we lost a lot of posters to the government shutdown and still haven't recovered
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feds got called up to fight Iran
that's the thing feds should be on posting duty now during the ceasefire that's why it's so confusing
iranian agents changed the wifi password on the abraham lincoln and no one knows how to reset it
has anyone tried to telnet into it and login with admin admin?
that's the thing feds should be on posting duty
Make of what you will, of what happened to them heh / jk
Weekends are usually dead, I have a hunch most people browse hb while at work during the week
Yeah, at work… “boss makes a dollar I make a dime” right my fellow commies?
makes sense i guess
There's a post like this once a month or so, in between election cycles there's just less activity because we're all a bunch of libs.
when there is no super PAC funding for your bear posting 
Its true. I post less since AIPAC stopped sending me fruitbaskets.
I have had some issues getting them to send the check to the right place, what is the service email
Wait a moment. It was something with L ? Laley ? Langsey ? No. Its on the tip of my tongue
USAID funding dried up
i have noticed the activity being a bit slower as of late. but more importantly, you and your family keeping well?
yeah no one died so we've been well i suppose. not being an israeli has helped us not shitting our pants any time a firecracker went off. honestly we were too much chill. it's scary how quick you can get used to explosion sounds. the slightly worse thing was the fighter and drone noises. anticipating something bad is gonna happen is worse than knowing something bad thing is happening.
yeah shit i can only imagine how scary that gets. really glad to hear you're all as well as can be through all this comrade. always wishing for your continued safety!
After the whole debacle where the website url was almost lost and had to revert to chapo.chat there was a huge loss of membership.
Aside from that, seems about as active as it has been since then imo. Maybe a little dip recently but it could be due to people just being busier
yeah looking at the numbers it doesn't look out of place but something just feels off i don't know what.
Most of the users were banned for jokes that hit too hard.
I've definitely noticed a few prolific posters disappear recently.
Yeah that pace has slowed. It's a reminder that you aren't supposed to spend all your time here
but i'm sick of having had to touch grass for the last two months 
For a bit, at the the news mega was busy enough to switch from weekly to new post everytime it reached 3k comments. Feel like since the ceasefire it slowed down a lot.
war posting burnout then? people getting sick of politics?
Definitely warposting burnout. For how great the news mega and its analysis can be, the top level comments that are about hot topics or what's in the current news cycle always get more attention
School exam period :(
Iran missile strikes hit Mossad HQ and the posting bot activity took a hit
This place can feel deserted if you come back during a weekend. Traffic is always significantly down then, unless there's some major event happening with lots of new updates. Site activity picks back up on Monday.
Welcome back, glad to hear you are safe. I’ve been through a few accounts since we last spoke, hope we can play games again some time in the future.
It'll pick back up but it has felt that way for me. Browsing [local][comments][new] used to be I could hit refresh after a couple mins and a whole new page of comments would be there. Not so much right now.
The outbreak of war probably pulled in users who had been touching grass (that's me, at least), and now that the war has stabilized there are fewer updates, so some of them are going back to grass touching.
i'm sorry i'll try harder
Hexbear has been on decline since it first started and only briefly staved it off during the first few weeks of federation.
All the tariffs on our Xibucks have really been hurting