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
Please reply to this comment with name suggestions in the event we have to change from hexbear.net
Hexbear.chat
Yeah I'd rather the site stay hexbear. Almost any tld is fine.
Some has already taken it!
Created: 2025-02-11 21:24:22 UTCYeah, think an issue with posting names is that it makes it really easy to snipe them
The two I’ve posted, hexbear.zone and hexbear.net.cn I’m already squatting on now
Actually not bad
i'm with the folks wanting different variations of hexbear (.zone/.space/.chat/.red)
Would make it a lot easier for people, who are currently in the dark about current events, finding this place again.
FINALLY! Finally it is time for hereshowberniecanstill.win
Someone here already registered hexbear.gay that redirects to a community here, if getting access is an option. Fits with the majority of the userbase.
I like it
Chuds: Heh I'll show those stupid hexberians, "hexbear.GAY"
Bear Site Folks: Cool, thank you!
They tried to take us down but they only made us stronger
hexbear.zone
I have a friend who is willing to help us get hexbear.su. I don't have a Russian passport, so the stability will be an issue, but we could get it for the bit. Should I pursue this?
Never mind, I didn't realize that an Amerikkkan passport works for .su
Whitehouse.gov
I think the best option is some variation of hexbear as opposed to a whole new name. The only problem I could see from that is if whoever ends up buying the original domain redirects it to something horrible. Probably wouldn't want a similar domain name in that instance.
shitbird.com
hexbear.red
Chapo.chat
this domain name has the same issue that caused the hexbear.net outage
communismwill.win
donothing.win
i legit think it's funny to have to change domains again and support the saving of $ on not bidding for the old one. i mean, it blows that this will create extra work for the already voluntary maintainers.
i don't really have a good suggestion, but it should be something equally inscrutable, cryptic, or possibly even a riff on hexbear like bexhare or hexbeanis. i like the mythology that whenever "things get too hot" the community changes its name to throw off the scent and fool our adversaries. i expect this would be the last name change, but it's a funny bit especially since the default move is to pretend like the namebrand of any online community is sacrosanct when all it really needs to be is easily memorized and likely pronounceable.
like rizzlen.in or pigmilk.fart
beanis.chat
chapo dot chat
Tankie.HK
Hexbear2.net
exbear.netis available and you could make ith.exbear.nethexbear dot
Hexbear dot Chat
Beanis.net
Redirects to bluebear.ltd, is this some hexbearian's site?
bean.is
tankie.cn or tankie.su
shrekland.net
Hexbear.lgbt
i don't have a specific name in mind, but what about something to do with orcas?
there is already a lemmy instance orcas.enjoying.yachts
exbear.net septbear.chat hexchap.chat
Hexbear dot io is a bitcoin website btw.
With honeybear, honey.tube could be bought for around $100 but the yearly cost will be around $22.
Are you a bee?
pigpoop.beanis.net
ursusfront
dopeassbear.net
sickobear dot net