Provided to YouTube by RCA Records LabelLast Nite · The StrokesIs This It℗ 2001 The StrokesReleased on: 2001-07-30Unknown, Mixing Engineer, Producer: Gordon...

Yesterday was intense for everyone. Some quick updates as of last night:

  • A large amount of the sitemod team has stepped away from the project. Other comrades from the community have volunteered to pitch in and been modded.
  • Some core devs also stepped away from the project. For the time being, you should not expect any further development of new features or bug fixes as we reassess our capacity.
  • Main has been locked. No immediate plans to unlock.
  • Registration is closed and will remain so for the time being.

We 100% understand and support everyone who left yesterday and are also looking forward to the next stage of Hexbear.

We're probably not going to be making any additional announcements or formal communication until after the weekend at the earliest. Thanks.

    • Awoo [she/her]5•3 years ago

      The other side of this is user expectations. The site hasn't got limitless resources and the team isn't paid to work on it fulltime despite the fact being that they clearly are working on it fulltime.

      User expectations need to be readdressed, probably with some change to site branding, in order to adequately communicate to users that this is a project, that it is developing. Good but likely to have various flaws and kinks to work out through further work. Other major project have the sense to use the "beta" tag for this, Hexbear probably needs to consider something like that in order to manage/communicate that people set their expectations at the appropriate level.