I got a response from them on Reddit:

We didn't know which platform would take off, and we were nervous that because Kbin and Lemmy are so similar one platform might shut down in some sort of consolidation down the road. Also when we made them, each had very serious drawbacks for our media (Lemmy needs a lot of clicking to access the media, while kbin turned any media that wasn't in a 3:4 aspect ratio into a funhouse mirror.) So each of us took a community and somewhere down the line we'll re-evaluate.

A quarter of all subreddits are still private or restricted (can't post in them). This includes ones like /r/music or /r/programming. Of the 6 30+ million subscriber subreddits, only 3 have returned to normalcy. One is restricted, two others are in john oliver mode. The developers of Minecraft have officially abandoned Reddit as a platform, and advertisers are still pulling out as well.

There is an open issue about adding a bookmark functionality.

But also, remember not to automatically assume someone with negative reputation is a troll. Given kbin currently doesn't calculate reputation correctly (it counts boosts not upvotes).

I'm putting this as a top level comment, but I mean to be talking here to the people suggesting to report or block, or moderators looking at this and thinking of taking action against trolls.

Not surprising, given they were the only ones serious about advertising. We got so many leaflets from them at work and home and I even saw them on Reddit, yet nothing at all on those distribution channels from any other parties. I've seen some billboards by others, but it feels like 80% of the ones I've seen were SVP.

I personally hate them and didn't vote for them, but I don't think it's surprising they have such a big following.

Worth mentioning they don't know if it's mihoyo or the studio that's at fault here. So there could be some corruption going on, the money flowing in the wrong pockets. Do we know of similar complaints from Japanese / Chinese / Korean voice actors?

Boettger weighed in on the situation with a Twitter thread of her own, stating she hasn't been paid in "months," before adding, "Just to be clear, we don't know if this is the fault of the studio, or the game company. But regardless, if the game was union this wouldn't happen."

Of course, ultimately, mihoyo are the ones who have to act here regardless. So even if the issue isn't with them directly, the longer they wait with resolving the problem the more it'll be their fault for inaction anyway.

It's a shame what has become of them, they made such great games in the past...

kbin is written in PHP, but if you want to contribute, it's opensource on codeberg.

Depends on what the purpose of the button is.

A setting should show the current state, but an action (referring to the play button example) should show the state it'll transition to.

On the other hand, if people really wanted to contribute, there's plenty of open issues on Codeberg that are unadressed. I agree that it would be better to announce plans in advance rather than surprise drop them, but I doubt there would be more contributions from the community.

Ernest linked Patreon and Liberapay on a previous thread. I think both support Paypal.

I don't care if it's animated in 2d or 3d, I just want it to look good. And cgi doesn't automatically make the anime look bad.

What usually makes an anime look bad is obvious cgi used in an otherwise 2d anime. Not always though, Fate/Zero's Berserker is an example of obvious cgi that looked good.

I don't really mind full cgi anime. I'm loving the current Kamierabi, for example. But they look off to me for the first half or full episode before I get used to it. Even Houseki no Kuni was like that. There are of course bad looking full cgi anime, but in general they don't look worse than 2d anime to me.

I also don't mind cgi backgrounds in 2d anime. Dekiru Neko looked amazing and the backgrounds definitely contributed to that, not the opposite.

I usually try out a ton of shows, but also drop a lot of them as the season goes on.
I'll include a rating giving my current opinion to shows I'm watching, obviously subject to change.

Monday:

• Masamune-kun (7)
• Synduality (7)

Tuesday:

• Megane (8)
• Helck (7)

Wednesday:

• Murder Farce (7)
• Cecilia

Thursday:

• Burger Maou

Friday:

• Dekiru Neko (8)
• Nanatsu no Maken (7)
• Ai no Idenshi (6)

Saturday:

• Liar Liar (7)
• Chiisai Senpai (7)
• Temple (7)
• Saikyou Deshita (7)
• Ayaka (6)

Sunday:

• Zom 100 (9)
• Dark Gathering (8)
• Mushoku (7)
• Hero Classroom (6)
• Yohane (5)

Dropped:

• Vending Machine (ep1)
• Last Boss (ep1)
• Level 1 Unique Skill (ep1)
• Ryza (ep1)
• Yumemiru (ep2)

Like alexmitter said, lemmy.ml is blocking incoming requests from kbin instances based on the user agent, a text kbin uses to identify itself to the target server. So kbin can't request any new posts or comments from lemmy.ml.

They aren't formally defederating kbin though, probably because they want to give their users continued access to kbin magazines.

