cross-posted from: https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/4735963
Learned about this fork from a post about a potential shutdown of Fedia.io, a Kbin instance.
https://lemmy.world/post/6797580
As you can see in the comments, https://kbin.run/ already moved to Mbin.
Interesting to see if that can help with the development of new features compared to kbin being managed mostly by the main developer.
The general issue of Kbin is that most of the development has to be approved by the main contributor of the project.
This fork is meant to be easier to contribute to. Let’s see how it evolves.
It makes sense to approve things and keep navigating in one direction. What was the original problem?
The problem with kbin is that the project maintainer was leaving PRs to rot for months. Even things like PRs to update dependencies for security patches weren’t getting updated. The community-based one looks to resolve that by running by simple consensus.
I’m not sure I agree that’s a good idea, giving full governance to the community like that, but since Kbin’s development has slowed, and the app itself has proven itself to be less-than-desireable to maintain, this is a good chance at finding new direction.
Thanks for the explanation. Since KBin is more fragmented and does not build up enough steam for further development, it’s maybe a better option to move to Lemmy at this point.
Lemmy is also kind of struggling to get contributors onboard due to Rust not being that popular for Web.
Maybe mbin will become a viable equivalent just by having more contributors. Let’s see
I wonder if a platform that’s using more enterprise-y components would make things easier to onboard contribs? Java/Kotlin in Spring Boot w/React?
With the right contribution guidelines and solid PR pipelines to ensure code quality, it seems like pretty much any engineer could hop in and start developing. Especially if local resources like containers could be leveraged to allow rapid development.
That could work. I’m always surprised that with 30k monthly active users, most of them tech people, there’s not a few Java dev who started a project