They're volunteers with jobs of their own here trying to make this cool space for all of us.
We don't have the benefit of the right, where there are idle rich with all their time on their hands.
The reactions on hex vs the reactions off hex have been hilariously different.
On hex, the shit posting continues, like the band on the Titanic, except the Titanic has always been sinking so it's not even any different.
Off hex there are some who laugh with mirth thinking "haha they must be so sad at the end of their site!" Not realizing that it's never the end, it can't actually end, and that even if it were the shit posting would continue.
It can't ever end we're insane clowns in the worlds fastest merry go round
The kind Vladimir Clownin would have honked everyone here
they really think we're angry about this but everyone here is just chillin
That's exactly how it went when we heard the rumor the sub was going to be taken down
it's not even the first time the site has changed domain. like to me this is a silly situation to have happened, but is honestly not a big deal
They definitely care a lot more about this site than we do considering how much time they spend posting about us.
Honestly the struggle sessions have felt far more tense than this ever could, lol
What Hexbear is like and what people say about Hexbear are chalk and cheese anyway.
Yeah until Xi, Putin and/or George Soros' funding ends, we have to keep posting anyway.
It's bad that we lost the domain (from a security perspective) but it's also really funny. So who can say if it's good or bad?
Clone the site('s look), harvest usernames/passwords, use them here.
I think there's a few more technical things that could happen with tokens and such, but as I understand it those can be solved by invalidating those tokens (or maybe they'll expire by the time the auction ends).
If a phishing site emerges under the hexbear.net domain then you just need to not visit it and especially not log in there. Following these instructions will prevent you doing so accidentally but must be done on every device you access hexbear with.
The real risk is to people who visit hexbear.net in a couple of weeks time without knowing this has happened. If the domain just ends up linking to a cryptocoin or rickroll then risk of doxxing will be considerably lower.
Not much you can do as an admin when someone else holds the keys to the registrations.
I have it easy with TankieTube because I'm the only admin. I can't imagine how difficult it must be to manage hexbear, which is run by a sprawling ad hoc network of volunteers.
I've had nightmares about similar things happening to my website.
The admins could have anticipated the issue and created a life raft preemptively. The more warning given the fewer comrades would be caught by any malicious owner of the domain.
This is a lesson that should have been learned from the subreddit and frankly it's embarrassing that this has happened to a community that should know better.
Yeah, even if you ignore the technical side (and there was stuff that could be done), they didn’t even make a preemptive announcement of the domain expiration, and of how to get status updates in the dark period.
Kinda stunning that the first any users heard of this was the site going up for auction lmao
ya once I became a treasurer but never managed to get total authority.. you had to organize the prior and new treasurer be at a specific bank at the same time to do some kind of process . Since i had the chequebook and was able to sign cheques and deposit cash it was functional for a while. But eventually it wasn't.
Was this for a club or something? They had their bank account in the name of someone inactive?
I'm not mad but it is like, comically bad. Keeping the URL registration going is literally the bare minimum for a site admin, now anyone with some cash can buy the website, copy the Hexbear layout, and steal the info of anyone who registers to hexbear.net. Definitely reinforces my belief that Hexbear is for shitposting purposes only.
Yeah, this is 100% amateur hour. As soon as the old admin ghosted the current staff, they should've immediately dropped whatever plan they had for the website and began migrating to a new domain. Hexbear.net should've just been a single link/redirect that goes to the new domain by January 2025.
And not to relitigate old struggle sessions because what's done is done, but it makes the whole /c/the_dunk_tank drama shitstorm even sillier in retrospect. Instead of prioritizing something that's absolutely a potential all-hands-on-deck crisis, the admins chose to prioritize something completely inconsequential in comparison. It's very much arguing over the upholstery of a particular chair in the Titanic right after the Titanic got hit by the iceberg.
I really hope the admins are just early 20-something year olds who are busy juggling school, work, and org work because damn, this does not reflect well on their collective judgment at all.
Oh yeah that is wild in retrospect, that the channel banning drama was such a focus of energy compared to this. Crazy stuff lol.
Like, the struggle session should've been people fighting over what the new website should be called, not what a bunch of comms should be called. It's missing the forest for a leaf.
problem is the og site admin stopped talking to us and just fucked off to la la land, not much we could do
but definitely, hexbear is useful for shitposting and not much else
To be honest, they could have transferred things ahead of time, made plans in advance etc. Many such things. This kind of unexpected, sudden, domain failure isn't something that should have happened, even with the original admin ghosting.
I'm not like mad or anything, but it's not like there was nothing they could have done.
it's not like there was nothing they could have done.
Literally just post lol, the one thing we all do here every day. One post would have revealed all of these potential issues and remedies
I'm afraid not- the admins have to keep a veil of secrecy around their actions at all times like the college of cardinals picking a new pope except it's over whether or not luigi is too hot to lionize
The reason to fight for the domain would be to protect users from getting doxxed. But the auction has more than a week left and is already over $600 :/
I think it's a really funny bit and I commend the mods for keeping it interesting
I am mad, but not because of this. No I'm mad because I WRITE SO MANY BANGERS AND NONE OF THEM ARE MADE INTO TAGLIATELLE WTF
Please don't actually spend over a grand (I think there is at least a week left until auction ends and I've heard it's at $676 so expecting the worst). Maybe just advertise the new place on lemmygrad or something if they allow it there when moving to a whole new domain.
On the other hand I'm glad I viewed some posts about chapo chat previously otherwise I would've been very confused and sad to lose the website.
Just did now. Lol, lmao even. Unironically funny, sad that the admins are stressed about it, it's gonna be fine.
Imagine the slop we'll get when some lib buys the domain and tries to own us by linking it to the Wikipedia article for tiananmen
Also "why are frothing anti-communists downvoting a post calling out transphobic BS?" Total mystery.
Redirecting Joanne kowling Rowling is a decent first idea I guess. Hope they workshop it a bit
This person’s obsession with Luigi is just absurd, even compared to ours.
