They're used as anti-semetic slurs by the far right. There seems to be a proclivity to use the terms as applied to bug-eating politics, but unfortunately the term is simply too associated with anti-semetism and I think particularly given the current conflict it makes good sense to filter it.

With the top all time option I searched for the word blocking in my account in posts -
https://hexbear.net/search?q=blocking&type=Posts&listingType=All&creatorId=21005&page=1&sort=TopAll

The search doesn't find this post I made 8 days ago - A question about blocking Youtube's "Don't use an adblocker" nag.

I am red-green colorblind and the particular hue of green used for hyperlinks is basically indistinguishable from regular body text for me.

Is it possible to increase the color contrast between the hyperlink text color and the normal text color, or use some other kind of stylistic signifier for links?

its ok if not lol

The 6 image rate limit has just caused me to not bother posting a comment I was trying to make. I did the same 2 days ago when I hit it after putting effort into a comment. There's a tonne of stuff popping off in Israel right now that I could/would have thrown in the news thread but after hitting the limit and realising I've only gotten half of the stuff I needed to upload done it's just a case of "oh i guess I can't post that" and also now can't post anything else without jumping through hoops. Obviously I could jump through hoops but a bunch of Palestinian propaganda content is likely to get removed uploaded anywhere else and hitting this wall just completely demotivates posting entirely.

Like, 10 would be a better limit. I don't think I've ever done anything where I'd hit that. 6 is not enough if it'll be hit every few days and ruin someone's effort.

I'm unsure what's the limit on pictures per post, my other plan is just use imgur but are there any better options? Thanks in advance

I've had to post my daily bloomer threads to c/chapotraphouse because when I try to post them to bloomer I just get the never ending spinning bear.

Hi there,

I'm not trying to get anyone in trouble, but I've blocked users who I've found annoying (and who find me annoying) and they are still somehow able to see and reply to my comments/posts, which to my understanding should not even be possible. I don't imagine they know they're doing anything wrong by doing that (because they don't know they're blocked) but this definitely seems like a bug.

No, seriously.

But I also can't seem to stay signed in either, so I guess the issue will resolve itself tomorrow.

More info: I can't logout on desktop or mobile; have tried multiple times.

Insert joke about conscription for the posting wars. Bonus points for working in Russia/Ukraine.

The front of "Active" is entirely two-day-old posts with 500 comments by debate bros. "Hot" is just "New."

The old fork had a much better Active sort. If it's not possible for different Lemmys to have different sorts (would is extremely weird, but Lemmy code is weird in general), then it should be upstreamed.

If you're wondering why it's like this, it's two parts:

• hot_rank is (slightly simplified) log(upvotes + 3) / (age_in_hours + 2)^1.8. This means every vote matters less than the last, but every hour costs more than the last. A brand new post with 1 vote is equal to an hour old post with 15 votes. It gets even more stacked when looking at posts with higher vote counts: a new post with 10 votes is equivalent to an hour old post with 120 votes.

• "Active" is just hot_rank but with the post age replaced with the time since the last comment. Every comment "bumps" the post; the age of the post does not matter at all until the two day cutoff is hit. Because hot_rank is overwhelmingly just "new", this is overwhelmingly just "newest comment" with a mild bonus to highly voted posts.

My first suggestion would be restoring the version of the sort from the fork. It worked for years.

Failing that, I would suggest replacing hot_rank with (upvotes+5)/(age_in_hours+5) (you can replace the 5s with any small positive number and get similar results). This will fix Hot, and improve Active, but Active will still be a dumpster fire, because the age is time since last comment, which still prioritizes flame wars. I would suggest changing Active entirely to use (comment_count + upvotes + 5)/(age_in_hours +5).

(PS: I'd go submit a PR but it'd out my real identity and I think it'd get ignored anyway.)

cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/482855

I didn't know where to post this, so I hope it's fine here. I use the 'litely' theme on Hexbear because I need a high-contrast setting that won't strain my eyes due to my low eyesight. Unfortunately, the 'Featured Posts' section is completely unreadable. Could somebody please fix the CSS of the 'litely' and 'litely-red' themes?

That's how it looks like:

Thank you!

I haven't been able to figure out any rhyme or reason for it, the site just intermittently doesn't load

Sometimes when I run out of local posts, my gut still hungers for slop, but I don't want to sift through posts I already read.

Until today I had an animated profile picture, changed it for owl appreciation day and now I it won't let me re-use the profile picture I had?

It's even there on the server @ https://hexbear.net/pictrs/image/49d5c974-6784-446d-af10-5c369c7781c7.webp?format=webp

But if I try to add it to my profile picture again, it fails.

If I had been warned about this I would not have ever changed it. Give it back :(

EDIT: Solution - https://hexbear.net/comment/3855898

I'm seeing a recurring issue where I don't have any replies in my inbox, or I have two from fellow hexbears, but then I go to look at a recent comment I'm expecting a liberal to reply to and their reply has been there for some time. It seems the reply inbox is a little inconsistent with federated users maybe?

Anyway thought I'd share that in case it's helpful. I don't /really/ mind not getting dinged with replies from liberals since my comrades are always happy to carry the load.

it happens when reloading a page or navigating back. it shows me a different user's account in the top bar -- worried that if someone hits stop during page load, they'd actually be able to impersonate another user's account. this appears to be random and I've seen several different accounts over the course of the day.

sorry if this is an already known bug or if it's just a cosmetic issue that doesn't actually give anyone perms.

these comments were removed for transphobia because they're kind of close to attack helicopter ahit but I don't think this is a tranaphobe making a joke, it's just a enby with an unconventional gender identity. it's not up to us to decide thir identity isn't valid. I'm open to having my mind changed - if it's invalidating others' identities somewhere - but absent that I don't think this is transphobia.

Over and over again I edited the "body" for this post - https://hexbear.net/post/438570?scrollToComments=false

• When it was blank - I edited it, clicked save over and over but it stayed blank.

• Finally I wrote "testing", I clicked save, and "testing" became body.

• But when I edited "testing" and did the click save dance a couple times - nothing happened. It stayed as "testing".

• In frustration I reloaded the page - and "body" was my final edit.

1. You reply to a comment
2. You write something
3. You don't post it yet, but upvote the comment at this point
4. Your text gets deleted and the answer box closed.

~~Edit: I tried a third time. It didn't work either.~~

It finally worked.

I don't think I've ever mentioned this, but you guys were the partly the ones that gave me the strength to come out. It helps that transphobes are rightfully bullied the fuck off of our site. Transphobes are banned fast and I hope that never changes.

That's all. Glad you're here.

I don't remember the name of the theme, but I feel like the bisexual color palette matched the logo well and was pleasing to the eye. How difficult would it be to modify it and use it for the newer site?

• My comment appeared in my history.

• It appeared if I duplicated the tab.

• But in the tab I posted it - the comment did not appear and I got the pop up warning. I had to click "Leave" to - um... - leave.

The comment in question - https://hexbear.net/comment/3710132

Don't start loading it until you type more than 3 or 4 letters after the colon, that way the list shrinks exponentially and the freeze-up is much shorter.

I had a lot of anxiety and obsession with getting upbears in posts and comments and felt a weird competitiveness that wasn't healthy. It's nice being able to turn off the number of votes and just engage without trying to literally score points.

Thanks for being less and less like every day!