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.
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
Pinning @piggy@hexbear.net comment:
True Hexbear Fedayeen have hexbear hard coded in their hosts file and are currently enjoying their 
On OSX/Linux just add 37.187.73.130 hexbear.net to the bottom of /etc/hosts and you'll get your back.
On Windows its at C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts
On Phones it's much harder so all your are lost.
USAID funding gets slashed
Hexbear mysteriously loses access to the site owner
hmmm
Call me silly, tell me to touch grass, but hexbear has been a big part of my life for a few years now.
I don't want to see anyone go away, and i have faith we'll be back up in whatever form before long. Yall have given me so much over the years, and been by my side as I grow, through all my ups and downs.
Idk, feels like i had more to say, but lost my train of thought. Outside hangin with the corgi rn.
I love you all, and can't wait until we're back in whatever form.
Please reply to this comment with name suggestions in the event we have to change from hexbear.net
Someone here already registered hexbear.gay that redirects to a community here, if getting access is an option. Fits with the majority of the userbase.
i'm with the folks wanting different variations of hexbear (.zone/.space/.chat/.red)
Any upbeared suggestion of a specific domain name will immediately get snapped up by other actors. I'd kind of advise against public specific suggestions.
Bearhex.net and we replace the hexagon shaped bears with bear shaped hexagons
There’s one thing I’m sure of, when this is all over, “visit hexbear.net” is going to be added as an emote
when the site gets back up and running, please make the "visit hexbear.net" textbox that's replacing all the emojis rn into an actual emoji. maybe called like ":we-fucked-up:" or something
I don't think it's really a big deal beyond the work it'll take to fix things, honestly don't let yourselves get dragged into a bidding war with some lib or something that wants to fuck with us.
that is my personal stance, and i want to see what the community wants to be named
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So this is a man-in-the-middle attack waiting to happen isn’t it? Buy the domain, setup a reverse proxy that points to the original hexbear server IP and start logging all requests.
Please don't spend a single cent recovering the domain. The closing bid is probably going to be >$1000, which most of you probably couldn't afford anyways. What's done is done.
The way forward is to accept the lost of the domain name, come up with internal processes to make sure that retiring admins have to fork over the credentials, and either come up with another site name or reuse chapo.chat. Please don't try to attempt to outbid these libs and definitely do not make some humiliating backroom deal with those libs over the administration of this site for the sake of getting the domain back.
... What about maliciously driving the price up for whichever mfer lib trying to grab it
Make sure to invalidate all the jwt tokens. Whoever buys the domain might be able to grab them from people still visiting the old site
Are you sure this is not DOGE cutting the funding off like they did with USAID?
Doesn't seem worth it to buy the domain again and it sounds like we're looking at downtime no matter what.
On the bright side we have the opportunity to absolutely lose our fucking minds over renaming the site again.
Is it a coincidence that Matt Christman rejoined the podcast this year? And ChaCha rises again?
I think not. Trust the plan.
If it stays under $500 USD out the door I will buy it, and give it to someone here.
How do I go about doing so and retaining my semi anonymity?
we have other people open to this but on a personal note i would rather 50 people get food than pay for that.
Letting the domain name expire and get auctioned off as a bit is not okay. 😔
pouring one out for all of the hexbears who don't know how to reconnect with the site
hope they find their way back to us some day
As a federal agent assigned to Hexbear, please get things working again soon. If I get reassigned they might send me to some far-right place and I'll have to spend all day scrolling though racism, shock images, and racist shock images. The team's all rooting for you!
Also, if anyone has inside info about the new name, DM me. We've got a betting pool going and I intend to win.
About the donations, should people stop contributing to the liberapay/hexbear account?
I will buy the domain at auction in exchange for complete and total immunity from the mods. This is NOT a bit
Letting the hexbear domain ownership expire as a joke is not OK
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