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Cake day: June 16th, 2023

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  • Jesus H Christ… congrats on being the one millionth person on kbin to say “What are YOU doing?” while talking down their literal list of what they are doing.

    a-man-from-earth is right, Kbin is in a sorry state right now. I still get asked to login when I want to comment, despite being logged in, at which point it takes me to the home page. Viewing a reply to your comment is still not pagination-aware.

    Ernest has said this version of kbin is frozen until he rolls out the next, hopefully the end of September, so by his own admission Kbin as we know and use it is the same pile it was months ago. That said I remain hopeful that the next rollout will be a big improvement.

    Back to the topic, if the site isn’t easy and intuitive to use, or if it’s broken and remains a thorn for a long time, then you can’t expect people to go out of their way to do the thing you want them to do. That’s not how the world works.

    a-man-from-earth has submitted bug fixes to try and improve the site so people might be more willing to stick around and post themselves, while you’re just posting content that’ll eventually become irrelevant. What are YOU doing? (See? It’s asinine right?)














  • Honestly I feel that the outcome was optimal.

    1. It created animosity towards Reddit.
    2. It exposed major problems with Reddit.
    3. It boosted fediverse’s numbers.
    4. It tapered off before the fediverse came crashing down from the influx of millions.
    5. It reinforced the mandate to develop the fediverse, there’s clearly something here and it’s worth deving towards.
    6. Reddit is guaranteed to shoot itself in the foot again, probably pre-IPO, definitely post-IPO, and now the fediverse is being given some much needed time to flesh itself out before they do.

    If Reddit collapsed over this I don’t believe the infrastructure exists at this time to onboard all those members, so it’s a blessing in disguise.