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Hi everyone,
Since our initial rebranding, we've received a lot of complaints from many different users about our new name. Some have said that the process wasn't democratic, others liked the "to our roots" nature of Chapo.Chat, and other still just thought the name wasn't great. After weeks of deliberation, the admin team has decided to revise our rebranding into something that alleviates all of these issues. Everyone, Welcome to Hexambear.
Addressing your concerns with a new brand
- "The process wasn't democratic. There was no input from the users."
With this new name, taking input from our userbase was a top priority. Although initially a throwaway gag, we realized the poll to name Lady Hexbear herself gave us valuable input into how the users felt about the direction of the rebranding. "Amber" was a top-voted and recurring submission into the poll, and the signal couldn't have been clearer. Although we're not dropping Hexbear entirely, we think combining the two names is a healthy compromise between what the core team and yall want.
- "Dropping the Chapo branding will hamper name recognition. No previous CTH users will come to the site after a rename."
Although we initially disagreed with this argument, the facts are clear. After an entire week without a single new user, it's clear something changed that drew users away from the site. We believe Hexambear drops the negative connotations of the CTH pod while still retaining that name recognition and giving a subtle nod to our humble roots as a subreddit.
- "I don't like the name Hexbear."
It's hard to gauge whether people will like something new. After the initial name announcement, the name Hexbear became especially polarizing - some people loved it, and others despised it. After weeks of debate, graphing, and even some limited focus groups, we've discovered Hexambear "crosses the aisle" between these two groups, and even could bring in more newer, less radicalized and "online" users. By combining both the simplicity of Hexbear and the Chapo roots of Amber, we believe this name will please everyone already here. We've also discovered that, by "humanizing" our branding with a common name, "Hexambear" can also broaden the reach of our current site to more than just those on the left.
We're excited for all of the new opportunities with this newer, revised, branding. Although we can't wait to move forward, we're announcing this in advance because this will be a hard change. As an anti-spam measure, most ISPs don't allow a single entitity to set up more than one redirect per year. As we already have one that sends chapo.chat URLs to here, we are forced to completely change the URL, which will happen on April 7th. So set your calendars, change your bookmarks, remember your passwords, and welcome to the new Hexambear!!
We appreciate your feedback. We did have an April Fools’ Day joke planned but will not be moving forward with it due to overwhelming sentiment
Here at Hexambear, while we hold democracy as a core value here and while we hold the works of Dr. Orwell in very high regard, there are currently no plans in the works for institute moderator elections. If you would like to understand our reasoning, please go on Amazon and purchase the top 3 results for “George Orwell”
I think that this is the best compromise. People will complain no matter what so I'm glad we could reach something that will make most people happy.
Really proud of the mods for reaching across the aisle on this one!
That was one of our main goals here. I'm so glad you appreciate the change!
We at Hexbear get things done! Not like Bernie Sanders, who can’t even pass a $15 minimum wage in Vermont. The benefits at Hexbear are great. Yeah, posting can be repetitive, but it’s all in a days work.
-HexbearFCcomrade
:matt-jokerfied: "soon... soon you're all coming crawling back to me. You would not live with the name change and where would that bring you? Back to me"
It was a real jump scare moment when I looked up and saw it
Yeah I'm a leftist, yeah I'm a capitalist. We exist. It's called neoliberalism, okay? 🌐
Through cocaine, all things are possible. Case in point: any Kiss album from 1980 onward. Or before 1980, for that matter.
At Hexbear FC, it’s ok to be a rad lib. Many of my colleagues are rad libs and succdems and we are a great team. We are proactively inclusive. We don’t need a union to get in the way of our work family.
-HexbearFCcomrade
This is literally stalinism, I’m now denouncing my marxist ways and will work for consulting firm.
If this site is going to be Amber branded we better start saying lots of slurs.
I'll throw something together real fast. Probably gonna have aliens in it since I'm currently watching Aliens.
Okay that’s cool and all, but what about hexarmbear? Bear with 6 arms can combat revisionism at least 3 times better