Ernest needs to quickly delegate or this instance will quickly die
I appreciate that earnest made a post yesterday, or maybe it was the day before, saying that he is not dead and hasn't given up on kbin. It's not on this magazine, so I'm not sure where it was since this seems to be the most appropriate one, but in any case.
Reassuring us that things will improve at some point someday probably isn't enough, and I both moderate and donate to him every month, so I'm a pretty "serious" kbinner. I'm sure we've already lost many people who are less dedicated and just want something that works.
This site has been nearly unusable for days. There was the one day recently where it was entirely unusable. Everybody who uses this platform is an 'internet person". We need a platform which is (mostly) fully functional (mostly) every day.
Kbin needs to be fixed.
Ernest needs to give up on this being a one-man show and invite other moderators and contributors. Even I am looking at mbin because usability has just been so terrible that it's not worth the frustration and disappointment.
/rant
Edit: To make this thread even better, I got an error when I tried to post it. Twice.
@Pamasich@kbin.social
@Drusas@kbin.social do you have a link to a discussion or documentation about down votes being private? Trying to Google this only returns this thread https://www.google.com/search?q=%22mbin%22+make+down+votes+private
From what I can tell, it's mostly brought up in the discussion of a pull request for supporting federated dislikes.
That's where I originally saw it. I'm sure there's probably some more discussion on matrix though, that seems to be their main discussion platform.
Some additional links without discussions:
Edit: Also, to clarify, it's only seeing who downvoted that's made private, the actual amount of downvotes is kept public. It's not a Youtube situation.
I'm not sure why you tagged me because I didn't say that downvotes are private.