In the last week a bunch of the API PRs have been merged into the mainline branch. There's still a few to go (and I imagine a lot of testing / refactoring after), but at least seems promising that the work is still in progress
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You filed the issue on it! xD
I remember this happening before so it might be the same thing, auto media preview basically: https://kbin.social/m/kbinMeta/t/77143
I'm not sure if this is a good suggestion, are you able to delete it via moderation as you're the magazine owner? Someone mentioned having issues deleting their own posts but still could via moderation recently, but I'm not actually sure what that difference means as I haven't moderated any magazines myself.
Definitely, you're right that new timeframe doesn't matter, I meant to type hot all time xD I would expect that to potentially grab like whatever was boosted most in the past but then again the algorithm does tend to show newer things even under hot.
Yea the tag system might need a bit of work. It works great for some magazines, but for others not so much. For example m/help is supposed to be a magazine for kbin help but it pulls in everything under #help which can be anything in the fediverse. I did see someone suggest a way for a magazine to remove it defaulting to using the tag of its name, which doesn't seem like a bad idea to me
Interesting, I've heard people say the same before. I do always sort by newest myself, but I sub to a bunch of magazines and also, say, three mastodon accounts, and that page is basically just solely the mastodon posts, very rarely do I see microblog posts in lemmy/kbin. I guess a filter of magazines vs users would be useful
Edit: Also, is the default view all time for you? I could see that causing a problem as well if it's hot / all time. I mainly have three bookmarks: /hot/12h, /sub/newest/24h, /sub/microblog/newest/1d. Getting all results for all of time by default seemed a bit weird to me, especially for microblog posts
You should be able to see microblog posts of accounts you follow at https://kbin.social/sub/microblog
Just to follow up on this, contributors to kbin investigated and found that startrek.website appears to block user agents that contain "curl" in it now.
Example:
curl -v --user-agent "curl" https://startrek.website/pictrs/image/3ff1b940-75da-4e6b-8948-834ebd4b454c.jpeg
times out while:
curl -v --user-agent "anything-else" https://startrek.website/pictrs/image/3ff1b940-75da-4e6b-8948-834ebd4b454c.jpeg
works. kbin apparently sends User-Agent: Symfony HttpClient (Curl) in its requests for images, which is different than how it handles other fetch requests. they've made a PR to change kbin to send the user agent it uses elsewhere in those image requests https://codeberg.org/Kbin/kbin-core/pulls/1098 once that is approved / merged they should start working again as instances update. It'd be nice if, assuming this is all accurate, the block on curl could be removed so people don't have to wait for the PR / instances to update but I understand if that is difficult
are these periodic infuxes of bots (first porn, and now pharmaceuticals) a kbin-specific problem, or a wider fediverse issue?
I do rarely see it on other kbins. Honestly kind of surprising considering kbin has no API. Not that it's super difficult to do some headless browser automation but it sort of seems like whoeever is doing it must be super dedicated to targeting kbin.
Do you mostly see it on m/random or other magazines? I've seen it elsewhere but it mostly seems to be from there. I kind of don't quite see the point in allowing threads / microblogs to be made from a local kbin instance to m/random. Threads especially, at least. I sort of am thinking it might be nice if m/random was locked from local posting so you had to file it under a magazine with moderators, but spam bots would likely just make their own magazines or spam others and that wouldn't really solve the problem.
This isn't really a me thing, this is kbin servers themselves. They all fetch the image from the posts and cache it to make thumbnails on their server which they host themselves. Ever since maintenance, the kbin instances appear to have trouble fetching the images to cache them. I'll try to gather more data from instance admins, perhaps something changed with the request/response headers or something else that is causing them to get blocked.
So funny thing about [#kbin](https://kbin.social/tag/kbin). [I post a photo thread.](https://kbin.social/m/wizardposting/t/413339/My-favorite-magic-ability) I go to my profile and see the thread. I cl
It looks like ever since this maintenance, no kbin instances can get images from startrek.website:
https://kbin.run/d/startrek.website
https://kbin.social/d/startrek.website?p=3
https://kbin.cafe/d/startrek.website?p=3
https://fedia.io/d/startrek.website/newest?p=4
(the links atm go to ~3 days ago when maintenance happened but ofc will start to drift as more posts are made)
You can see the thumbnails disappear exactly at the mark of the maintenance and ever since then they're gone. If you see thumbnails after that, they're usually wrong ones that are being loaded from different posts (there's a separate issue in for that now). I was wondering if you were aware of any issues or changes that happened because of this maintenance that would prevent kbin instances from fetching thumbnails? I've raised this in the kbin matrix chat as well
In hindsight I remember why I filter newest to a timespan, so wanted to make note of it. Right now:
https://fedia.io/m/kbinMeta@kbin.social/microblog/newest 500s for me but
https://fedia.io/m/kbinMeta@kbin.social/microblog/newest/1w is able to load. so cutting off some of the older posts helps me run into less 500 issues, and I generally don't care too much about old posts unless I'm searching for something. that might be a fedia specific thing though, not sure how 500s are on other instances