Hexbear Proposals
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this post was submitted on 23 Nov 2024
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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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Some are complaining about the amount of space all the site-pinned posts take up.
Understandable but I think unpinning any of them is a bad solution, especially because I bet it would kill traffic to the empoc and disability megas.
There's a simple button to hide the me gas, can't people use that if they think there are "too many megas"?
i agree with ashinadash on this, there's already a button to hide featured posts for those who are complaining about the space being taken up.
i personally think it's great that these megas are front and center on the site. it makes gaining access to safe spaces easier and it shows that the site values those spaces. the pins drive engagement and sustain these communities on hexbear.
To anyone backing that proposal:
Those megas should be taking up space, disabled, empoc, and trans comms should be occupying space on the front page
Like /u/ashinadash said the last time these megas (especially disabled and POC) were relegated to a tiny link it effectively killed engagement in these comms until they were restored. That was for the first fundraiser (and every mega was pinned which made it fair) but unpinning those threads sends a bad message to the communities that are being relegated to a link at the bottom of the 'general' megathread that remains. A lot of the empoc users have already expressed that they don't feel comfortable engaging outside of that comm.
Personally any complaints about these comms/megas that are mostly for marginalized people "taking too much space" is sus to me because it implies there's a real Hexbear that deserves to take up space on the front page and a non-real Hexbear that doesn't. I would be very put off by this if it was to pass.
I don't think it's a coincidence that those megas being pinned front and center - especially as safe spaces - has sent a message to people from those communities and drawn them to Hexbear. The action of removing them from the front page sends the same message in the opposite direction. Those pinned megas are what structurally differentiates Hexbear as an intersectional social media website - it's working, and I don't think saving a number of users from the labour of having to scroll past (or click "-/+") is worth it or a valid reason to change that.
Hexbear is better as a seamless hybrid of chatrooms (pinned megas, esp for marginalized people) and Lemmy algorithm driven posts and comms.