chachabros.... we're so back 
this post was submitted on 11 Feb 2025
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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
I made an alt on lemmygrad 
If we switch to a different domain, will all the posts on here be lost?
I have a lot of books recs saved 
True Hexbear Fedayeen have hexbear hard coded in their hosts file and are currently enjoying their 
On OSX/Linux just add 37.187.73.130 hexbear.net to the bottom of /etc/hosts and you'll get your back.
On Windows its at C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts
On Phones it's much harder to describe than a single line so all your are lost.
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damn owned, this is just like how everyone in the USSR had to share the same toothbrush
bro what the fuck did i log into
edit: ok got images working
edit2: kinda, some emojis are still broken
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Thanks for the information, but no apology necessary. It’s not your fault someone decided to be flaky and a dick.
Lmao, good thing I was still using the same chapo.chat bookmark from 5 years ago 😎
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5 years?!?!?!?!
The important question here is what the taglines which reference this event will be
Well I guess this is one way to get the feds to never notice us.
But seriously, is there a lifeboat active in case this kind of thing happens again? Thankfully I'm friends with some users online but not every poster is. I remember for the old subreddit we did a discord life boat weeks in advance.
aaaaaaannnnnnnd, it's gone
enjoyed seeing the emojis while it lasted, back to visit hexbear.net
It's even a worse bit than when you banned Bureaucrat
today's megathread looks funny
Make sure to invalidate all the jwt tokens. Whoever buys the domain might be able to grab them from people still visiting the old site
Letting the url expire for a bit wasn’t okay
If Hexbear were a beer
So how are we going to contact everyone that's still using the old domain and has no idea what's happening? There are people that rely on this website for funds to survive in Palestine, and we have homeless users and users struggling to make rent that also rely on us. It would be terrible if they just thought that we dropped off of the face of the Earth and were left stranded.
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Incredible new chapter to the hexbear saga. What can you do but laugh
Also PSA: replacing "hexbear.net" with "chapo.chat" appears to make links work again, albeit with some formatting errors.
refederate with a new domain so everyone that has you blocked can see you were right about everything all along.