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submitted 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) by CARCOSA@hexbear.net to c/hexbear@hexbear.net

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:

  • Automatically remove tracking parameters from URLs

  • Fix bug when commenting in local-only community

  • 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.

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[-] gaystyleJoker@hexbear.net 10 points 3 days ago

can i say something before the site is taken down

[-] Verenata@hexbear.net 29 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Enforced grass touching to begin soon

gunpoint gunpoint-alt

Duel wielding means I'm serious.

[-] FourteenEyes@hexbear.net 30 points 4 days ago

It's not cool to shut down Hexbear as a joke

It won't be funny

[-] RedWizard@hexbear.net 24 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

It is cool to shut down hexbear out of spite though. ๐Ÿ˜Ž

[-] TerminalEncounter@hexbear.net 24 points 4 days ago

who gets to make the "shutting hexbear down as a joke was not okay" post

let's organize and rationalize this, please

[-] Infamousblt@hexbear.net 21 points 4 days ago

Whoever logs on first after the downtime gets the honors.

[-] Parsani@hexbear.net 16 points 3 days ago

They will be crowned "the most online" and then promptly banned

[-] Commiejones@hexbear.net 14 points 3 days ago

Thank you to the administrators for their hard work. Its not easy to select a good update time when my sleep patterns fluctuate 2-3 hours on either end (depending on how good the current game I am playing is) but you seem to have found the sweet spot.

[-] dustbunnies@hexbear.net 8 points 3 days ago

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 explanationthat 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 playyou 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 (!!! ๐Ÿคฉ) and I've gotten so much entertainment mileage out of that dollar.

phone/touchscreen interface thoughtsI 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 ๐Ÿ˜… I would be late to everything and never get anything done.


๐Ÿค” 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

[-] Chronicon@hexbear.net 2 points 3 days ago

timeguessr also very fun if you don't like puzzles

[-] Alaskaball@hexbear.net 6 points 3 days ago

Oh damn I just noticed this a bit before the site goes down.

The hell am I gonna do for a whole hour? Work?

[-] Alaskaball@hexbear.net 3 points 3 days ago

It's the 24 hour mark and are we still live? Or did we already do the thing?

    Automatically remove tracking parameters from URLs

    Fix bug when commenting in local-only community

    Fixing peertube and ordinary video embeds

These are great updates! duck-dance

[-] kristina@hexbear.net 12 points 4 days ago

The tankie tanuki update

[-] Spike@hexbear.net 16 points 3 days ago

What do I do at work instead???

[-] PorkrollPosadist@hexbear.net 14 points 3 days ago

Shitting without hexbear sicko-no

[-] abc@hexbear.net 16 points 4 days ago

I KNOW IT WAS UPDATED LESS THAN A MONTH AGO BUT...

garcia-cock-shotty UPDATE THE WARRANT CANARY OR ELSE I WILL CRY!!!!

[-] bigboopballs@hexbear.net 13 points 3 days ago

New content patch kirby-jammin

[-] LaGG_3@hexbear.net 20 points 4 days ago

This is punishment for all the amerikkka-claps having a holiday weekend for living in amerikkka

[-] very_poggers_gay@hexbear.net 7 points 3 days ago

Iโ€™m gonna be eating a birthday burger with my partner around that time jerma-burger

[-] dustbunnies@hexbear.net 5 points 3 days ago

is it only the date of consumption that makes it a Birthday Burger, or is there a special recipe or topping composition?

[-] hotcouchguy@hexbear.net 5 points 3 days ago

It's the birthday cake bun

Back to lemmy.ml and lemmygrad.ml, for 1 hour

I can't believe this... I won't be able to post for an hour... wtf...

[-] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 16 points 4 days ago
[-] Parsani@hexbear.net 14 points 4 days ago

Smh, people are missing the point. The admins have given us our blue MAGA activation code. You know what to do.

[-] Rojo27@hexbear.net 14 points 4 days ago

This is it. The first shot of the Christmas Wars. Steel yourselves comrades. Never log offlenin-tea

[-] cmhickman358@hexbear.net 12 points 4 days ago

SpoilerBut in all seriousness thanks to all the admin team for everything you all do!

[-] SoyViking@hexbear.net 13 points 4 days ago

Hexbear down on December 1st

A true Christmas miracle

[-] thelastaxolotl@hexbear.net 11 points 4 days ago

hexbear-retroqin-shi-huangdi-fireball

Unlimited Downtime on the Bear site

[-] Redcuban1959@hexbear.net 11 points 4 days ago
[-] Hermes@hexbear.net 3 points 3 days ago

Hello everyone :)

[-] Dessa@hexbear.net 11 points 4 days ago

Booooooooo! Permanent uptime now!

[-] BioWarfarePosadist@hexbear.net 8 points 4 days ago

Deep State will be taking over I see. Yes, yes all according to keikaku.

[-] makotech222_a@hexbear.net 2 points 3 days ago

Hi All,

we should be back online now. Upgrade was smooth. Enjoy the new changes! Note, we still have next.hexbear.net, but it seems like sunaurus has stopped developing it. So, it is likely that the next major lemmy update will break it, and we will take it down at that time.

Also, I've created myself an admin account just for helping with upgrade processes.

this post was submitted on 30 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.

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.

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