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Kbin.social upgrade (kbin.melroy.org)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Currently, the kbin.social instance has planned maintenance. They are busy upgrading the infrastructure to Kubernetes, using Docker containers. They said it shouldn't take much longer than 1 hour downtime in total (if everything goes fine).

The migration will help to dynamically scale the instance, to remove the growing pains. And hopefully increase the availability (uptime) as well.

Soon additional setup configurations, best server practices and ansible playbooks will be shared with the community.

In the meanwhile you can of course use other instances (I bet you are reading this message right now from another instance).

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[–] hydra 28 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I bet you are reading this message right now from another instance

Hell yeah, reading from a Lemmy instance :D
Fediverse sure is great

[–] DriftingMangoes 2 points 2 years ago

Same. It’s awesome.

[–] jelloeater85 17 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I'm very curious how this goes for you folks! Good luck from us over at lemmy.world ❤️

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Migration seems successful.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Or not.. It's down again for a second time.. :o

[–] bless 1 points 2 years ago

Nice!

[–] Garzak 10 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Kbin is a different code base from lemmy, right?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago

Yes it is. Kbin is also a reddit-alike alternative. Just like Lemmy. Also open-source. See code base: https://codeberg.org/Kbin/kbin-core

[–] Speculater 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Is there a TLDR of what the difference between the two is?

[–] tydel 11 points 2 years ago (1 children)

mastodon = twitter lemmy = reddit kbin = both

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Sure, it's also written by different developers, which some people might find important. Also Kbin is written in PHP + JS while Lemmy is written in Rust + TS mainly.

[–] Sheltac 8 points 2 years ago

Rust > php any day

[–] ClassyHatter 6 points 2 years ago

Both kbin and Lemmy are reddit-like content/link aggregators. Kbin combines content aggregation with twitter-like microblogging.

[–] s6original 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Ah, Kubernetes...

[–] LordXenu 3 points 2 years ago

Actually excited for this (currently rolling out a k3s environment at work). For instances like this, the in demand scaling will be clutch.

Helm chart when?

[–] TheGoldenGod 2 points 2 years ago

Hmmm, wonder if that’s why my upvotes are off today, it was 300 yesterday. 🤔

[–] ColonelSanders 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Yeah I just tried to log in at Kbin (hooray for accounts on multiple instances!) and saw that it is expected to be back up by 20:00 UTC? But...it's currently 20:11 UTC so I'm guessing it's taking a little longer than expected.

[–] friedtofu 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

I was afraid of this... I already told Ernest to list multiple instances on the page, so people can visit other instances. But it seems to be down for maintenance a second time.

[–] jcb2016 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Dam.. kbin still down

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

** it's down again*

[–] MCForTheBest 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

From what I've seen, when it went back up for a few minutes, they changed the interface, the thumbnails were on the left side and it now shows your profile picture next to your username in the upper right. Those were the more obvious changes, of course.

I don't know if those changes stay permanent but it looked really nice! (That's just as an FYI for everyone who didn't see the site go back up)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

These are only the cosmetic changes you see. Kbin.social was running a quite old version indeed. I try to keep my instance up-to-date every day, running the latest changes from the develop branch.

That being said, there are a lot of other changes you are not aware of. These can be database changes, performance improvements, backend features. Or any other code change, bug fix or improvement, which isn't always obvious to the end-user.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

It's up again?

EDIT: But I notice some image cache issues.

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