Hello users of Hexbear, there have been many changes and some drama the past few months.
The recent changes we've been making have been an attempt to create a more safe and welcoming environment for many demographics that have been overlooked in the past.
For any of our comrades that have been unintentionally hurt in this process, we apologise and hope to find a solution that accommodates as many people as possible while still meeting the needs of the marginalised groups who need a space like this the most.
The intent of this post is to provide a space for all users to air grievances with regard to the site. As well as provide suggestions for specific things that could be changed to address your grievance. Comments insulting the mod team or those without a specific means to address your problem may be removed. No commenter will be sitebanned, unless it clearly breaks the code of conduct.
i do feel like it's getting slower, which makes my ADHD-addled ass sad
I don't have an issue with community megathreads at all, but i think the frontpage only shows x amount of posts total no matter what, so when the frontpage is populated with 8 sitewide featured posts, the default sorting ('hot' for me) seems much less effective and doesn't show you a big range of content.
We almost need a top-of-page link/heading to "Featured", next to the "Communities" one, that has a seperate page of all current featured posts. seems like a bit of work or an upstream lemmy change for dessalines, though
I don't really have an issue with the community mega threads in general, I think I mentioned it because when I log on, it's basically half the front page which might be hiding activity overall. But yeah, there's ways I could improve my experience. I think I just don't stay on long enough to actually figure it out.