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We’re monitoring this thread. Most of the conversation has been fine so far but please remember to keep it chill so we don’t have to lock it.

One thing: Please remember to use content warnings for possibly triggering content. On that note, @HodgePodge can you CW this post for discussion of SA and sexual violence? Thanks.

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Have the scale issues been solved?

Upstream have implemented their own optimizations since we forked, but it’s unclear how they compare to ours and if scale issues are solved.

Does this mean we’ll get all the customisation features?

Not sure what you mean, do you mean user avatars etc? Because if so, yes.

And does it mean we’ll get embedded images?

(Tentative) Yes. I don’t want to commit to anything, we still have a lot of work to do and this may change.

Agreed on the community customization part. It’s one of the more exciting features implemented upstream.

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For what it’s worth, the post is always pinned to the top of !news@hexbear.net, even if it’s not featured site-wide. We can only feature two posts at a time, so it can’t always be up there.

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As @Dirt_Owl says, give us time. Someone on the team is talking to Chamomile. Timezones and availability limit how fast we can respond to things like this (we are all volunteers with our own lives outside the site) but we’re working on it.

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That’s cool and all but where can I buy some crypto?

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Hi everyone, just a reminder to assume good faith when talking to each other. We’re all more willing to learn and compromise when we’re kind to each other - we’re among comrades after all.

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You all need to watch your tone and speak to each other with respect. Thread locked.

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We do plan on runing an official Hexbear Mastodon instance, the only reason it hasn’t been set up just yet is because we want to move our infrastructure around first, and I don’t expect that to happen for another couple months at least.

The more Hexbear-adjacent Mastodon instances the better, so I’m all for this to remain an unofficial thing you host. But if you want it to become something official we help host and fund, feel free to reach out.

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Adding this to our roadmap for the new fork, thanks.

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