I'm not directly involved in either project beyond reporting bugs and suggesting features yet, but I follow both projects closely. My sense is that the Mbin community is prioritizing collaboration around UX improvements while Kbin is focusing on scaling/performance issues... which makes sense as kbin.social is more than 10x the size of fedia.io (https://fedidb.org/network/instance/kbin.social vs https://fedidb.org/network). I opened a bug about the UI for altering link images at https://codeberg.org/Kbin/kbin-core/issues/1365. When I tested the same steps in Mbin, the issue i was seeing in Kbin had already been solved in Mbin.

Kbin is a great PHP implementation of ActivityPub for reddit-like communities, but requiring all major changes to be made/reviewed by a single person is a real bottle neck.

It would be great if Kbin could figure out some form of goverance/delegation that would allow more contributors, but there doesn't seem to be much interest in that type of change so for now we have 2 project with different priorities and governance models... and that isn't necessarily a bad thing.

The link to the FAQ is also in the footer in the Help column.

Beware of the "whatever" aproach.

Many years ago I was brought into a project where many variables where named after cars. Before I got there, if the team couldn't agree on a name, they'd use a car and move on. There was also a module in the code call "bucket". Didn't have a logical place to put a function? Add it to the bucket.

I'm sure they saved a lot of time not discussing what to name things up front, but by the time there was enough turnover on the team to change the variables and rewrite, it took months to fix.

Another, more product approach is to ask the "variable naming guy" to write up a naming policy document that would result in the names he has been suggesting. If there is logic associated his side of the "argument" it should be easy to document.

Have everyone on the team discuss and approve the policy. Hopefully you never spend time in a meeting arguing about this again.

https://www.clever.com/ is used to handle single sign on and providing a dashboard for hundreds of other education apps/services. It can be used to build a solution with FAR more functionality than what Google offers, but it's $$$ to do that and requires someone with some technical skill and UX experience to do well.

They prefer a more polished UI? I know there are several mobile apps that improve on the default browser experience of visiting https://lemmy.world/, but you have to admit that the initial UX of Lemmy leaves room for improvement. This is the same reason many open-source projects gave up on IRC. The die-hard FOSS advocates raised the "but Slack isn't an open standard" argument only to be shouted down by a larger part of the community with "IRC's UX sucks and is a barrier to new contributors".

https://kbin.social/ has a lot of issues (like calling communities magazines and general performance/stability), but the UI/UX is so much better than Lemmy.

The 13 Rules of a Roman Emperor: How to Stop Giving a Shit and Live a Fucking Good Life

Why bother with a book? What you've described was the structure of a dozen "documentaries" created for Netflix last year.

I appreciate the effort, but this version ends with...

took his children to protect them from the occupation’s missiles, but

But what?

I used eBay for years buying everything from computers to expensive bikes. I even helped a friend who bought a car from eBay.

Now? Full of knock offs and scams. My last transactions were garbage designed to last long enough for a product photo shoot. Using any of these products for their intended purpose is a real safety risk and returns require a back and forth with automated systems designed to try to make you give up before you get any $$ back.

I haven't used eBay in ~8 and likely never will again. The thing about critical mass and network effect is it has as much (if not more) of an impact during a service's decline.

Is there a list of magazines with great, custom CSS? I'm not sure if it's how I use KBin, but I haven’t noticed many customized magazines.

I didn't delete my account and still read https://www.reddit.com/r/drupal/, but I only comment when I think the user would have better luck posting to https://kbin.social/m/drupal or https://kbin.social/m/php. The Kbin version of the Drupal community only has 50 subscribers, but some articles get the same number of upvotes/favorites on Kbin as they do on Reddit now. Drupal users have their own Mastodon instance at https://drupal.community/ and the founder/lead of the project is active on https://indieweb.social/@dries, so it doesn't take much to convince that community to move the conversation to an open, ActivityPub based platform.