It seems to really have alienated a number of people and prevented them from posting. This is a great shame because I felt that hexbears’s momentum and place of online leftism was really starting to shine in the days after the election. This is the most important time for there to be an alternative on the left and we’re wasting it, with what appears to be the start of another struggle session caused by mods unilaterally deciding things.
I don’t really have a solution or more to say, more just this dump of feelings
Yeah it has been slow. Sucks. Genuinely are little concerned that we’ve reached a fulcrum, and without further action we’re about to see the spiral of slower boards–>fewer people bothering to check Hexbear–>even slower boards–>new people who stumble upon HB who would otherwise have joined now just see it as kind of slow and empty like lemmygrad–>death
Yes some real change needs to be made. I think anyone who has the time and is concerned about the sites future should apply to be a mod (with the newest mod drive) to try and do a lib and change the system from within.
I think we were bound to get a lull after the election madness and the multiple-month crescendo of bullshit. people are partly recovering from that
I firmly believe with zero evidence that post-election weariness and anger caused the struggle session. Tensions were high.