Quick question, I’m looking to make an Mbin account and just wanted to ask if there is any lemmy.ml type of situation to be aware of.

  • Riley@lemmy.mlEnglish
    3·
    2 months ago

    What exactly happened for the name to be changed from Kbin to Mbin? I missed that plot point.

    • melroy@kbin.melroy.org
      8·
      2 months ago

      Like people already mentioned below, a fork was created after kbin development halted. And the project maintainer was absent but at the same time didn’t delegated the work fully. Hence the creation of the fork: Mbin.

      I wasn’t creative, so the M in Mbin stands for my name: Melroy. xd

    • Chozo@fedia.io
      51·
      2 months ago

      Mbin is a fork of Kbin. A lot of users have moved from Kbin instances to Mbin, as the Kbin dev has had some personal life issues that have interfered with his ability to reliably work on the project.

    • poVoq@slrpnk.netEnglish
      2·
      2 months ago

      Mbin is a fork that was startend to add some stuff the original Kbin dev didn’t like. These days it seems Kbin is dead though, so basically Mbin is the new Kbin.