There is no way to hide NSFW posts client side in the app ATM. The expectation is that your Lemmy/Mbin/PieFed account would be configured with whether you want to allow NSFW posts or not, and the API would reflect that configuration. I guess it’s not working correctly on PieFed though.

I agree that jwr1 comes across as a bit passive aggressive here

Man, I really wasn’t trying to; I was just trying to have a friendly/helpful tone, which backfired I guess.

Well, a simple DB query gives us the answer.

There are 661 total local users ATM, only 32 of which have 2FA enabled. That gives us a measly 5%.

If you’re talking active (monthly) users, there are 161, only 19 of which have 2FA enabled. That turns out to be 11% (of active users).

Either way, it seems like 2FA is not generally used among users 🤷.

Not just this sentence but your whole reply is slightly passive aggressive and you’re asking ME to keep a nicer tone?

I am very sorry that I came across that way, I was certainly not trying to sound passive aggressive.

And the reply you gave to both of these are “I’m actually surprised that’s happening” and “I’m not really sure what the issue is there”.

I only mentioned I was surprised about it just because I’ve never had any other users report the error to me, that’s all. I also haven’t encountered either of the two issues myself.

You can’t seem to pinpoint on how a specific error pops up

That is true. I run this Mbin instance, but I’m not necessarily an Mbin dev, so I wouldn’t say I know the ins and outs of everything.

And you have no right to tell me not to use Mbin

That wasn’t what I was trying to say. I was just suggesting that maybe it’s not for you, but of course, you can use whatever you want.

Honestly, I wouldn’t worry about it. It’s likely just a technical issue, like bentigorlich mentioned in your other thread. I’d say as long as you’re able to access your account, then you’re good to go on that aspect. My only guess as to why the message popped up is due to some sort of delay in the system after you actually verified your account through your email.

Hello @BubblyRomeo! It is true, like @green_copper said, I have a life outside of Mbin, but I have now seen your comments (please try to keep a nicer tone though). I’ll try to help you where I can.

Interstellar uses kbin.earth as the default instance, mainly because they were both created by me. But you are most certainly not forced to use kbin.earth with Interstellar, you can add/switch to any Mbin, Lemmy, or PieFed account by going to the settings. And once you have added a different account (and switched to it), you can even remove the default guest kbin.earth account from the app.

As for your kbin.earth issues, are you saying anytime you try to log in, you get an “email not verified” message? I’m actually surprised that’s happening just because usually if an account on Mbin is not email verified yet, then it wouldn’t even let you make comments or posts yet. And for the 2FA problem, I’m not really sure what the issue is there, I tested it just now and was able to enable 2FA on my own account just fine; is it possible your phone’s (or whatever device you have the 2FA app on) clock is slightly off? Which could definitely cause issues for TOTP based 2FA.

You shouldn’t have made kbin.earth the default instance when signing up from the Interstellar app if your instance has some serious security issues!

kbin.earth is just an Mbin instance. The only thing I’ve really customized is the kbin.earth branding. If you think kbin.earth has security issues, then you probably shouldn’t use Mbin at all. That said, if you’d like to migrate to a different Mbin instance, Mbin doesn’t really have a good way to do that. If you have tons of magazine or user subscriptions, then you could try using Interstellar’s account transfer feature, but otherwise, you’ll just have to manually copy over your settings to your new account.

It’s all good! Honestly, I didn’t even learn about the issue from a post in this community, it was actually from a comment in the fediverse community.

I have commented in the Mbin matrix about it, but so far neither Melroy nor bentigorlich has seen it.

Thank you, this is actually already an issue I’m aware of and will try to fix for the next update.

I’ll say within the past few months there hasn’t been as much activity as there usually has been, so there’s not like a lot of new features coming in like there is for PieFed. Part of that is likely due to the fact that Mbin’s low on devs ATM, especially since one of the previous devs went AWOL. Still, I’ll say Mbin is already quite polished and works well, even if the dev team isn’t as active as they once were.

Luckily, I was able to mitigate it within the week it started, by setting up specific Cloudflare firewall rules. I just haven’t remembered to downgrade the server since it happened :)

The experience for setting up an Mbin server has greatly improved with the latest Docker setup rework. So now, it shouldn’t take more than a few minutes to get a simple Mbin setup running.

