Please don't look for posts from /u/hardtimes without a severe CW for scat and who knows what else at this point.
I think it's worth considering what kind of damage trolls, wreckers, and edgelords in general can do with such images in the future. @Frank@hexbear.net may have been right in that struggle session today; such open image posting may be a mistake.
they're going to have to restrict signups I think until they get it fixed
Honestly, somewhat restricted signups are pretty much always a good idea. Reduces bot spam (which we actually have had in the past) and stifles (or at least slows) wreckers
I think so too, I know a lot of people go "it harms growth!!!!" but tbh if you're so put off by having to write like 3 sentences why you should be able to use the site I dont want you here anyways
Like, what growth? Site's fine. We don't need to be as big as reddit
i want literally every trans person in the globe here tho
Maybe an invite system?
exactly, from my understanding hexbear hasn't grown that much the last couple years anyways
Most of our account growth is just the same posters making alts, and wreckers that we've banned. I wonder what the actual number of unbanned user accounts is.
honestly I only even found out about this site like 6 months ago because of the second thought ama, and only made an account a month ago, there's almost 0 advertising of it across the internet I'm not surprised there hasn't been growth (not a bad thing)
We have a cozy little thing going
We've tried a few times to expand the community but it never really ends very well - like when we invited /r/vegancirclejerk refugees and ended up banning almost all of them in a week for circlejerking too much.
we were having such bad site performance issues shortly before that AMA that we barely promoted it out of concern on the part of some admins it might crash the site
maybe I have bad
but I find site lore like this so interesting lol
well, welcome to the site. Just don't upload poop pics or become an unhinged liberal or something lol
Thank you! I'm already a liberal (and in your walls)
only 6k banned users soooo 17k unbanned?
I thinks it's a good compromise between the exposure we get from federation which will drive growth, against writing three sentences to get in.