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Oh no :(

Thank you for all the work you put out on that site. It was a neat little corner of the internet and I’m glad it existed for the time it did.

damn.
Thank you for everything though! It's a cool place you've built!

Sad to hear, but thank you all for working so hard to create a space on the internet that was so good.

rip :[

Thank you for everything 🫡

rip eggbug :(

well this fucking sucks ass honestly. good run and once again, thanks for making cohost

Thank you for everything. It's been an honour to be part of it.

Thanks, and I had a great time while I was here!

this was the coolest website on the internet, if only for a little bit. cohost changed who i am and how i think about social media. i can't believe it's over. thank you all for your work.

Thank you for all the effort you've put into running the site over the past few years, seriously, and thanks as well for giving us a good amount of warning on it shutting down. I'm wishing you all the best of luck with your future careers!

really sad to hear, cohost has been such a cozy little geek corner to meet new folks in. I would not have met many new people that have significantly changed my life over the past year were it not through the contacts I made here.

I appreciate all y'all have done, and I really appreciate the way you're handling the wind-down. It's surprisingly comforting knowing everything I've chosted shall return to the digital dust from whence it came.

I wish y'all the best of luck in the future and I'll cherish the few years of chill this site gave me

i'm saddened to hear the news, but thank you staff for all your hard work! i'm glad that i got to be a part of cohost while it existed :)

a bit of a shock to read, but it was a good time while it lasted. thank you for having created cohost :)

Thanks for having made cohost! Hopefully future endeavors go well.

Damn, this became my primary social media hangout for the past few months. Thanks for everything, really, really amazing platform you built

this is terrible news, and thank you for everything. i'm going to miss this place so much. thank you for making cohost. ❤️

For the last time...thanks for making Cohost! I'm gonna miss it.

Thank you for showing that better things are possible. Eggbug forever.

Unfortunate - this was a space where I could feel comfortable actually expressing myself more genuinely.

しようがない…

Sad news. But thanks for all you did!

damn, this sucks ass

this was the most fun I've had online in so long. You guys made a cool space here and I'm sorry you won't be able to keep it going. The stripe thing is so fucked up

Thank you for everything you've done.

Thank you for what you acomplished

💜

Thank you for all your work and efforts.

I loved being here. I will miss this space. It is something really special.
Sad to hear this.

Thank you so much for even trying

You did your best, and this was a noble endeavor. I'm deeply sorry that things turned out this way

This was the only space that was safe for me to exist in. I will likely not join another social media site...

Thank you so much for making cohost, I'll miss this place. I met people here that have changed my life.

This was the only place online that ever felt safe, and ever felt like home. I'm sad beyond measure. There were so many connections made, and now so many will be broken, and lost.

Thank you all for making CoHost. Your work was and is valued deeply. It was beautiful while it lasted.

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Thank you, cohost staff, for everything you did, for creating this place. I'm sorry it was so hard on you. In a better world it would have been pleasant and sustainable.

<3

Thanks for giving it a go; I'm glad this place existed!

aw im gonna miss this place :(((

thank you, cohost

Thank you, from the bottom of my heart, for making Cohost. This place facilitated the healthiest relationship I've ever had with social media, and I'm deeply appreciative of the attempt to make a more ethical social media platform.

Well my heart just shattered. Where do we go now? Tumblr sucks, Pillowfort is a joke, nobody seems interested in using whatever that fediverse version of this kind of platform is called...

Thanks for all you guys did. I just wish it didn't come to this. Hopefully someone will be inspired enough to make something like this elsewhere...

Thanks for keeping this going long as y'all could!

thanks for everything, i'll miss it here 🫡

This is heartbreaking, but understandable. So sad, this place was so cozy.

Thank you for everything 💙 I've met a number of wonderful people through this site, and it's been a consistent bright spot for me over the past few years. I hope all of you can find a way to keep doing the work you love in a way that supports your values ✨ It's been a pleasure being a part of this site of yours

I'd like to thank all of you for all the blood, sweat and love you've poured into this site. It's been one of my favorite websites and I'm gonna miss it dearly. I guess plush eggbug will always be a reminder of what could've been

Well that sucks ass. I hope ya'll manage to find new work.