As for resource usage, my server (kbin.earth) doesn’t have anywhere close to the user base fedia.io does, but I’ve been able to run my server (which has ~150 active and ~600 total users) on a decently low-resource server. In the past month or so, it’s been a server with 16 vCPUs and 32 GB RAM, but previously it was running on 8 vCPUs and 16 GB RAM (had to upgrade due to DDOS).

I’ve been running my server for about 1.5 years (since December 2023), and most of the time it is a set-and-forget type of thing, of course, until you need to update things or troubleshoot some issue. But overall, it’s been working great, and when you do run into an issue, the Mbin devs are usually quick to help troubleshoot with you.

It is true that Mbin doesn’t have an “official” instance, but there are multiple servers that are run by the Mbin devs, including thebrainbin.org, gehirneimer.de, and kbin.melroy.org (and kbin.earth if you count me).

Well, sorry about that again. Really Lemmy should have never let it happen though.

Oh lol, is that still a problem?

I think it would make sense to have communities in an alphabetical order

Unfortunately, that’s just not possible with either Mbin, Lemmy, or PieFed, as there’s no way to request a list of communities sorted alphabetically. The stars feature will be your best bet, as it’s kind of meant to fix having to dig through your subscriptions list.

Beyond those two things you’ve done an excellent job with the app.

Thank you!

Wow, thanks for putting so much time into this! We should definitely be able to implement some of these. I especially like the idea of having a diverse set of “muted” content, and having a way to quickly mute something through the overflow menu. Honestly, I like your terminology of “muted” content much better than “filter list”; so maybe I’ll rename “filter lists” to “mute lists”. Also adding more copy/share/block options seems good too.

Lots of other great ideas here that I’ll try to keep in mind! Thanks for the feedback!

I’ll take a look at things when I get a chance. The notifications are actually supposed to be sorted by new, so I’ll definitely need to fix it if they’re not.

On Interstellar, all of your posts and comments would be under Account -> Overview. Any replies to your posts and comments should be under Account -> Notifications.

Also an easy way to search thru my own comments/posts by text would be great too. In Thunder I can search filter by user which makes it easy

I could see that being useful, yeah.

no clue if that limits the capabilities compared to a piefed account

I believe you’re correct here, we’d only be able to filter search results by user on Lemmy and Mbin, not PieFed yet.

Not sure if we could do this already, but could we sort the communities in alphabetical order in the pull out drawer?

The starred communities and users in the nav drawer are already alphabetically sorted. However, neither the Lemmy, Mbin, or PieFed APIs allow you to get a list of communities sorted alphabetically; so that wouldn’t be possible for the subscribed communities list.

Could we add an option to show some of the ‘action buttons’ in compact mode? I generally prefer using compact mode as opposed to a full card. And it would be nice to be able to upvote/downvote a thread quickly. I think the compact threads are a bit crammed as is, so it might require some adjusting to make it work and look nice. Just a suggestion though.

The compact mode card … the titles are always cut off at the thumb nail. Perhaps it would be better to just make the card taller to accommodate the title. They could just be varying card heights depending on the title of the thread.

It sounds like maybe an option in between compact and non-compact would be best for you.

Maybe some colored text highlighting to separate either the user or instance, rather than have everything just one color.

That’s definitely something we could add. I know Thunder already has an option like that, right?

Anyways, thanks again for all your work and finding a way for us to give feedback. I don’t want to come off as demanding or anything as you don’t owe us anything.

You’re good, you don’t come off as demanding. Asking for feedback and suggestions was the whole point of the post :) Thanks!

been using the app this week and is being great so far, but one point that irks me is if I’m in the notifications section and press the back button, I expect to go back to the feed or previous section I was, but it just closes the app and I have to see my reflection on the screen.

It works like that because you went to a completely different page via the navigation bar. You’d have to use the same navigation bar to get back to Feeds. I will say, somebody else recommended requiring two back presses in order to actually exit the screen (which we’ll likely implement), so that would at least mitigate your issue of accidentally exiting the app.

thanks for this app!

You’re welcome, and thanks for the feedback!