Site update and meta discussion for the intrepid hexagonal bear - Hexbear
chapo.chat
Hello users of hexbear by now you will have noticed that the megathreads are featured again. During the recent challenges we wanted to see what the site is like with no pinned megathreads, a pinned megathread portal, in the style of this https://chapo.chat/post/4470784 and finally we are back to status quo. Please give your thoughts on the megathread experiment in comments, if you liked on way over another, etc. On the meta update, a previous admin was able to get the hexbear.net domain back, and we were able to established shared access. We are thankful for everything that they have done as this site would not exist without them, with this shared access the stress of site administration has been lessened. In addition to the domain registrar we have been able to establish shared access for the server provider and are working on shared access to donation accounts (patreon/liberapay) Payment has been reestablished from the donation account for the domain and servers, and we will be working towards making a financial transparency report that lays out how much donations we receive, what our costs are and what our current funds are. We are good for the rest of the year on domain/server payments. I know this is a really confusing, but we are establishing a bitwarden to ensure that all the admins have access to the vital accounts going forward. Please comment any questions, and we will do our best to answer, apologies to the person who commented on the previous post that we should do the megathread experiment when we are not undergoing a site crisis, which is valid. TLDR: hexbear.net is back and patriots are in control

On the meta update, a previous admin was able to get the hexbear.net domain back, and we were able to established shared access. We are thankful for everything that they have done as this site would not exist without them, with this shared access the stress of site administration has been lessened.

    • Cowbee [he/they]
      16•2 months ago

      I see more toxicity directed towards Hexbear than from Hexbear, for what it’s worth.

  • Dessalines
    27•2 months ago

    Excellent, really glad that was able to get resolved. We’ve had to deal with domain name issues here too, its an extremely stressful experience that I wouldn’t wish on my worst enemy.

    • Carcosa
      9•2 months ago

      during the domain change new accounts created a new table in the database and are associated with @chapo.chat so we are cleaning that up and doing some security-oriented tasks before re-federation

  • queermunist she/her
    18•2 months ago

    Letting the domain name expire was a pretty good bit, still glad to see it’s been worked out.

  • poVoq
    3•2 months ago

    That’s good to hear. The domain situation definitly sucked and it saves us the effort to update the banlists to a new domain 😅

    • Carcosa
      13•2 months ago

      please stay on your conservative echo-chamber. makes the transphobes contained and easier to avoid

  • Cowbee [he/they]
    24•2 months ago

    The “nothing ever happens” gang stays winning, happy to see federation will resume soon. More Leftists federated is a good thing.

  • @davel@lemmy.mlEnglish
    13•2 months ago

    Comment buried the lede:

    We will be enabling federation after redirecting chapo.chat, hexbear.chat, etc. to hexbear.net

    Edit to add: chapo.chat is currently broken, which may confuse users who’d been told not to go to hexbear.net anymore.

    $ curl -I --no-progress-meter https://hexbear.chat/ 2>&1 | head -n1
curl: (60) SSL: no alternative certificate subject name matches target host name 'hexbear.chat'
$ curl -skI https://hexbear.chat/ | head -n1
HTTP/2 502 
$
    • Carcosa
      8•2 months ago

      apologies i forget that pinned comments / speak as moderator aren’t as clear i’ll edit the original post