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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.
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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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Edit: Are there alternate domain names for Hextube?
Not quite, but there's still https://cytu.be/r/hexbear from before hextube was set up
I guess that means the Sailor Moon channel is gone for the time being. — Not that I actually used that channel, but it's like... This felt so avoidable, right?
Like I've tended not to get frustrated with the administration of this site, but this incident has me a little ticked off, frankly. It's a level of carelessness and incompetence that really should not be shown from the staff of a site like this. And I know CARCOSA itself said it's all out of mōshiwake, but I still feel like berating the site staff a little for this incident, you know?
I don't know what this comment said, but I'm sorry if I was being hurtful. At this point I'm feeling like it's probably gonna turn out fine in the end.
We have to link from tankie.tube accounts though since vimeo capped file sizes for free accounts and as far as I'm aware there's no way to get that to work with cy.tube.
vimeo banned cytube and it also doesn't support tankietube - it's only an option for youtube, whatever other specific sites they allow, and maybe some file hosting site. additionally the last time we used cytube the room we used was https://cytu.be/r/hextube
You could tecnically also use google drive, but it requires a script and you need to host stuff in google drive (which is known for striking copyrighted stuff). We can also watch stuff that already is on YT
yes, a long term user had a playlist of movies on youtube that we watched one of the last times hexbear's cytube instance was down. i believe the google drive script is very inconsistent at best and might even be outright broken, going off memory from looking into it a long while ago.
regardless, i think we have a few workarounds if everyone wants to do that. if not, we can just skip tonight or watch whatever - a user did plan on queuing something from youtube anyway.