I thought it was kinda nice not having 40% of my browsing real estate taken up by sticky posts I'm never gonna read. I will miss this golden era.

i just watched you eat it back up like a chiahuahua

you do not need to do anything

i am so sorry for the confusion, honestly the whole situation is confusing.

Years ago when we changed to hexbear.net an admin bought the domain name from a domain registrar.

That admin had things come up and wasn't able to be as active or available.

A small issue with paying for the domain name for the year 2025 happened and the payment was 1 day late.

The domain registrar (digital landlord) took the payment and also put the domain "hexbear.net" up for auction pointing to policy that says if you are late on payment they can auction your domain name.

The admin who owns the domain escalated the issue to the top level up support for the domain registrar. During that time we tried a technical route for moving the domain name to a new registrar, which we did not expect to work. The technical route had a 5 day delay on finding out if it worked or not, during that time is when we set up the vote for what name the community would want in the event we lost hexbear.net

At this moment we still do not know if we have it or not so we are continuing with moving towards hexbear.chat but think that we might have mitigated the worst case scenario with a malicious person getting the hexbear.net domain through the aforementioned technical route.

We are currently working on an updated post to give all the info we have at this time.

I also have no idea what this means lol

I’m j_k, so I was the highest authentic bidder? That could’ve bit me in the ass lol

It doesn't seem like that's what happened here, considering the auction ended prematurely and the transfer was initiated days ago judging by the whois history

but then also carcosa said "we are still going forward with hexbear.chat" below so who knows wtf the status is

I am totally lost now lol. I think mods just not updating on everything for the moment is probably smart. Too confusing to try to keep up. Just tell me in a couple days what I gotta do and then make a pamphlet about it later called "What Was to be Done"

A shrewd bean merchant

I think right now literally nobody is sure. We might be moving to hexbear.chat, or we might be staying as hexbear.net.

Lost track of access to the domain and it was set to expire. Cryptobro from "Hex Coin" threatened to take it over (or was that a bit? Nobody knows) plus some anarkiddies and others threatened to buy the domain when it lapsed. We appealed to the registrar to end the auction (it was going to go for over $2,000 as a bidding war ensued).

And now nobody is sure what's happening.

maybe nothing

https://www.whois.com/whois/hexbear.net

https://www.sav.com/auctions/details/7073489/hexbear.net

yes and no, she helped to escalate the problem to upper levels of support that basically told us, you missed payment by 1 day and the domain name is on auction, nothing we can do.

there was a technical route that we tried in order to transfer the hexbear domain name from one registrar (digital landlord) to another. we didn't expect it to work and based on the websites appears to have worked?

we are still going forward with hexbear.chat but it may help to mitigate the potential problems of a malicious entity obtaining the domain name

    
   Domain Name: HEXBEAR.NET
   Registry Domain ID: 2584175083_DOMAIN_NET-VRSN
   Registrar WHOIS Server: whois.porkbun.com
   Registrar URL: http://porkbun.com/
   Updated Date: 2025-02-19T05:16:07Z
   Creation Date: 2021-01-12T00:35:22Z'''

  

Hexbear.net is now registered on porkbun instead of Sav which indicates that it is now under control of the Hexbear admins.

Basically it looks like we won and are keeping the old domain. Can't be absolutely certain that there isn't some other bullshittery that Sav could pull as a parting shot so it's not quite time to celebrate yet.

deleting your cookies for hexbear.net will accomplish the same thing, you do not need to delete your account

no, the signing out happens automatically on their end. you don't have to do anything, just don't go to hexbear.net

It should show a blank or 404 page, that part is intended. I just needed a placeholder URL that will not be redirected to chapo.chat that people can load in order to access FF mobile's "Clear cookies and site data" button, since they don't have a UI to do it any other way without first loading the site in question.

Not that I know of. The domain switcheroo should be the easy part, getting our house in order organizationally so that this can't happen again will be a longer process.

Not sure what you mean by a "javascript redirect". What I've been told is the plan is to set up permanent 301 redirects at the nginx level that will then be cached. But if there's a more sophisticated way of doing it with js I'm all ears.