lots of German speaking channels with several hundreds and thousands of members but no content whatsoever, some of them with no posts for the last 6 months…

what happened?

  • ksharp@lemmy.ml
    13·
    3 months ago

    Seriously, what’s up with owners vanishing? Kbin.social, Kbin.run, feddit.de?

    Not even a message saying something like “this project is taking up too much of my time, bye everyone.”

    • superkret@feddit.org
      22·
      3 months ago

      It wasn’t like that. The owner went on a long vacation during which the server’s disk ran full, the database was corrupted as a result, and the backup was overwritten with a corrupted state, before the owner returned.

      feddit.org was created as a community effort to keep that from happening again.

    • Blaze (he/him)@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      11·
      3 months ago

      Plenty of others too: vlemmy.net, iusearch.fyi, lemmy.film.

      That’s why people should pay attention to a few things when looking for a server

      • are there at least two admins?
      • are they communicating regularly, including on their finances
      • is there a Matrix chat or another way to reach out to them
    • ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world
      9·
      3 months ago

      I’m very sad about kbin, I eve told Ernest that I’d volunteer with some admin work and potentially code (even if I despise PHP), but he declined, even when his health went really bad.

    • quantEnglish
      4·
      3 months ago

      The early internet also had personal website vanishing or being abandoned all the time. Static webpages don’t need constant maintenance but it’s more noticeable when it’s a community.