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we fucked up

If any users have purchased domain names they can transfer to us now, or share the account credentials for the domain host please message me so i can add the domain you have to the list of options for a domain change.

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

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  • Pinning @piggy@hexbear.net comment:

    True Hexbear Fedayeen have hexbear hard coded in their hosts file and are currently enjoying their

    On OSX/Linux just add 37.187.73.130 hexbear.net to the bottom of /etc/hosts and you'll get your

    back.

    On Windows its at C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts

    On Phones it's much harder so all your

    are lost.

  • Please reply to this comment with name suggestions in the event we have to change from hexbear.net

    We will make a new thread to vote on names shortly.

    The main options are:

    Use a name similar to hexbear.net (like hexbear.chat, h.exbear.net, etc.) while we look at options for recovering hexbear.net

    or

    change to a new name.

    For ease of transfer we cannot accept domain-names that are currently available to purchase, or ones that cannot be transferred or ones where the owner wanting to donate cannot give the credentials for the domain-host account.

  • I know things are bad and all. but while chugging apple juice right now I swallowed a big bunch of air, and it hurt my stummy for a moment before I had to do a big burp, and I want people to acknowledge I was in some very mild discomfort for several seconds back there.

  • Hexbear over $2000. That's so fucking funn- I mean oh no, we're so owned. PLEASE DO NOT CONTINUE THIS BIDDING WAR, WE'RE GOING TO BE SO OWNED

    Should we tell them about our reserve of Xi Bucks waiting to be used? I hear we have $10k.

  • Firstly, lmao.

    Secondly, wow.

    Thirdly, the bidding has to go on for 8 fucking days? How much will the price rise by then? Sheeeeet. I doubt we’d be able to buy it back tbh.

  • Is the old admin doing this to raise the price he/she/they will ask for the buyback? Like allow the auction, buy it for 12 bucks before that finishes, then use it as a "proof of value" to try to get someone to pay them that much for the rights? Idk who the admin is but that's what I'd do if I managed to keep a fascist site in that way, so I could imagine an asshole doing it to us.

    But we're not like fascists and we don't have the money more desire to play that game I hope lol.

  • When I'm in a making sure that the most basic public-facing aspects of the community identity are functional contest and my opponent is a volunteer commie sysadmin:

  • Joe many librals does it take to renew domain subscription??? None??! Too bussy. Theyr steaks subscription

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