ee 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] OpenStars@discuss.online 3 points 5 months ago

I for one hope that he goes back to what he seemed to enjoy the most: writing the code. Let someone else handle the admin duties, which he mostly abandoned anyway. We would get the non-Lemmy codebase enhanced, while he would get the fun of chasing his passion:-).

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