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We want to move away from Reddit, is kbin suitable? (kbin.social)
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Update: we're live @rimworldporn

Hello, I am the founder of /r/RimWorldporn. We would like to move away from Reddit and are looking for a good alternative. We are kind of like /r/earthporn, so we require hosting of large images. We've been around for about 4 1/2 years and have accumulated roughly 30GB of images. The main advantage of Reddit is that it hosts relatively high quality images, for free. Would kbin be a suitable platform for this? We could host our own instance, maybe even centralize image storing on it.

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[โ€“] philip@kbin.chat 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm not @ivy, but I have setup a kbin instance using the "Install with docker" guide.
I ran into the following issues:

  1. Including a symbol in the passwords in .env file. You either have to encode/escape the symbols or not use them. I ended up using passwords without symbols.
  2. Before running yarn install and yarn build, I had to isssue composer commands as described here
  3. File permissions issues. The docker compose up command failed, if everything in the kbin directory didn't belong to the kbin user.

Also if you want to use docker, then there should be a new setup soon(See here)

[โ€“] slavethewhales@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Thanks for the info and the links. I'm not in a particular rush so I'm just viewing this as a learning experience. When it finally works it'll be a great feeling :D