I do recommend setting a data export deadline before the final day of operations, so that there is buffer for processing last-minute exports and allowing people to download them.

Aside that: Sad to see it go, and thank you for the hard work. You deserve the break, and good luck on the future endeavors, everyone.

Y'all tried your hardest and it was a number of hard problems to solve. Be proud of the work you did and the cool posts you helped enabled by making this space. I hope you can all find work that is more rewarding and less taxing once it's over Thanks for making cohost!

thank you very much for everything you've done <3

it's been beautiful, and it really showed everyone here what the internet could be

proposed FAQ entry: will the data export be only things we authored, or will it include the contents and metadata of posts we reshared and comment threads we participated in? what about interactions with things we authored?

we ask this because we know that the simplest GDPR strategy is the one twitter uses; Twitter, for example, takes the legal and technical position that if you have a conversation in DMs, only the messages you sent are yours, so the export only has your half of it.

yeah, it sucks to have a complicated legal question while you're winding down. sorry :(

Thank you for everything, and for doing your best to build a site that was different in ways that mattered.

it deserved to work, morally! sorry about material reality

Thank you for helping me meet a few new friends and making me feel like a human more than an audience member on the internet. Doing good in the world isn't measured by how many money points you accumulated, it's how many people you impacted positively, and I think y'all managed to do that a lot

see you, space cowboy.

Thanks so much for all that you have done

i appreciate all of y'all's hard work. i've had a lot of fun on cohost.

Thanks :(

thank you for everything, it was a really good run.

im gonna miss this website thanks for keeping it up for as long as you have

Thank you for giving us such a wonderful site for the short time it was around!

open source please

im gonna fucking cry. this was the only website on the entire internet i actually liked. the only place i actively looked forward to visiting daily.

This was an interesting experience. Thank you, and hope things work out for all of you later on!

Man,

RIP, it was amazing while it lasted 😔

This sucks. But I want to say thank you! Thank you for carving out a new space online, thank you for giving me a place to find people who shared my interests in YouTube and ttrpgs, and thank you for making cohost, cohost.

absolutely crushed.
thanks for making cohost, i’ll miss it once it’s gone.

RIP to a good web site. I hope y'all are able to recover from the burnout in time 💜

Ive really enjoyed being here, but I appreciate your transparency in addressing this. Wishing the best of luck to you and the rest of the team, even if its ending sooner than ideal, you guys still created a great space.

Thanks for everything, staff! The journey here was amazing and I'll remember this forever as one of the coolest social media I had.

Thank you for making the internet fun again, if only for a little bit

damn, I'm really bummed to hear this. but thank you so much for making cohost and developing it - I've really enjoyed using it, and I hope in the future that a place like cohost will reemerge (hopefully with some input or advice from you all - your work should never be discredited!)

Jeez. So devastated to hear this. You all worked so hard on making this a different, better social media site. It won't be forgotten. Thank you for everything.

thank you so much for all the work you did to make a wonderful space for everyone. best wishes for all of you.

thanks for making cohost- the site might be temporary but at least the egg bug plush is gonna last a lot longer.

thank you for everything. this website is one of the main highlights of my time online

the eggbug will always be in my heart and in my plushie-corner.
thank you for everything though! had fun interactions ...

This was fantastic while it lasted, and it will be missed.

Oh no. This was the good site. :(

thanks for everything

This was a grand experiment that I was all too happy to be a participant in. I had a feeling it would end this way, but I’m glad ya’ll tried it anyhow. If anything, it proves that large scale social media’s costs are only bearable through extensive data harvesting and exploitation, which is that much more motivation to toss it all out into the garbage and build something better.

Thanks again for all the work you put into this. I loved my time here, and wish you all the best of luck in whatever endeavors come next. CoHost may be but a blip in the timeline, but it was one hell of a blip.

<3<3<3 hugs

This really makes me so incredibly sad. This has been my favourite social media site ever since I joined.

Thank you for all the memories, and thank you for your hard work.

thanks for closing cohost!

