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Hexbear Proposals chapo.chat matrix room.

This will be a place for site proposals and discussion before implementation on the site.
Every proposal will also be mirrored into a pinned post on the hexbear community.

Any other ideas for helping to integrate the two spaces are welcome to be commented here or messaged to me directly.

Within Hexbear Proposals you can see the history of all site proposals and react to them, indicating a vote for or against a proposal.

Sending messages will be restricted to verified and active hexbear accounts older than 1 month with their matrix id in their hexbear user profile.

All top level messages within the channel must be a Proposals (idea for changing the site), Feedback (regarding non-technical aspects of the site, for technical please use https://hexbear.net/c/feedback), or Appeals (regarding admin/moderator actions).

Discussion regarding these will be within nested threads under the post.

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I tend to purge my account around once a year for opsec but I want to keep this username for when Chuck kicks the bucket. How would I go about that? Also if anyone has any username recommendations that would be appreciated.

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[–] RedWizard@hexbear.net 8 points 6 days ago (1 children)

You could use the API to pull all your posts and delete them. My understanding is that posts that are deleted eventually become purged from the DB. Comments you can always undelete, so you would want to have your script edit the comment before deleting it. You'll have to respect the rate limits while doing that, which, I think, are part of the site json object.

[–] Edie@hexbear.net 10 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

Comments you can always undelete

That isn't true anymore, they get deleted after 30 days.

It's still a fine idea to edit them, but I just wanted to correct it.

[–] RedWizard@hexbear.net 6 points 6 days ago

Oh, I didn't know that! That's good to know.