Hi folks.

A while back, we announced our intention to move Hexbear back to Lemmy. This post will serve as our first transparency report on our progress.

Whilst it has unfortunately been quite slow, we have a roadmap of features to port over and we're happy to share that the first big feature was merged upstream last week - a massive shout out to @makotech222 , who ported over our modlog filters. PR for those curious here.

Other features merged upstream include comment rate limits and visual improvements to post listings.

In addition to the work already completed, we have spent some time planning and designing other features we plan to port over. This is sometimes more difficult than it sounds; we need to implement them in such a way that upstream can merge them, and this often requires a very different approach to the one implemented in the current Hexbear fork. Example features that we have spent some time planning are pronoun tags and custom emotes.

Finally, we have members on the team who've been figuring out how we'll migrate our database to Lemmy's schema as it has diverged a lot. Special thanks to @Quimby and @footfaults for their work here.

We still have a lot of work ahead of us so please, if you are interested in helping us, reach out to CARCOSA (@carc0sa:chapo.chat on Matrix) or Layla (@layla:chapo.chat on Matrix) to get started. The bigger our team is of people motivated to get this over the line the better!

That's all for today. We hope this was useful and answered some of your questions. If you have more, some of the team will be in the comments for a while so please feel free to ask.

Thanks, and viva la Hexbear!