Hey, once again, I welcome the newcomers. It’s great to see new faces here :) It seems that we’ve managed to resolve the server issue. Unfortunately, I had to temporarily disable certain features, such as content auto-refresh. It will be restored at the beginning of next week after the infrastructure change, so you’ll get to experience kbin in its full glory then :) Currently, I’m working on a few critical things that I want to finish by Monday:
- Infrastructure improvement, optimization related to high traffic
- Admin guide - creating a new instance
- Fixes in notifications for post replies
- Attend to the new mod reports
- As soon as possible, I also want to get back to Codeberg Issues, private messages etc - there are many new topics there. Thanks to everyone for the that!
Some time ago I had an issue with bots, so registration process it might not be done perfectly. If the emial didn’t reach or wasn’t received in time, after a while and additional verification, the account will be manually activated.
If something important happens, please email me through the contact form - it’s the fastest way to reach me. Now I’ll get back to my tasks, and I wish you a great time exploring the fediverse :)
At some point, the registration will also be temporarily disabled. Nevertheless, we are still running on a budget VPS.
Have a great weekend!
rel: https://kbin.social/m/kbinMeta/p/417417/Alright-it-was-a-long-night-for-me-But-I-m
I have seen a few questions in the suggestions about this. I wanted to wait until everything settles down, but additional support would be extremely helpful for me right now, and maybe this is the right moment for it. In my free time, I will write a separate post about it, with detailed server costs, etc. I also quickly created this for now https://www.buymeacoffee.com/kbin :)
I jumped over from reddit this morning and am glad I could support you. Still trying to figure everything out but I like what I see so far. Cheers!
Bought you a coffee as a small thank you. Could I ask you a question, while I’m here - possibly contentious.
If we agree that servers take cash to run, some kind of income stream is good. Donations is one way - but what do you think about the concept of letting individual instances display advertisements similar to Reddit’s sponsored posts.
The advert would only show in the local stream. Users could then decide whether they want to host their own instance, use one that asks dor donations, or use one that takes adverts.
You could see how an instance that is specialised around a subject or geography could maybe subsidise their running costs.
Is this philosophical abhorrent? Or acceptable, and if acceptable might it be something that might be supported in the future?
Thank you :) I wrote a longer post on this topic on my Polish instance once, but I can’t quickly find it now, and I have to get back to work. As soon as things calm down a bit, I’ll go back to your post.
So, there are people across the Fediverse that are opposed to ads and will block an instance that have them, I understand but believe this is ridiculous. As running a server costs money and donations are not enough. I believe as long as they are not intrusive ads then it should be fine.
I agree. Although, non-intrusive non-“native” ads are hard to find. I wouldn’t mind the return of text-only ads like back in 90s when Google started out. However, ads must not be of tracking kind either.
But video + image visual ads are automatic no from me. They’re distracting and slows down the page.