The owner of the site (Ernest, IIRC) has some health issues that have kept him from being as active as he had wanted. He also wrote the frontend code as an alternative to the Lemmy software. Mbin continues onward as a fork of Kbin.

I wish him the best. I hope he gets better. I know too well what chronic illness can do to a person.

Agreed. Diplomacy is not a skill that many people practice, and even when they do misunderstandings happen over text too easily.

I’ll never fully understand why humans are so quick to judge and offer non-constructive criticism on someone else’s creative work. It seems like the least knowledge are most often the loudest in this regard.

It was just too much greatness all at once. Like a fire hose of greatness when you just wanted a small sip

They’ve been promising better mod tools for years