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Hexbear Proposals chapo.chat matrix room.

This will be a place for site proposals and discussion before implementation on the site.
Every proposal will also be mirrored into a pinned post on the hexbear community.

Any other ideas for helping to integrate the two spaces are welcome to be commented here or messaged to me directly.

Within Hexbear Proposals you can see the history of all site proposals and react to them, indicating a vote for or against a proposal.

Sending messages will be restricted to verified and active hexbear accounts older than 1 month with their matrix id in their hexbear user profile.

All top level messages within the channel must be a Proposals (idea for changing the site), Feedback (regarding non-technical aspects of the site, for technical please use https://hexbear.net/c/feedback), or Appeals (regarding admin/moderator actions).

Discussion regarding these will be within nested threads under the post.

To gain matrix verification, all you need to do is navigate to my hexbear userprofile and click the send a secure private message including your hexbear username.

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we fucked up (chapo.chat)
submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by CARCOSA@hexbear.net to c/hexbear@hexbear.net
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If any users have purchased domain names they can transfer to us now, or share the account credentials for the domain host please message me so i can add the domain you have to the list of options for a domain change.

Hello users of hexbear, or shall i say chapo.chat, we fucked up, and i fucked up like three times making this post.

Yes, hexbear.net has expired. Yes, we were aware of this possibility. We have gradually lost contact with the access owner (prior admin) for the domain registration. We attempted to make a migration plan, but we were disarmed by the reappearance of the party in question in September 2024 and repeated assurances that they would a) transfer credentials and b) continue payments until they were able to do the former.

We accept full responsibility for this. We should have been more aggressive about this and continued our alternative despite these reassurances. This is our fuck up, and we can't offer anything besides our continued apologies and our plan of action going forward and an explanation of what happened:

Over the time of chapo.chat and hexbear.net the admins that purchased the domain, established the donation accounts, and the server accounts have left. One of the primary admins has gone inactive and returned many times, over a year ago some of the newer admins began asking the older admins to give full access to the domain, servers, and donations. These requests were not met, despite warnings of this exact event.

At the moment we do not have access to hexbear.net and there is a strong chance we will not get it back without participating in the auction, which is already over $300. Choosing to abandon the hexbear.net domain will cause federation problems and considerable technical issues which would lead to potential extended downtime.

During this downtime we would be reestablishing access to the new domain (or hexbear.net if we win the auction), access to server ownership, and donation accounts. This would be distributed among a number of admins so that we can prevent this from happening again.

Chapo.chat has the same access problem that led to the current state of hexbear.net so it is to be considered temporary.

I will do my best to answer questions

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[–] CARCOSA@hexbear.net 0 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Please reply to this comment with name suggestions in the event we have to change from hexbear.net

We will make a new thread to vote on names shortly.

The main options are:

Use a name similar to hexbear.net (like hexbear.chat, h.exbear.net, etc.) while we look at options for recovering hexbear.net

or

change to a new name.

For ease of transfer we cannot accept domain-names that are currently available to purchase, or ones that cannot be transferred or ones where the owner wanting to donate cannot give the credentials for the domain-host account.

[–] came_apart_at_Kmart@hexbear.net 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

i legit think it's funny to have to change domains again and support the saving of $ on not bidding for the old one. i mean, it blows that this will create extra work for the already voluntary maintainers.

i don't really have a good suggestion, but it should be something equally inscrutable, cryptic, or possibly even a riff on hexbear like bexhare or hexbeanis. i like the mythology that whenever "things get too hot" the community changes its name to throw off the scent and fool our adversaries. i expect this would be the last name change, but it's a funny bit especially since the default move is to pretend like the namebrand of any online community is sacrosanct when all it really needs to be is easily memorized and likely pronounceable.

like rizzlen.in or pigmilk.fart

[–] Leon_Grotsky@hexbear.net 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I liked Beanis.Zone and FibonacciBear.net for names that keep going down the inscrutable site name rabbit hole, but think the best and easiest is use the Hexbear.zone that @Carcharodonna@hexbear.net already has and offered for use.