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
Please reply to this comment with name suggestions in the event we have to change from hexbear.net
Hexbear.chat
Yeah I'd rather the site stay hexbear. Almost any tld is fine.
dialectics
Some has already taken it!
Created: 2025-02-11 21:24:22 UTCYeah, think an issue with posting names is that it makes it really easy to snipe them
The two I’ve posted, hexbear.zone and hexbear.net.cn I’m already squatting on now
Spending hundreds of dollars on domain registrations to own the tankies
It was taken by one of us on the mod team, so it's safe.
Actually not bad
FINALLY! Finally it is time for hereshowberniecanstill.win
Do we not have the other half of the meme? Something we should rectify on the new raebxeh.net
hexbear.zone
I have a friend who is willing to help us get hexbear.su. I don't have a Russian passport, so the stability will be an issue, but we could get it for the bit. Should I pursue this?
Never mind, I didn't realize that an Amerikkkan passport works for .su
I think the best option is some variation of hexbear as opposed to a whole new name. The only problem I could see from that is if whoever ends up buying the original domain redirects it to something horrible. Probably wouldn't want a similar domain name in that instance.
communismwill.win
hexbear.xyz is a cheap stopgap. If we prefer to take the opportunity to change the name, a number of more explicitly communist domains are available, such as red.forum joke options: thebigcommunism.builders chinese.bot
IMO, the thing I like about chapo.chat and hexbear is that they're not explicitly communist themed.
hexbear.red
Chapo.chat
this domain name has the same issue that caused the hexbear.net outage
shitbird.com
donothing.win
beanis.chat
I don't have a specific rec, just want to share a couple thoughts.
I like the idea of an .su domain, but that's not so important, if it wasn't something like .su then I like the idea of .lgbt. My more crucial point is that I personally want to avoid chapo related names. I've never listened to the podcast and I joined this site almost a year ago. I feel like I'm not one of the only post-chapo people, and I think that the name of the site and its communities should refect its growth beyond a subreddit. Emojis and such are fine, but I don't feel like any sort of return or reference is needed. Essentially a vote against chapo.(whatever) plus reasoning.
I think it would be least friction to just keep the name and change the TLD.
But if not:
stacking.rocks
Tankie.HK
Hexbear2.net
tankie.cn or tankie.su
chapo dot chat
Beanis.net
Redirects to bluebear.ltd, is this some hexbearian's site?
Hmm. Hexbeanis.net?
bean.is
hexbear.zone
Hexbear.lgbt
Hasanabifan.site
ClownBeanis dot Fart
Real answer: lmao-even.lol
That way source code packages in local Git can be placed under the namespace "lol.lmao-even," which would also be our reverse-DNS lookup domain.
hexbear.social
shrekland.net
Hexbear dot io is a bitcoin website btw.
exbear.net septbear.chat hexchap.chat
We should steal hexbear.ntt from NTT
dopeassbear.net
ursusfront
hexbear.net.cn
chapoverse.net
Hear me out... icosahedronbear.net