Okay dumb question maybe, but is there any possibility we could pool together to try to get it back in the auction?
this post was submitted on 11 Feb 2025
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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
I will do my best to answer questions
Hi yes. Boys with brown fluffy hair or shoulder length blond straight hair? Always thought I preferred the former, but I'm going to a movie this weekend with a guy who matches the latter description 
he's such a dweeb it's so endearing
Hate to say it but this is the problem with everything online
The revolution will not be televised and all that (for various reasons)
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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As an aside, this site has a way better layout and interface than all the other lemmies. Seriously the most comfortable way to browse and it even works well on mobile.
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- is there an estimate on when this access problem will hit chapo.chat?
- how long will the direct IP workaround function?
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Pour one out for hexbear, I had to load chapo.chat. End of an era.
this is at least 79% funny
lol, lmao even
Visit hexbear.net
how is it that I got here with no issue and can read this post? was the outage just an initial DNS issue related to the expiry?
your browser has the ip address of the hexbear server cached, so its not asking the DNS server for hexbear.net's location, its using the old location you have stored
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You fucked up
Incredible new chapter to the hexbear saga. What can you do but laugh
Also PSA: replacing "hexbear.net" with "chapo.chat" appears to make links work again, albeit with some formatting errors.
The bed has bin shat in
Jfc can I not even go to sleep without the equivalent of the USSR dissolving happening?
Just in case where is our backup contact point. Like if this site breaks where to I look for the new one? Like... true anons reddit?
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