this post was submitted on 08 Jul 2024
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[–] egg1918@hexbear.net 55 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Will never get tired of this post

[–] HamManBad@hexbear.net 26 points 1 year ago (3 children)

What was the origin of the joke? I swear I was there for it, I just can't remember why they did it

[–] erik@hexbear.net 51 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

On the old Chapo subreddit, the sub was made private for like a day or something as a bit. A very angry person made a lengthy text post that was titled something like "Closing the Sub as a Bit Was NOT Ok"

[–] HamManBad@hexbear.net 32 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah that's what I remember, the part I was missing was from someone else who commented that they did it because they reached 42069 or 69420 members. I mean I knew it was something ridiculous but I forgot it was THAT ridiculous. Those were the days

[–] erik@hexbear.net 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, that place still had a bit of the reddit stench on it, but its heyday was probably the most active I was on that web-site. So many great posters.

[–] NapoleonBlownApart@hexbear.net 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I miss aspects of it sometimes, but the community here is so much better.

[–] PM_ME_YOUR_FOUCAULTS@hexbear.net 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

We purged all the transphobes, patsocs, succdems and stupidpol types

comfy-cool

Yup! Love it!

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[–] QuillcrestFalconer@hexbear.net 22 points 1 year ago

Closing the subreddit at 69,420 subscribers as a joke was not ok

[–] SpanishSpaceAgency@hexbear.net 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

the original subreddit went private at 69420 or 42069 members iirc

[–] HamManBad@hexbear.net 15 points 1 year ago

Haha that's right, thanks

gold-communist

[–] TerminalEncounter@hexbear.net 46 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] BountifulEggnog@hexbear.net 61 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] newmou@hexbear.net 35 points 1 year ago
[–] asante@hexbear.net 30 points 1 year ago

waow so much touch-grass

[–] AOCapitulator@hexbear.net 38 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Was so boring omg I had to actually do my job today

[–] HexbearGPT@hexbear.net 8 points 1 year ago

just spend more time pooping on the clock

i thought it finally got blocked in my office!

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[–] Robert_Kennedy_Jr@hexbear.net 28 points 1 year ago
[–] nat_turner_overdrive@hexbear.net 27 points 1 year ago (2 children)

hexbear went down for the duration of the passage of Beryl over Houston thinking-about-it

[–] culpritus@hexbear.net 12 points 1 year ago

Mother Nature is couping Texas? I want to help.

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[–] Alaskaball@hexbear.net 22 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Forcing me to remember my login credentials every time we take the site down as a joke is not okay either.

I take my one-account Ironman run seriously

[–] NapoleonBlownApart@hexbear.net 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Right? You're an OG! You can't lose that account!

[–] Alaskaball@hexbear.net 12 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I'm gonna delete my account to prove you wrong now

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[–] P1d40n3@hexbear.net 20 points 1 year ago

My whole morning routine was altered. I demand satisfaction, in the form of trials for the site wreckers!

[–] TheOtherwise@hexbear.net 19 points 1 year ago (4 children)

What's the go to place to meetup if the site ever gets taken down? Realized I had no where to turn

[–] Eco@hexbear.net 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

a denny's in pocatello idaho

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[–] radiofreeval@hexbear.net 12 points 1 year ago

Matapacos.dog is the status page, so if the admins are still around that's a place

[–] BountifulEggnog@hexbear.net 9 points 1 year ago

Lemmygrad.ml is where I usually go, not sure if there's another source of news

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[–] BountifulEggnog@hexbear.net 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] DerRedMax@hexbear.net 9 points 1 year ago

In before the lock!

[–] gramxi@hexbear.net 17 points 1 year ago
[–] Luna@hexbear.net 17 points 1 year ago

The bear is back og-hex-bear

[–] Des@hexbear.net 16 points 1 year ago

concentrated cyber attack against french infrastructure following the left's victory

[–] SkingradGuard@hexbear.net 14 points 1 year ago

It was my fault I hackermanned it

[–] thisismyrealname@hexbear.net 10 points 1 year ago
[–] culpritus@hexbear.net 9 points 1 year ago

I just posted a lament on grad, the lathe works!

https://lemmygrad.ml/post/5047371

[–] NapoleonBlownApart@hexbear.net 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (6 children)

I don't know how I feel about this joke. If the person who originally posted it in the /r/cth days was posting in earnest, then picking on them isn't great. I'm sure there are more than a few people who feel that this is their only outlet or source of left wing voices. It just seems weird to kick one of our own for something that isn't chuddy

Not trying to start anything, but I've never seen this brought up.

[–] KobaCumTribute@hexbear.net 20 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I think even at the time the consensus was that the poster was right, and closing the sub was a shitty joke that took away an outlet a lot of people relied on. But now the sub is long gone, the people who ran the sub are long gone, and we're on like ten degrees of ship of theseus shit by now and calling out "closing the site as a joke wasn't ok" every time there's scheduled or unscheduled downtime for whatever reason is divorced from its original intent and is now just a meme form of complaining about downtime. I feel like people say it because it's the rote thing you say after downtime, like cursing someone's ancestors when they sneeze.

Fair. I'm not really trying to advocate for this joke to be banned or whatever.

I just hope that we won't do it to someone else again.

And yes, I think that joke was unfunny. Not just because it hurt someone's feelings. It was just some reddit brained "hehe the sex and weed number" and "let's flex our mod muscles for no good reason".

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[–] BountifulEggnog@hexbear.net 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yea, I agree with you. I haven't seen the reddit post, but this is legitimately my only left/trans support and is incredibly important to me. So I understand why someone would think removing that support, that they or others might rely on isn't funny. But shrug-outta-hecks I don't expect joking about it is going to change, and I'm not trying to be the fun police.

[–] NapoleonBlownApart@hexbear.net 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

That's what I was trying to convey. I'm not trying to police people, but there are real users behind these screens, and we don't know their lives. They could be in an abusive situation, homeless without a safety net, or just plain lonely.

[–] peppersky@hexbear.net 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I agree, especially since it's certainly not like it's a bit that's really funny enough to be doing over and over again for the last like half a decade oe whatever

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[–] PM_ME_YOUR_FOUCAULTS@hexbear.net 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Posting about shutting the site down for a joke for a joke is not okay

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[–] HexbearGPT@hexbear.net 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I almost touched grass. you monsters!

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[–] Sickos@hexbear.net 6 points 1 year ago

We're so back lets-fucking-go

[–] context@hexbear.net 6 points 1 year ago

the arms on @Lumalo@hexbear.net's l's broke off when he joined and they were rattling around in the servers for a few days until they got stuck in the deliberalator and the whole site crashed, the admins had to crawl in and get them out

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