Good news! We now have a way to do age verification via validating a Credit Card for countries with social media age laws.

Thank you to everyone making Hey.Café a great community, we love having you all here!

You can gift PRO to others. https://hey.cafe/conversation/xzdg6z7k88e98xg/did-you-know-you-can-gift-pro-if-you-are-a-fan-of-another-account

We have a tool we built to post to Hey.Café, Mastodon, Blueksy, and even Pixelfed all at the same time, and you can schedule stuff to post. https://laterbear.com

It's now the middle of the week. Time to start preparing for the weekend.

What is your morning drink of choice? Coffee, or maybe tea?

How is your day so far?

We have hit 30,000 accounts! Welcome everyone! Well actually when posting this we are at 30,265....

Great time to join @hey.cafe

Hey.Cafe is the best platform I've encountered, it seems to finally be gaining a significant user base, and if there's one thing we've learned about social networks in the last few years it's that it's always a good idea to have a backup or two.

We are almost at 30 thousand accounts! Get everyone you know to join and hang out with us!

Good morning everyone! ☕

Check out what cafés are hopping at the moment! https://hey.cafe/explore/cafes

We passed 25 thousand accounts! 🥳 You are all amazing!!!

Oh we missed it! We have passed 200,000 conversations made!! 🥳🎉

We pushed a update that broke email sending for a few minutes, if you just signed up and did not get a code just reload the page and open the verify window again and you will get sent the code.

Good news, our email limits rolled over for the day and we had some head room, so we are comfortable with increasing the limit for new accounts to 575 per hour. You all have been amazing and thank you all so much for making this an amazing community!

If you want to post larger photos, have more reaction options, and a badge with some cool shades 😎 you can get PRO in in the settings area. If on the iOS app you need to do so from Safari or from a computer as it can be done in app.

Thanks everyone for joining our ad free, tracking free, and algorithm free social network! We are happy you are all here, and we have so much to do. Plus thank you to everyone who has upgraded to PRO, it's what keeps us ad free!

We have increased the account per hour signup limits, if you ever run into problems just refresh the page and you get connected to a different server, and speaking of servers we are adding 2 more endpoints today.

We will be working on a few quality of life fixes like fixing the input clearing when making a comment on something due to the page content refreshing under you today.

We have managed to increase mail sending so we can comfortably per month if we had solid signups have 250 new accounts per hour. It's not ideal but higher than before. Count resets every hour on the hour.

Just pushed a fix for the timing on our signup limits, so now should be on the hour and at the time of posting this there are 50 new account sign ups that can be had for the hour, and every hour after that.

We have had to limit how many new accounts can be created per hour. If you cant sign up at this moment please check back in a little bit.

Just a quick update, thanks for so much support! We might need to limit signups just strictly due to the number of emails we are sending out every minute. It would be a daily user new user limit to hopefully get things back on track.

We have seen almost 5K new accounts join Hey.Café in the last few hours! Join the party! https://hey.cafe

We have a new public stats site. https://stats.hey.cafe

What a crazy week. Let's see how this week goes.

Please share Hey.Cafe with your family and friends! The more traffic we have here is a win for not only Canada, but for privacy. https://hey.cafe/conversation/gxtdow08myct7qf/please-share-hey-cafe-with-your-family-and-friends-the-more-traffic

Remember to take the time and follow new and interesting people!

We have some new updates that just went live, hope you all like them. We still have a LONG way to go but we are making great progress. As always if you have any suggestions please let us know.

Happy valentines day! ❤️

Last 13 days we added 269 accounts, we are still small but grateful for the community.

How does Fresh and Hot work on Hey.Café? No crazy algorithms. Content has a score until it gets to 48 hours old. It goes down every hour and its simple, each reaction is worth 8 and every comment is worth 40.

You don't need to think do I post on Bluesky, Hey.Café, or Mastodon. You can use our tool Later Bear to post to all 3, and if you share links from the other platforms to Hey we do embed the content properly. https://laterbear.com

If youre looking for a cozy, niche topic, very friendly, privacy focused social media space, I highly recommend @hey.cafe it is a fun place!

We just hit 4 thousand accounts!

Got some great ideas for new features or changes we should make? Share them to us here: https://hey.cafe/!bugs

What is the movie you like the most and watch over and over?

Quick what's that over there? 👉

You mater, no matter what.

Did you know we only scale media, but we store it in its original format, so if you upload a PNG photo we keep it a PNG in storage and only show an on demand JPEG/WEBP version for the preview image.

Hey look at that some new updates are live! https://hey.cafe/conversation/b9cha7ye7thhzxp/alright-new-update-is-out

How is your Monday going?

👋 Yellow... Wait no... 👋 Purple!!!

How has your night been going so far? I hope everyone takes it easy tonight and take the time to watch a good movie.

Did you know you can change the Hey.Café theme to your liking, by setting a background image and setting the accent colour and the theme colour you can customize things how you like them.

Sorry we don't have an end of year review.... We don't track how you use the service so we have no way to know how much time you spent reading each conversation. Enjoy the holidays instead!

Happy holidays everyone! This is a week to relax and have fun with friends and family.