Hexbear users don't tend to link to Hexbear as a source, instead using it as a place to collect other sources to use. This was caused by the site archiving of posts older than 1 month making it unreliable to link here from elsewhere. Everyone built up a culture of finding other links to use that aren't Hexbear instead. I myself was linking to Hexbear frequently prior to the archiving.
Now that archiving is no longer occurring a priority for the site team ought to try and work out how to repair this unintended culture created by the previous conditions. I suspect that because this culture has been created it also results in content not being posted that would also get linked to, creating a feedback loop. A lot of content worth linking to used to get posted, and that decreased when archiving made it not worth posting things people would link to anymore.
Hexbear users don't tend to link to Hexbear as a source, instead using it as a place to collect other sources to use. This was caused by the site archiving of posts older than 1 month making it unreliable to link here from elsewhere. Everyone built up a culture of finding other links to use that aren't Hexbear instead. I myself was linking to Hexbear frequently prior to the archiving.
Now that archiving is no longer occurring a priority for the site team ought to try and work out how to repair this unintended culture created by the previous conditions. I suspect that because this culture has been created it also results in content not being posted that would also get linked to, creating a feedback loop. A lot of content worth linking to used to get posted, and that decreased when archiving made it not worth posting things people would link to anymore.