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Complaints about Hexbear in Hexbear defederation posts often talk about emoji size. Even complaints about PPB are usually talking about how big it is. And I mean it's true, that emoji, among others, is massive on non-Hexbear instances.

on Hexbear: ppb on hexbear

on other instances: ppb on other instances

Obviously PPB and the rest of our culture is cool and good, but it is silly to be defederated because of an emoji scaling bug. Surely we can find cooler reasons to be defederated

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[–] [email protected] 85 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I agree its unfair other instances get better versions of our emojis.

We should increase the size here too.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 years ago (2 children)

We used to be able to use markup to make the emojis bigger, plus you could italicized them. I swear to god I'm not just hallucinating this, it was funny as hell

[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 years ago

# :sicko-yes:

Used to large adult sonify emojis

[–] [email protected] 65 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The varying emoji size and dimensions can make it really difficult to read posts, as an outsider. I also think the problem might be exacerbated by different clients. Jerboa for instance really does not like y'all.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 2 years ago

Yeah I'd like to be able to assume my comments look like I expect them to, hope this gets fixed

[–] [email protected] 54 points 2 years ago (5 children)

The gigantic ppb is hilarious. Wait how does dprk-soldier scale?

[–] [email protected] 37 points 2 years ago

server shits itself

[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 49 points 2 years ago (1 children)

DPKR Supersoldier.

When it was first uploaded it was so big not only did the image get messed up it took down the whole site for like a day.

data-laughing

[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 years ago (2 children)

We didn't have images or embedding for like a good week after while the issue was fixed. IIRC the person responsible immediately confessed and wasn't punished for it, but I don't remember who it was.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 years ago

It was hilarious. The entire community would have revolted if they got punished.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago

Their last post.

Permanently Deleted • the staff told me to post one! the blood is off my hands

michael-laugh

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 years ago

It's funny when you don't need to deal with it, sure, but even as a Hexbear native it's honestly really annoying cause you can't read shit

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago

an easy way to tell is to right click an image and open it in a new tab, that will show the original image size that hexbear downscales to each comment

[–] [email protected] 50 points 2 years ago

"Make it bigger"

[–] [email protected] 40 points 2 years ago

The fact fidel-balling is so big is super cool though. Conflicted.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 2 years ago

I'd like to have another massive emoji, but this one would be a giant Garfield drinking coffee out of a mug that says "I HATE MONDAYS". Surely people wouldn't take issue with that, right? Who do we need to talk to to make this happen?

[–] [email protected] 37 points 2 years ago
[–] [email protected] 31 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

calling for a total and complete shutdown of emojis leaving hexbear until our instance's representatives can figure out what the hell is going on

[–] [email protected] 29 points 2 years ago

You talk shit as a clueless lib you get a sun sized PPB

[–] [email protected] 29 points 2 years ago

To be fair, it is really funny

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 years ago
[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 years ago

It's beautiful! chefs-kiss

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 years ago

I hadn't seen that yet and that ppb looks absolutely amazing at that size.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 years ago (1 children)

its worth the defederation because it is just extremely funny that the other ppb emojis don't show up that large

PIGPOOPBALLS

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago

oh wait is

logo

still fucked lol

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I agree that the scaling is an issue that is annoying people, although I do think it's an excuse rather than a real reason behind defederation.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago
[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago

Our emojahideen are too brave to be contained