Hello users of hexbear when this post is approximately 24 hours old we will have a downtime lasting about an hour for maintenance and upgrading to lemmy version 0.19.7
https://join-lemmy.org/news/2024-11-08_-_Lemmy_Release_v0.19.6
contains some of the changes, some notable ones are:
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Automatically remove tracking parameters from URLs
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Fix bug when commenting in local-only community
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Fixing peertube and ordinary video embeds
Also a reminder about 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.
To gain matrix verification, all you need to do is navigate to my hexbear userprofile and click the send a secure private message including your hexbear username.
if you need a fun distraction for the hour, might I suggest Shapez?
it's a simple-to-learn, hard-to-master game in which you build on previous skills to solve puzzles; you use little factory bits to extract shapes from the map and send them to the hub.
the puzzle part is that you have to deliver the required shapes exactly (orientation, color, etc) and deal with different rates of input and output from various components. to do this, you will use reading, deductive and spatial reasoning, creativity, and eventually, math and color theory.
further explanation
that sounds complicated (and it can be!), but it is presented so simply and elegantly that children can play it. some readers might need help at times with the directions, but the illustrations and simple language make them relatively unchallenging.even my elderly mother with dementia was into it. idk if she will be able to play much beyond the first couple levels because it starts involving rotational orientation in a way she's not capable of processing anymore, but it's cool that she could follow something that I find so engaging that I've lost hours of sleep playing it.
where to play
you can play it free in your browser at Shapez.io, and there are free phone apps, too. I bought it through Steam, where it's usually $1 (!!! ๐คฉ) and I've gotten so much entertainment mileage out of that dollar.phone/touchscreen interface thoughts
I found using my finger to control things instead of a mouse pretty frustrating, but a stylus would probably be small enough to have fine control. I didn't try because I sincerely do not need the ability to enjoyably play that game on my phone too ๐ I would be late to everything and never get anything done.๐ค maybe I shouldn't suggest this, everyone who plays is going to lose track of that hour so fast and this place will be a ghost town when it comes back up
timeguessr also very fun if you don't like puzzles