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I keep getting HTTP 503 errors when trying to go to kbin.social. Is this common for anyone else? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by DRx@lemmy.world to c/kbin@kbin.social

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Anyone else keep getting 503 errors? Ill refresh like 3 times and itll pop back up, but then I click on a thread and it goes down again.

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[–] tal@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Kbin is a particular software package, like Lemmy.

Kbin.social is a particular kbin instance, one run by the kbin developer Earnest. But it doesn't have to be the only place to use kbin.

People can set up more instances. They download kbin and install it on a server somewhere, and one more instance joins the Fediverse.

There are other kbin instances that people have been adding, though the only time I tried signing up for one of them (kbin.lol) to try to reduce load on kbin.social, something was broken with its email verification and I wasn't able to register.

I expect that over time, other popular kbin instances will show up and people will iron out the quirks in them.

Here's a list of current kbin instances. The desktop version of the site shows an indicator of whether each is allowing the general public to register for an account there. The mobile one only seems to me to show the first two columns of the chart, but if you choose "show desktop version" in a mobile Web browser, you should be able to see all the columns in the chart.

https://kbin.fediverse.observer/list