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.
If a community's moderators don't want to use megathreads any longer to encourage community posting that is fine with me, but if a mod asks for a site pin we'll do so.
As I said, I don't know if it's a problem with the site per-se or if it's just a general human community building problem, just that maybe we (collectively as a community) need to work harder to ensure that everyone is on the same page. It's also easy for me to yap about this as someone who, like, maybe makes a handful of posts every 2 weeks or so and doesn't make any use out of the mega's.
That said, the stuff I saw elsewhere about implementing a site portal sounds good.
I know this job has been pretty thankless, and people tend to forget that a lot of the time we're all just trying to do what we can with what we have, so for my part lemme just say thanks for everything so far