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  • A fascinating read. I'm sure there will be plenty of people complaining about their "centralists / fence sitting" takes, but what they're saying it's perfectly valid. These top level providers shouldn't be interfering in arguably critical infrastructure.

  • Might be useful to adjust the field themselves so instead of looking for a local image, they can pull in something from an external URL (hosted on imgur). That way at least avatars / banners will still work without the onus being on the server.

    Hopefully they sort out all this stuff eventually

  • I get we don't trust these third party image hosting sites, but if it's that or having local images that can potentially bring down instances, I'd say that's a no brainier of a compromise.

    These upload sites like imgur automatically handle image detection and take the load off smaller servers. It seems like a perfect solution got now

  • Overall it's a tough situation to be in. I feel a combination of account restrictions would be a way to mitigate the majority of these low quality troll accounts who get verified and then immediately start spamming.

    Having images uploads tied behind user metrics such as interactions, time since creation, upvote / downvote count etc I feel would be a good indicator of a "real" user. You'll always have bad actors coming in causing issues, but at least making new users jump through hoops will make this process slower.

    Closing registrations temporarily to add in extra mod features is fine, but leaving it closed and switching to an invite only system feels like it's going to slow adoption (unless in the request an invite form it's explicit that the request will be processed quickly, people will just move on otherwise)

  • Yeah but have you seen some people's documentation? I get it's not a glamorous task but I've seen some stinkers before (a heap of properties and methods just thrown on a page with barely any description and no reasonable samples)

  • I was part of that discussion. There was an ongoing attribution issue where a person claimed their open source project wasn't being attributed correctly (where it looks like kbin is forked from another older project)

    With the Reddit migration and a range of other issues, old mate who manages kbin didn't get around to fixing the attribution (choosing to focus on getting the server stable and fixing actual issues)

    It got brough up again last week in a not so flattering post and within a day or two it was resolved (putting to bed the idea that old mate is actually out to steal people's code)

    Not a great situation overall but it's great it's been resolved 🦙🦙🦙