Sorry I should have clarified: not looking for Hexbear lore in general. I have seen a lot of Hexbear content, so I have a solid understanding on the site and the users. Don’t want to start a debate about that here because that debate always turn nasty.
What I am looking for is: what happened in the past month-ish? How did you all lost your domain? How and when did you get it back? Why did it take so long for federation to be back? Is there any other change made to the site during this downtime?
sorry that’s my bad it was hexbear.chat that won .com came in third, i voted for another one entirely which is why i misremembered but i went back to look for you.
i think (and recommend verifying yourself the threads on this are all public) the admin who actually owned the domain was on a hiatus when the domain was about to expire. They paid the registrar during the ‘pay us or else’ phase but the registrar put the domain up for auction anyway so it was unclear if we were going to get the domain back. chapo.chat was used as a fallback while we figured out next steps in case the registrar didn’t follow their own rules hence the vote. in the end the registrar realized their error i guess and we got the domain back and everything is fine now.
Since the spirit of the site is the comrades and not the domain name everyone took it in good fun for the most part.
I think the admins wanted to made sure everything was stable before refederation because they are polite and didn’t want to cause more work for other admins, but that’s just a guess if they said specifically why i didn’t catch it.
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Sorry I should have clarified: not looking for Hexbear lore in general. I have seen a lot of Hexbear content, so I have a solid understanding on the site and the users. Don’t want to start a debate about that here because that debate always turn nasty.
What I am looking for is: what happened in the past month-ish? How did you all lost your domain? How and when did you get it back? Why did it take so long for federation to be back? Is there any other change made to the site during this downtime?
there was a hiccup with the registrar and it got resolved. we voted and almost became hexbear.chat. not very juicy i’m afraid.
edit: misremebered it was .chat not .com
The most anticapitalist instance getting a .com domain would be hilarious
But there gotta be more to the story. Was the registrar being “shady” as @[email protected] said? Why did federation take so long?
sorry that’s my bad it was hexbear.chat that won .com came in third, i voted for another one entirely which is why i misremembered but i went back to look for you.
i think (and recommend verifying yourself the threads on this are all public) the admin who actually owned the domain was on a hiatus when the domain was about to expire. They paid the registrar during the ‘pay us or else’ phase but the registrar put the domain up for auction anyway so it was unclear if we were going to get the domain back. chapo.chat was used as a fallback while we figured out next steps in case the registrar didn’t follow their own rules hence the vote. in the end the registrar realized their error i guess and we got the domain back and everything is fine now.
Since the spirit of the site is the comrades and not the domain name everyone took it in good fun for the most part.
I think the admins wanted to made sure everything was stable before refederation because they are polite and didn’t want to cause more work for other admins, but that’s just a guess if they said specifically why i didn’t catch it.