Like the title says, if you want to upvote something on KBin, you should use the Boost link, not the upvote button (Why? Don’t know…)

The upvote button doesn’t seem to do much, but Boost accomplishes what Reddit’s upvote did. So if you’re looking to encourage a post, use the Boost link.

  • BedSharkPal@kbin.social
    4·
    1 year ago

    Do we know if there have been any releases since the influx of users? Or are they just focusing on backend stuff still?

    There’s still a lot of long hanging fruit *COUGHcollapsingthreads that would be great to have addressed sooner rather than later.

    • ChillChillinChinchilla@kbin.social
      11·
      1 year ago

      they

      It’s just one guy. We were a bit worried if he was even sleeping when the first big wave hit and he kept everything up by cloudflare and prayer.

        • lohrun@fediverse.boo
          8·
          1 year ago

          Yeah there are a bunch of us in the dev chat now. Some of us have set up our additional kbin instances such as myself. I’m still looking through the code and getting up to speed but hope to contribute to the main code base soon. (Right now I’m experimenting with some features I wrote on my instance)

          So yes, it’s mainly been Ernest up until this point but he is starting to get additional support from the community :)

            • lohrun@fediverse.boo
              4·
              1 year ago

              Thank you! I’m excited to see the site grow as well. We seem to be building a nice place to hangout and have good discussions unlike the site that shall not be named.

              (Also love your username)

              • ernest@kbin.social
                12·
                1 year ago

                Yes, there is a very strong team there now, and I will gradually delegate responsibility in certain areas. I need to focus on my own milestones. However, I want to do it slowly because there are many pitfalls here that are a consequence of kbin being a side project. But the organization on Matrix was amazing, and I didn’t even lift a finger for it.

                @BedSharkPal @Upvotes_Kills_Birds

                • dejf@kbin.social
                  2·
                  1 year ago

                  Your level of engagement with the community is absolutely spectacular. I’m glad to have found myself a cozy little Internet space and wish you the best of luck with this one hell of a side project!

                • lucidwielder@kbin.social
                  1·
                  1 year ago

                  Is any of this code open sourced, or on GitHub, gitlab, etc? Is the matrix channel private or open to any coders?

    • Kichae@kbin.social
      2·
      1 year ago

      There have been fixes submitted by volunteers, but I don’t think they’ve been reviewed and approved. And I don’t think there have been any new releases.

      Hopefully things pick up speed now that Ernest has a server admin to look after things here

    • AnonymousLlama@kbin.social
      1·
      1 year ago

      You can have a look here to see a test instance with some of the things that are coming, Ernest (the admin) has been merging in a range of tickets including bug fixes, UI improvements and other bits.

      There seems to be an ever growing backlog of feature requests and bug fixes in the issues list but a fair bit is getting sorted out behind the scenes.

      I’m mostly focused on UI/UX for mobile.