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I Still Like Kbin.social (kbin.social)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I still like posting here.

The spam's a bit much at times and it goes down for days a stretch but I didn't find any instance during this latest outage even worth considering jumping ship to.

When .social is up, that's wha'sup.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago (1 children)

the mbin team says some things that I find concerning about kbin

What are they saying?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

kbin doesn't accept contributions. It is a one person project despit appearing to be community driven.

I don't know what is true but that is a concerning accusation.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago

The project definitely accepts contributions, the mbin devs have contributed to kbin before and a few weeks ago a minor code change was committed and merged by someone other than ernest.

As I understand it, the issue is that people with merge permissions other than ernest are only allowed to merge their own pull requests, not those of third parties, which require a review from ernest.
(At least that's what I've seen explained before, though I haven't seen any proof of it so I don't fully know if it's real.)

This means a majority of contributors can't get their pull requests merged when ernest is gone. Which is why they went and made mbin when he was gone for months last time.