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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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[–] makotech222@hexbear.net 1 points 2 days ago

Getting fixed in the next version of lemmy https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/pull/3105

[–] Meltyheartlove@hexbear.net 53 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] Dirt_Owl@hexbear.net 33 points 1 week ago (1 children)

WHAT IS THAT THING WHERE ARE THE BELOVED CORNERS?!?

[–] Enjoyer_of_Games@hexbear.net 21 points 1 week ago (1 children)

only liberals can see the corners. congratulations you now see the bear's true form. did you look at your address bar yet? pretty freaky right?

[–] Dirt_Owl@hexbear.net 14 points 1 week ago

Oh shit oh fuck

[–] Wheaties@hexbear.net 48 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] Comrade_Mushroom@hexbear.net 12 points 1 week ago (2 children)

What's the story behind this unfinished command and conquer sprite? I never found out.

[–] d_cagno@hexbear.net 28 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Early days of hexbear (maybe still chapo.chat then?), image compression wasn't in place. Someone tried to upload this massive image and it broke the site. I believe the emoji is based off what actually managed to load.

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

Bar none the funniest day in site history

[–] Comrade_Mushroom@hexbear.net 4 points 1 week ago

Even more hilarious than I thought it would be

[–] SkingradGuard@hexbear.net 38 points 1 week ago

We're sending your data to China by rooting your phone. Thank us later doggirl-thumbsup

[–] Test_Tickles@hexbear.net 34 points 1 week ago

everything's computer

[–] Dirt_Owl@hexbear.net 30 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Huh? Are you... Trying to download Hexbear?

[–] propter_hog@hexbear.net 29 points 1 week ago

You wouldn't download a website, would you?

[–] comrade_pibb@hexbear.net 27 points 1 week ago

Computer, bring up all the posts. ALL. THE. POSTS.

[–] Rom@hexbear.net 29 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

It contains several thousand copies of pigpoopballs.jpg.

[–] CredibleBattery@hexbear.net 29 points 1 week ago
[–] Mindfury@hexbear.net 28 points 1 week ago

POV: you opened the emoji picker.

OK, so that's only about 220 MB if you scroll through every single one to load them all simultaneously, but still.

[–] blobjim@hexbear.net 22 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

yeah it's ridiculous. It takes up an order of magnitude more space than any other website in desktop Firefox as well. It looks like it's mostly in cache storage "instance-cache" and "precache-v2" probably created by the web CacheStorage API.

I wonder if it's just that the lemmy web frontend uses more modern web APIs that most sites don't use, and the caching is just dynamic based on available space or something? Probably not even configured by lemmy.

I think it's part of the whole "unused space is wasted space" way of thinking about computers. It just uses as much space as it can until it can't anymore. It doesn't take into account that people may not want to thrash their storage device, and may want to download and install things that take up lots of space. At which point all the caches that every program maintains become a burden because there is no real automatic cleaning of old cached data.

[–] tim_curry@hexbear.net 23 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

I always hated that "unused ram is wasted ram" as a justification for heavy bloated software. Like I bought this ram to run more than 1 application at a time, what is this? Windows 3.1?

Unused ram is space for me the user to choose to put more processes into

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

The idea is that programs are supposed to be aware of "memory pressure" and react to high pressure by releasing resources, but I don't think it's really implemented by most things. I guess swap space is supposed to make full memory not matter as much but still.

[–] Lemister@hexbear.net 9 points 1 week ago

You know using less storage space was once a sign of progress.

[–] Sulv@hexbear.net 22 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] Mindfury@hexbear.net 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

yeah cached emoji and pfps is my guess

[–] RedWizard@hexbear.net 2 points 1 week ago

Yeah all the emoji are full resolution.

[–] thelastaxolotl@hexbear.net 21 points 1 week ago

og-hex-bear they are wide

[–] robot_dog_with_gun@hexbear.net 20 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] Enjoyer_of_Games@hexbear.net 36 points 1 week ago (2 children)

who the fuck is scraeming 'close some tabs' at my house.

[–] RNAi@hexbear.net 19 points 1 week ago (1 children)

That infinite symbol appears when more than 99

[–] JoeByeThen@hexbear.net 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

What the‽ You pick your address bar up off the floor right now, mister! boohoo

[–] RNAi@hexbear.net 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Way less annoying this way

[–] JoeByeThen@hexbear.net 5 points 1 week ago

Ah, gotcha. I'll have to try it sometime. I feel like my fat thumbs would smack it too often tho.

[–] Mindfury@hexbear.net 14 points 1 week ago

show yourself coward

[–] buh@hexbear.net 19 points 1 week ago

Too much liberalism

[–] TankieTanuki@hexbear.net 16 points 1 week ago

Living on your SSD rent-free! hexbear-retro

[–] Wheaties@hexbear.net 12 points 1 week ago
[–] KuroXppi@hexbear.net 6 points 1 week ago

Hmmm seems low

[–] quarrk@hexbear.net 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I posted about this almost 2 years ago. Thought it was fixed lol, I guess not. But at least there are instructions on how to clear it. You could just use an app like Voyager instead of the website.

https://hexbear.net/post/280955