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Ootl, what was wrong with kbin that led to the fork? I thought Ernest had quite a bit of support from the community
@wahming @yogthos I have this same question. What motivated the fork?
@ReedLindwurm The Fork was created as there's a few things that the community of Kbin don't enjoy as well as the creator of Kbin has had some personal issues as of late and has publicly said they won't be able to work on the project for a bit. Also Kbin has had a lot of errors and slowdown as of late what Mbin has and is working on fixing regularly what is really nice.
don't know what the background story is, just ran across the fork and figured I'd share it
@yogthos Quite fair; I was just curious.
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@wahming @ReedLindwurm https://kbin.melroy.org/m/updates/t/55330/Mbin-is-born-Fork-of-kbin
that seems like a pretty sensible reason, open source working as intended
Yea this is the power of open-source indeed. See also my response to "stu" a little down below in this same thread.
@melroy @yogthos @wahming @SamXavia (et al.) Thank you for the explanation! While I'm not a kbin user myself (I just have a Lemmy account), I'm still glad (as a threadiverse and fediverse user) there are people keeping the project going and developing it. I can definitely understand the sudden influx of reddit users being quite a shock for maintainers, so it's heartening to see the platform survive and continue onwards, thanks to the magic of being open-source.