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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.

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.

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we fucked up (chapo.chat)

submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by CARCOSA@hexbear.net to c/hexbear@hexbear.net

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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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[–] invalidusernamelol@hexbear.net 13 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I sent a message to SAV explaining the situation to see if there's anything they can do.

There has recently been a lapse in domain registration for the site hexbear.net and said domain has entered the auction phase.

This domain is currently hosting an active site with many daily users, the previous domain holder has vanished and the lapse in payment was not something the current administration team was able to rectify without their information.

Currently, the site has been redirected to chapo.chat, but losing the hexbear.net registration will pose a large security risk for users of the site as a malicious actor could MITM them.

If there is any way we could transfer domain ownership to someone affiliated with the current site's administration team, possibly paying a fine for missed payment and ending the auction it would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you.

[–] rafflesia@hexbear.net 13 points 1 week ago

Mad unfortch but I'd rather it be this than some kind of malicious actor. Kinda wild that federation would have such a hard time with domains changing, thought situations like this were what it was designed for.

[–] EstraDoll@hexbear.net 13 points 1 week ago

today's megathread looks funny

[–] Florn@hexbear.net 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)

hexbear.two

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[–] Sulv@hexbear.net 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Where were you when you find out hexbear kill

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[–] whatdoiputhere12@hexbear.net 12 points 1 week ago (2 children)

oh, so that's why hexbear.net leads to a domain selling site.

how did you guys find out the full story? i used lemmygrad.ml

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[–] viva_la_juche@hexbear.net 12 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Letting the url expire for a bit wasn’t okay

[–] Guamer@hexbear.net 12 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

we fucked up

Story of Hexbear's life

[–] operacion_ogro@hexbear.net 12 points 1 week ago

socialism-beer If Hexbear were a beer

[–] TheLepidopterists@hexbear.net 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It was messed up of the admin team to make me touch grass until I could figure out my password to login on Chapo dot chat (lmao just kidding suckers, I just talked to people in XHS about parenting).

But for real I do have one question. In light of emojis all being flattened-bernie are we gonna lose our emojis when we go to hexbeanis.su or whatever?

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[–] Parsani@hexbear.net 12 points 1 week ago

The important question here is what the taglines which reference this event will be

[–] whatdoiputhere12@hexbear.net 12 points 1 week ago

aaaaaaannnnnnnd, it's gone

enjoyed seeing the emojis while it lasted, back to visit hexbear.net

[–] Sickos@hexbear.net 12 points 1 week ago

ope

[–] kristina@hexbear.net 12 points 1 week ago

Hexbear.lgbt let's gooo

[–] Parsani@hexbear.net 11 points 1 week ago

Pour one out for hexbear, I had to load chapo.chat. End of an era.

[–] MarmiteLover123@hexbear.net 11 points 1 week ago (7 children)

So how are we going to contact everyone that's still using the old domain and has no idea what's happening? There are people that rely on this website for funds to survive in Palestine, and we have homeless users and users struggling to make rent that also rely on us. It would be terrible if they just thought that we dropped off of the face of the Earth and were left stranded.

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