Hello users of Hexbear, there have been many changes and some drama the past few months.
The recent changes we've been making have been an attempt to create a more safe and welcoming environment for many demographics that have been overlooked in the past.
For any of our comrades that have been unintentionally hurt in this process, we apologise and hope to find a solution that accommodates as many people as possible while still meeting the needs of the marginalised groups who need a space like this the most.
The intent of this post is to provide a space for all users to air grievances with regard to the site. As well as provide suggestions for specific things that could be changed to address your grievance. Comments insulting the mod team or those without a specific means to address your problem may be removed. No commenter will be sitebanned, unless it clearly breaks the code of conduct.
~~What's annoying about them? I hardly notice them myself~~
Self Crit: my experience has nothing to do with the validity of others' experiences. Nobody has to explain to me why they prices things differently.
It's really distracting when I'm trying to read something and there is a bunch of stuff moving around on screen. I have to block every gif avatar with Ublock.
I also block the gif emotes too.
Rereading my comment I see that it's pretty dismissive of users with different sensory processing types. I'm going to edit it
It's all good! I thought it was an okay question.
I don't love the emotes but neither do I hate them. because they tend to get all clumped together in a jokey sub thread so easy to ignore. The avis are mixed in with blocks of text in a way that makes them really difficult to scroll off screen. I don't kniow why I never thought of using ublock earlier, I tried much more ellaboiarte solutions previously.
Well that's nice of you to fix it. :) but how will you learn if you don't ask? I'm glad someone else answered you. This whole "it's not my job to educate others" thing can get to be a bit overblown sometimes. Like it's not anyone's job to post here on any topic.
Obviously lots of people are feeling the same way as you do, because otherwise animations would never be used.
I wouldn't really want animations to be banned, because people enjoy them so much. And I just figured out out to use ublock on them, that'll work fine probably.