Hey sorry if this info is posted somewhere or if this is the wrong place to ask this. I don't have a hexbear account but I pretty much spend all my time here. I told my partner they should sign up for an account on hexbear, and they were just curious how long it takes to be approved 👀

I was joke banned from chapotraphouse comm recently (which was funny and I am not upset about in any capacity) and today I went looking to make a post and realized it wasn't in my feed. Lo and behold the joke temp ban actually unsubbed me from the comm. Easy fix but I didn't notice and it doesn't really tell you.

Anyway if anyone gets joke banned or temp banned from a comm just remember to resub when your ban is up so you can resume lurking and posting. I did not know it worked this way so figured others should know too.

example: selecting "kelly" is a needless chore, because you have to sift through a bunch of kelly emojis to find the one named kelly. similar things happen with "slammer" and several others.

the canonical name of an emoji should always have precedence over keywords in the picker

can anyone else verify

This would fall under all pr is good pr right? Cant click on it and its sooo frustrating

The emoji picker is incredibly slow for me when it comes to previews. Can I cache all the emojis so it becomes useable?

Anyone have suggestions for a good mobile Lemmy app? Or do people generally just use their browser?

I'm using boost right now and its fine except that it shows usernames instead of display names so I can't see anyone's pronouns

Hello users of hexbear, we have started discussions with an admin of lemmy.ca regarding potential refederation. Lemmy.ca had added hexbear to their blocklist about a year ago: https://lemmy.ca/post/3326347

With the recent changes in lemmy features as well as a maturing fediverse the mods/admins of hexbear and lemmy.ca are open to trying again, but before we put lemmy.ca on our allow-list we wanted to open up discussion and voting to the users of hexbear.

This vote will be binding with regard to adding lemmy.ca to our allow-list. In addition, the idea of including sh.itjust.works in this discussion was raised but was voted down by a majority of mods from inclusion.

https://lemmy.ca/c/canada and https://lemmy.ca/c/pcgaming are the instance's top two communities but there are a few other small, niche communities. A community that may be removed from hexbear is the https://lemmy.ca/c/fediverselore so please indicate your opinion on this community if you have one.

As usual please use

if you would like lemmy.ca to be added to our allow-list

if you would like lemmy.ca to not be added to our allow-list

We will leave this post unlocked for a few days before making the decision, thank you. Users may also use this post for a general discussion on federation including naming instances for federation/defederation or feedback for the hexbear admin/mod team.

I noticed while creating a new post that if I provide a Thumbnail URL with an external (not hexbear.net) URL, then the original image gets used when viewing the post. I first noticed it on this post where I added a youtube thumbnail icon (check it in the browser console).

I tried researching if there's a bug for this in upstream Lemmy:

This one seems like it would have fixed it: LemmyNet/lemmy-ui: Update post listing to prefer local image when available

And see also this: LemmyNet/lemmy: Add initial skeleton of image proxy improvements for feedback

Unfortunately I'm not that familiar with the Lemmy codebase, but how possible would it be to proxy+cache thumbnails? I don't quite mean store it permanently in the database, just proxy the source image and cache it for performance reasons. Otherwise, maybe we should disable the thumbnail URL for now until this support is added upstream?

Take for example my banner image. On mobile you can see Isabelline standing at the opening of whatever the fuck that is, looks great. Roughly a 16:9 window, maybe 1.85:

On desktop she is cut out scope asspect ratio looks awful. Mods pls

502 errors, 502 errors everywhere

I understand that the beautiful french Sandy Bridge hexbear server is very busy and hexbear does not want spam. But I gotta post!!!

It's just my inbox hexbear, promise I am not doing spam... I just gotta reply to 40+ messages...

I think it would be really really really really funny

Canvas is starting in 4 days from time of post on the 12th of July. looks like they did it last year, too (see thumbnail).

i can't find any discussion on it on Hexbear, so i'm assuming this hasn't been properly discussed before. i think it would be really cool imo and we could do what was happening on PixelCanvas but w/ more Hexbear stuff ig

It would be like the dunk tank but without rule 8. People don't have to subscribe to it. I will continue not posting to it, but you can feel free to make me a mod. I will be there like an absent father.

Also I don't really know where this post should go, I guess we got rid of the user union at some point.

I just went to enable them only to realize they've been enabled this whole time. I only recently got email working on my website after six months of troubleshooting, so I know the struggle. Do they work on lemmy-ui?

The bot creation for Lemmy seems easy. I just dont know how to proceed from there.

This is clearly the superior way to post