Hi everyone, it seems that we have quite a gathering here, and many of you I haven’t had the chance to greet yet :) As some of you may know, /kbin is still in its early stages of development. Every day, improvements and new features are being worked on. Unfortunately, this may result in occasional short downtimes. However, the recent changes should address the issue of logging out after a break. Soon, I’m also planning a slightly bigger environment update, which might involve a slightly longer downtime.

However, it will be worth the wait because it will bring a few changes:

• Swapping favorites and boosts, meaning it will work similarly to Lemmy instances. Based on your feedback, I’ve decided it doesn’t make sense to complicate it further.
• Improved communication with some instances (get sign request).
• Italian language (@ambitras) and Japanese language ( @dannekrose ) (I’d like to link your profiles in the project’s readme if possible. Let me know where the link should lead).
• And it seems that German language is also incoming :O (https://translate.codeberg.org/projects/kbin/#languages)
• Ability to mark content in Hebrew language.
• New PWA icons.
• I also plan to move thumbnails to external storage and switch to queue-based generation. This will significantly speed up the website.
• In the meantime, you can catch up on what’s happening in /m/kbinDesign ( @cody ) or try the BetterKbin plugin ( @FediExt ) - your feedback will be appreciated.

Thanks to everyone for your contributions. The most beautiful thing is that it all comes naturally, from word to word. I feel like we’re on the good side of the Internet ;) I’ve also prepared a short guide on how to set up your own instance - I’ll be gradually improving it. /kbin works quite well as a small community.

I’ll be partially absent as I need to focus on these tasks, so please mention me in posts if something important happens. And I also need to catch my breath a bit. Like other admins, the recent time has taken its toll on me. I feel like I’ve been to a four-day beach party ;p Once everything settles down, I will definitely return to your questions and comments.

Finally, I would like to thank @NGIZero #NLnet for their support. Thanks to them, we have reached this stage.