On this day, 4 years ago the site was first launched (then a day later the first post made), Formed from chapotraphouse remnants, the old admins decided to make a site using Lemmy as its base. Originally called chapo.chat, Hexbear has grown into one of the biggest instances in the lemmyverse.

Despite various sitewide struggle sessions, wrecker incursions from other forums and federation drama, Hexbear has keep growing strong in its 4th year, now with 4 megathreads, over 4 million comments, 300k posts and much more.

Its being great running the general megathread for a bit over 3 years, since i took over i have tried to get it mostly in time and just one unlike during the old times, i like to think i have done a decent job, plus i have also added a bit of reading material to them so you nerds can learn from them and i like to think you have been reading them garcia-cock-shotty, its also nice to see the new megathreads how they have slowing grown up to the size to the old general mega in the time of the old admins.

dont have much else to say so have a good day nerd. also

Whats has been your favorite post/event from last year (july 2023-july 2024)?

I wont lie, all the fedidrama has been fun to read, especially when libs wander here

Megathreads and spaces to hang out:

reminders:

  • 💚 You nerds can join specific comms to see posts about all sorts of topics
  • 💙 Hexbear’s algorithm prioritizes comments over upbears
  • 💜 Sorting by new you nerd
  • 🌈 If you ever want to make your own megathread, you can reserve a spot here nerd
  • 🐶 Join the unofficial Hexbear-adjacent Mastodon instance toots.matapacos.dog

Links To Resources (Aid and Theory):

Aid:

Theory:

Also 24 hours after this is posted the admins are closing the site for a day, sorry

    • nothx [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
      9·
      1 month ago

      Huh… I definitely did have it set, I think the app I’m using may have cleared it… Is there a rule against not having it set?

      • Yor [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
        9·
        1 month ago

        some form of pronouns is supposed to be mandatory (like part of setting up an account afaik), but I think there are issues sometimes that let people have an account without pronouns. there was a recent issue with an update as well that had to be fixed. do you mind sharing what app you’re using?

        • nothx [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
          12·
          1 month ago

          I was using Thunder when this happened I think. It’s not on the open App Store yet, only available via TestFlight I think.

          I hopped into the website to update my pronouns again, now I’m back to using Voyager. Hopefully it was a fluke with Thunder.

          Thanks for the heads up.