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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.
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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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Yeah apart from the news mega (and even that one is only neutral to me) I do not understand the drive towards megathreads at all. It's just discord but with extra steps and if I wanted to be in a discord, then I'd be in a discord. I wanted a leftist redditclone, that's why I came here.
It's at least mellowed out a bit, but there has been a lot of push towards those in the past. It's extra odd to me because the site seems to have a vibe of wanting to create agitprop and, at the very least, affecting the wider fediverse, but we want to discourage posting for some reason.
I don't think we should get rid of them. Some people like them and they're a part of site culture now, but I never understood the push for them.
IMHO news mega sucks the most of all of them. I would like to see posts about news because then I can more easily know what's happening in the world. News mega obscures a lot and everyone talking in shorthand I don't understand.
And if you visit c/news it is a big collection of old pinned posts. Can only assume that is some kind of joke.
Yes the news mega sucks all the air out of the room and makes it very easy to lose track of current events if hexbear is your primary social media
Well it's one I would trust more to give me a certain kind of perspective, and be selecting better quality links than others, if the others are concerned with general news at all.
But if most of the people who have the wherewithall to do that enjoy posting in the mega style, I don't see much to do about it.
I like journalposting in the mega because honestly I just don't want my venting about my job or living situation to be on the front page of the website. It feels more intimate I guess?