While kbin.social's site mentioned that they were migrating to a new provider, and as a result, the site might be experiencing some issues, kbin.social has been serving up a similar HTTP 50x errors, and that migration message for well over a month, if not more.

What happened?

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[–] PlasticExistence@lemmy.world 110 points 1 month ago (3 children)

The owner of the site (Ernest, IIRC) has some health issues that have kept him from being as active as he had wanted. He also wrote the frontend code as an alternative to the Lemmy software. Mbin continues onward as a fork of Kbin.

I wish him the best. I hope he gets better. I know too well what chronic illness can do to a person.

[–] T156@lemmy.world 34 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Ah, that's unfortunate, but understandable.

[–] _haha_oh_wow_@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 month ago

Fedia.io is an Mbin instance if you want to check it out

[–] cabbage@piefed.social 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Does anyone know if he has given any sign of life the last few months?

[–] abff08f4813c@j4vcdedmiokf56h3ho4t62mlku.srv.us 2 points 1 month ago

Following. I haven't seen any indication in many months but I remain hopeful.

[–] DarkThoughts@fedia.io 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

https://joinmbin.org/ https://github.com/MbinOrg/mbin

[–] abff08f4813c@j4vcdedmiokf56h3ho4t62mlku.srv.us 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

In other words, no signs of life. These just point to mbin as the successor, but no mention of updates on the original edition of kbin or regarding kbin's creator..

[–] DarkThoughts@fedia.io 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I was replying to the top comment and adding mbin links for the sake of ease for other users potentially interested in it. I don't know why you expect me to say anything about kbin or ernest, especially when everything about the matter has already been said.

[–] abff08f4813c@j4vcdedmiokf56h3ho4t62mlku.srv.us 2 points 1 month ago

My apologies, I got threads confused and you are correct that there was no such expectation as you were replying to the top-level comment.

You are also right on your other point - those mbin links are very useful!