The maintainer Ernest had some life issues come up and he was not able to maintain it anymore. When it hit a snag he just did not have the energy left to keep it going.
This information is third or fourth hand so there may be something else going on that I'm not aware of but that's what I was told.
Pretty well summed up. I checked in on things now and then when kbin was still fairly functional.
Ernest went radio silent for long stretches of time, where before he was pretty active on kbin. He resurfaced a couple times to let people know he wasn't dead or anything, and explained that some fairly serius medical issues were keeping him from doing much work.
He expressed a desire and hope to return to running kbin, but it wasn't to be. Eventually the main instance just broke, and without Ernest around to fix it, it stayed that way.
As mentioned, we now have mbin (fedia.io) which is being developed by other developers and building atop kbin.
Hopefully Ernest is able to take care of himself, whatever he is now up to.
I gotta say, your comment summarizes it the best. Best of luck to Ernest
Yup. I sent him some money via that koffe thing he had up, and I don't regret it - it's important to maintain a diversity of clients in a decentralized system like the Threadiverse.
I was a kbin.social user and I migrated over to kbin.earth after it went down.
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