It's not really Steam's choice, they are updating their embedded browser and Chromium dropped support for older versions of Windows, so automatically Steam is forced to drop support too. The alternative is to keep in exploits and bugs that have already been fixed.

For example, I finally learned how something works after months of trying to wrap my head around it. Didn’t end up using it for a few months more, and now I forgot it again. I’m back to square one, trying to relearn things I already learned.

If this is such a frequent problem, start writing down what you've learnt. Get a notetaking app (my personal choice is obsidian) and record any knowledge that took you work to acquire. Then next time you need it you can just check your notes and there it is, instead of having to put all that work into it again.

I looked through the codeberg commits and this is what I could gather:

• Threads about the same article in multiple magazines are grouped together

• Users can apply to be mods

• Abandoned magazines can be taken over

• Global/instance moderators

• Accounts can be temporarily suspended

• Magazine deletion

• Comment textbox is at the top by default and can be moved

• Magazine CSS can be disabled

• Edited posts and comments are marked like on Reddit

• API

• Blocked magazines are filtered out of the dropdown when creating a new thread

• Microblog posts can be pinned

• Maximum character limits are displayed

• Show Password button

• The 'boost' text is colored when active

• Account deletion button is more clear and obvious

• Federation page listing defederated instances

  • Seems to not be enabled on kbin.social yet though?

• Removed the "how to use the editor" button as it wasn't doing anything

• Users can request their account activation email be resent

• Users can customize the site's CSS in their settings

• New option to disable avatars in comments

• Improved email styling

• Robots.txt (policy for search engine crawlers and chatgpt)

• Logged out users cannot initiate federation with new users and magazines anymore

• 2FA

• Clearer wording for the direct link copy options

• edit: New "open original url" option to directly open the url in a new tab rather than just copying the link

• new: Optional Turbo mode, which changes the site so it has the speed of a single-page web application

Here's what I could find from ernest's devlog and the codeberg commit history:

• Duplicate articles are grouped

• Users can apply to be mods

• Abandoned magazines can be taken over

• Global/instance moderators

• Accounts can be temporarily suspended

• Magazine deletion

• Comment textbox is at the top by default and can be moved

• Magazine CSS can be disabled

• Edited posts and comments are marked like on Reddit

• API

• Blocked magazines are filtered out of the dropdown when creating a new thread

• Microblog posts can be pinned

• Maximum character limits are displayed

• Show Password button

• The 'boost' text is colored when active

• Account deletion button is more clear and obvious

• Federation page listing defederated instances

  • Seems to not be enabled on kbin.social yet though?

• Removed the "how to use the editor" button as it wasn't doing anything

• Users can request their account activation email be resent

• Users can customize the site's CSS in their settings

• New option to disable avatars in comments

• Improved email styling

• Robots.txt (policy for search engine crawlers and chatgpt)

• Logged out users cannot initiate federation with new users and magazines anymore

• 2FA

• Clearer wording for the direct link copy options

I can't post someone else's book on my website and charge 5 bucks to read it.

No, but you can read someone else's book and then later write a book inspired by theirs and sell that.

Which is what ai does, as far as I know.

I'm not trying to argue with the rest of your comment, but that middle part looks like false equivalency to me. "I can do this but not that, so why would ai developers be allowed to do this completely different thing" just has no logic to it.

The AI isn't redistributing copies of even sections of the book, it just learnt from it. It's like when you read books and gain an understanding of how they are structured and such and then you write your own book based on what you've learnt from reading books.

seeing "span" and other tags instead of the actual code block

If you're using Firefox or Kiwi, the Kbin Enhancement Suite userscript now has a fix for this. There's also a standalone version here.

Well, for the span tags, I haven't seen other tags being an issue. If you see a code block where the same issue occurs with other tags, tell me so I can update it.

If there is another Reddit exodus, for example, or if we get a surge due to the Threads thing, I feel like many will just turn back due to the UI alone.

I don't know if ernest's views changed since the last exodus, but iirc people joining the platform wasn't really his intention, it just happened. Kbin hasn't even had a proper full release yet, it's still beta software, so I don't think people bouncing off is that big an issue yet.

With the abandonment of Artemis (formerly kmoon), kbin is now only really usable by the mobile site.

That's the case for now, but app development is still happening with other projects:

• ernest has mentioned intentions to revive his kbin app project
• Lemmy's Lunar (ios) app is adding kbin support
• @jwr1 introduced their Interstellar app prototype for Android recently.