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.
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.