Prouvaire

@Prouvaire@kbin.social

Addicted to love. Flower cultivator, flute player, verse maker. Usually delicate, but at times masculine. Well read, even to erudition. Almost an orientalist.

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RTR#52 Busy month (kbin.social) angielski

This month, I managed to wrap up many overdue matters. It seems to me that I responded to the majority of lingering emails, and a few issues turned out to be so important that they took a few extra days. I also dealt with [a certain aspect related to the project, about which I'll be able to share more in a few weeks....

Prouvaire,

All the best for your hospital stay Ernest. Here's to a speedy recovery.

Hoping the upcoming kbin news is good.

Prouvaire,

That's good to know, thanks.

I should have had a look at codeberg before making my post. As well as the entry you identified, there's also this, a suggestion to rate limit accounts: https://codeberg.org/Kbin/kbin-core/issues/948

Prouvaire,

Agree, but it's not a question of him appointing moderators. It's a question of people stepping up and volunteering to be moderators. There are literally thousands of kbin magazines which are currently abandoned, ie where the moderator of the magazine hasn't been active on kbin.social. Anyone can volunteer to take over ownership of these magazines by clicking a button, but there isn't enough interest in the userbase at the moment.

However, you are correct in that spammers are targeting the bigger magazines like m/fediverse, and because Ernest is owner of these magazines but is active on the site, these magazines don't appear in the abandoned magazines list. I agree that in order to ease the administrative burden on him, Ernest should call for additional moderators for these most active magazines, and even step down as the owner of these when one or more replacements have been found.

Prouvaire,

Magazine moderators have the ability to delete posts in their community (also pin/unpin them) and ban users from their community. I don't think it would take a huge amount of time as a rule - it's just a matter of checking in regularly (I suppose ideally several times a day) to see if there are any moderator actions that need to be taken.

Beyond that, moderators typically play a role in curating content and setting/monitoring community guidelines. But we've been talking about people being appointed solely to carry out the more technical/administrative functions in certain magazines to prevent the recent flood of spam. Ie, people have said they'd be happy to ban spam accounts without necessarily taking on the curation of the magazine in question.

Prouvaire,

Ernest hasn't posted since last week, so hopefully he's okay. He's alluded to having a fever and having to figure out kbin's finances (and a bit before that, mentioned that he had to take on another job to cover the bills), so I'm guessing life has gotten in the way of kbin. It's worth bearing in mind that all the threadiverse projects are basically someone's hobby at the moment.

Some of us _aspire _ to dwelling in a basement!

Issue with sort by hot (kbin.social) angielski

This has been an issue since the beginning of Kbin tmk, but when you make a post, it won't appear under sort by hot unless it has an upvote. This means that if someone forgets to upvote their own post, it just won't appear on the default sort. There are plenty of posts I've missed because of this....

Prouvaire,

The "sort by hot" algorithm was probably designed with a larger user base in mind, but I agree with you. For small communities in particular (and the vast majority of Fediverse communities are still tiny) I think even posts with no upvotes (ie no self-upvotes) should be included in the "sort by hot" view. For larger communities, where the threshold for "new" and "hot" may be set higher, so it doesn't matter so much. (I don't know what the algorithm is, but it might be something like 'hot is defined as getting a minimum of X votes, where X scales with the size or activity intensity of the community'.)

Prouvaire, (edited )

@ernest

Recent spam accounts:

https://kbin.social/u/chasma15hassen
https://kbin.social/u/allmovies
https://kbin.social/u/bramdev528
https://kbin.social/u/sdgfdg
https://kbin.social/u/jamesrobort064
https://kbin.social/u/itwatchnow
https://kbin.social/u/streaming21
https://kbin.social/u/sdcsdsadsad
https://kbin.social/u/ghoosebumps
https://kbin.social/u/logan232688
https://kbin.social/u/@sophiya-beth930@kbin.chat
https://kbin.social/u/@BucksBeyond@r.nf

Prouvaire,

@ernest in addition to the post I made yesterday, here are some more recent spam accounts:

https://kbin.social/u/tghntrftgr
https://kbin.social/u/StaceyHutchinson
https://kbin.social/u/liae
https://kbin.social/u/tvpcon
https://kbin.social/u/dddd
https://kbin.social/u/fohita1432
https://kbin.social/u/stream-auf
https://kbin.social/u/drtgdfgasrere
https://kbin.social/u/kohiy48308
https://kbin.social/u/itwatchnow
https://kbin.social/u/emilialia
https://kbin.social/u/sasharychkova
https://kbin.social/u/sasharychkova
https://kbin.social/u/kostyassmchuk
https://kbin.social/u/kitafaj803

Prouvaire,

No worries. Even more unfortunately:

https://kbin.social/u/kostyassmchuk

https://kbin.social/u/nipa

Wonder if these all originate from the same IP address and, if yes, if there's a way of banning accounts from specific IP addresses.

Prouvaire,

It may have something to do with the bug mentioned here:

The improved collapsible comments add-on, part of the original KES collection in version 1.0.0, has some conflicts with kbin's own implementation of collapsible comments. I am cleaning this up, but it may take some time

RTR#50 Plans for the upcoming week (kbin.social) angielski

Lately, I've been dealing with a slight fever associated with the beginning of the year. I'm trying to ensure that everything runs fairly smoothly. Today and tomorrow, I need to focus on planning finances for the upcoming year and handle formalities related to the project. In the following days, I'll implement changes to fix...

Prouvaire,

Just a reminder you can support Ernest and kbin's ongoing development and maintenance via:

https://www.buymeacoffee.com/kbin

https://www.patreon.com/kbin_pub

https://liberapay.com/kbin

Improved Channel Select Menu 0.2.0 — Makes your subscribed magazines and liked channels more accessible (greasyfork.org) angielski

One of my most wanted features as of late has been for the channel select menu to have my subscribed magazines and liked collections. Right now, it just contains some general feeds, but I thought it'd be super useful to also have your mags and collections there for easy access! However, given that Kbin development priorities are...

Prouvaire,

Thanks very much for this. I've been hoping that raltsm4k updates Floating Subs List to incorporate collections, but they haven't been active since mid-last year.

Given your code is partly based on this script, I wonder if you might consider modifyingraltsm4k's Floating Subs List script so that collections appear as part of the sidebar. As a fallback, maybe modify your script so that collections appear before magazines rather than after. This would make it easier to use both scripts, one to access magazines in the sidebar, and the other to more easily access liked collections.

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