https://twitter.com/RodericDay/status/1681686962661470210

  • Awoo [she/her]
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    1 year ago

    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.