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Yesterday I was informed by the head mod that "this site has never prioritized growth" and I was like that's news to me I remember people actively adding HB watermarks to memes to spread on
, and everyone was encouraged to spread the word about HB to the r/CTH diaspora.
Wasn’t that a big point of criticism leveled at the Admins during the nascent days of chapo.chat, that they failed to retain or being back even even a tenth of r/cth’s userbase? To say, ‘this site has never prioritized growth’ is kind of an affront to everyone who saw this site as the lifeboat that would retain the massive community that was fostered on reddit
I mean, they also banned a lot of that early "lifeboat" userbase, and also changed the entire name of the site specifically because they didn't want to be associated with the old subreddit; or the podcast anymore.
HB mods/admins have always been more interested in making the site their personal bonsai-tree project over anything else really.
And If I’m being honest, I don’t like that they went in that direction but it is what it is