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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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this is very funny. what are we going to change our name to this time?
anyway unfortunate that it happened, but it sounds like the admins aren't that much to blame.
imo i really still think we are for not following through on our migration plans after being temporarily sated with the renewal and reassurances. naive grace on our parts. thank you for attempting to take some heat off our backs here and the general sentiment but we really did fuck up here so π mΕshiwake arimasen π
Grace and charity are always important to extend, even when you get burnt by it (as you all did in this case).
Does this mean that there was a renewal or do you mean there are just plans for renewal? It looked like yβall were looking to not pay for renewal costs
there was a renewal. we were looking to get access credentials from the former admin in Sep 2024 which they said they would give when they could but would continue payments as usual until then. evidently that has not been the case.
me and another mod thought it would be best to keep hexbear but change the domain like for example hexbear.su or hexbear.chat
hexbear.su would be so funny it'd piss off the liberals so much. they already hate that it's called lemmy.ml lmao
it would but sadly we need to register with a passport in order to have it
Does anyone here have a soviet passport? Does a Russian one work as well?
You can freely have hexbear.zone if you want. Am I the only one here who loves the .zone domain spaces?
hexbear.su would be incredible
I don't think this really matters and am not peeved at them, but this is really the only thing that a site admin does lol