e-five in the kbin codeberg and matrix

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Cake day: July 8th, 2023
  • e569668@fedia.ioto/kbin meta@kbin.social•What's up with notifications?
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    10 months ago

    I don’t want to give false information, but on fedia the majority of 500 pages seemed to stem from the image media cache causing issues (our instance admin detailed the issue here). People were able to mitigate it by disabling images everywhere they could, but one place they can’t be disabled is the user avatars on the notification page. I could be wrong, but it’s my belief it’s those images causing the 500s, and that pushed me to add https://codeberg.org/Kbin/kbin-core/issues/1039 in hopes that if it was possible to disable them the 500s would stop. All this could be wrong though, maybe it’s something else like deleted messages or anything else, or maybe there’s a better way to solve issues with cached images

  • e569668@fedia.ioto/kbin meta@kbin.social•Can't delete bad posts
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    10 months ago

    I’m not sure if this is a good suggestion, are you able to delete it via moderation as you’re the magazine owner? Someone mentioned having issues deleting their own posts but still could via moderation recently, but I’m not actually sure what that difference means as I haven’t moderated any magazines myself.

  • e569668@fedia.ioto/kbin meta@kbin.social•Is there a way to have a feed of people you follow in kbin?
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    10 months ago

    Definitely, you’re right that new timeframe doesn’t matter, I meant to type hot all time xD I would expect that to potentially grab like whatever was boosted most in the past but then again the algorithm does tend to show newer things even under hot.

    Yea the tag system might need a bit of work. It works great for some magazines, but for others not so much. For example m/help is supposed to be a magazine for kbin help but it pulls in everything under #help which can be anything in the fediverse. I did see someone suggest a way for a magazine to remove it defaulting to using the tag of its name, which doesn’t seem like a bad idea to me

  • e569668@fedia.ioto/kbin meta@kbin.social•Is there a way to have a feed of people you follow in kbin?
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    10 months ago

    Interesting, I’ve heard people say the same before. I do always sort by newest myself, but I sub to a bunch of magazines and also, say, three mastodon accounts, and that page is basically just solely the mastodon posts, very rarely do I see microblog posts in lemmy/kbin. I guess a filter of magazines vs users would be useful

    Edit: Also, is the default view all time for you? I could see that causing a problem as well if it’s hot / all time. I mainly have three bookmarks: /hot/12h, /sub/newest/24h, /sub/microblog/newest/1d. Getting all results for all of time by default seemed a bit weird to me, especially for microblog posts

  • e569668@fedia.ioto/kbin meta@kbin.social•are these periodic infuxes of bots (first porn, and now pharmaceuticals) a kbin-specific problem, or a wider fediverse issue?
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    10 months ago

    I do rarely see it on other kbins. Honestly kind of surprising considering kbin has no API. Not that it’s super difficult to do some headless browser automation but it sort of seems like whoeever is doing it must be super dedicated to targeting kbin.

    Do you mostly see it on m/random or other magazines? I’ve seen it elsewhere but it mostly seems to be from there. I kind of don’t quite see the point in allowing threads / microblogs to be made from a local kbin instance to m/random. Threads especially, at least. I sort of am thinking it might be nice if m/random was locked from local posting so you had to file it under a magazine with moderators, but spam bots would likely just make their own magazines or spam others and that wouldn’t really solve the problem.