I'm sorry to hear about this. Y'all worked really hard and I appreciate all of the effort you've put in. I really hope that the future treats y'all kindly.

you all should be really proud though. you made a really special place. Going to miss this a lot a lot. might sound flip but honestly the NON-app, website only aspect of cohost enabling porn and tons of related expression is possibly something I might wind up missing most. I hope future folks who attempt something like this in the future take note. thank you staff ❤️💔

So what about Artist Alley? I'm assuming that has to shutter at some point before the end of the year, just so the then-existing ads can run their course. But are you going to stop accepting them in October when things go read-only, or at some other date?

This makes me sad to hear. Thank you for all of your hard work.

so sorry it's ended this way, you've built a wonderful place and i've really enjoyed my time here, all the best for your futures

Even though you eventually had to quit, cohost was not a failure and will never be.

thanks for everything ❤️

Thank you for everything. Cohost was a beautiful place on which to be on. I loved the whole website and the community on here, and will have wonderful memories of here.

Thank you.

I am so incredibly sad to read this... but I completely understand. Thank you so much for all of your hard work in creating and maintaining this unique space. I will surely miss this site and all of the people here. I wish the best of luck to all of you in your future endeavors. 💜💛

thank you for making cohost

Thanks for cohost, it was good while we had it!

that sucks ass...thank you guys for everything over the months!

It's been real y'all. Thank you so much for running this space, and I'm really sorry it didn't work out :(

gg no re

thank you cohost

oh no :(

thank you for making this site. it made my life better the whole time I was on it <3

I’m grateful beyond words for everything and truly heartbroken it couldn’t last longer

That's a real shame to hear. Cohost has felt like a very cozy place since I've gotten here. There'll always be a place in my heart for the eggbug.

absolutely heartbreaking but understandable, this place truly felt like the last meaningful refuge of the queer internet.

thank you for being such good stewards. please rest after this.

cohost was my favourite place on the internet - it really felt like home, as much as a social platform could. thanks for everything.

RIP it was nice while it lasted

This...sucks. Loved this site. Fun while it lasted. Thanks for the time we had here.

Thanks for everything y'all have done. This was the best social site I've ever used.

I'm devastated but I understand. Thank you for keeping the dream alive as long as you could. This place really felt like home from the moment it started. I don't know what could possibly take its place.

Aww man. Well, thank you for trying! I enjoyed it while it lasted.

its been an honor posting with you all o7 o7 o7 o7

Damn. I'm gonna miss this place. Thank you for all the hard work in getting us this far, I loved my time here.

rest in bug...

Thank you for making the best social media experience ive ever had :<

Thank you for making the best social media experience ive ever had :<

I really loved my time here, and wish everyone the best as they move on to new things. Thank you for the wonderful site, all your efforts were appreciated. I'm sad to see cohost go. Eggbug on.

goodbye eggbug. i will miss you

thank you for making cohost

Thank you so much for your effort and I am so sorry you have to shut down. You were amazing while around T_T

really sad to see this go, its definitely been one of my favourite spaces, but y'all need to look after yourselves! wishing you guys all the best!

How will data exports work for reblog chains? Is there are multiple users in a reblog chain, one of which is you, will you be getting the data of every post in the chain, or just yours?

How will data exports work for reblog chains? Is there are multiple users in a reblog chain, one of which is you, will you be getting the data of every post in the chain, or just yours?

Gonna miss this site. Fine folks made it. Good people posted here.

Sorry that yall couldnt keep it going and the stresses maintaining it wrought. Thanks for building what you could. 🖖

Shame it has to end this way, but it was worth a good shake. Thanks for making cohost.

I am so sorry to hear about this. I have been away from the site for some time because of IRL shenanigan's.

Thank for your hard work, it was certainly appreciated.

Thank you for making a place where I liked to be online!

Thank you for pushing to try something that genuinely felt good to use. Cohost was a good experience while it existed <3

Shame it has to end this way, but it was worth a good shake. Thanks for making cohost.

Gonna miss this site. Fine folks made it. Good people posted here.

😿

thanks for all the work, really gonna miss cohost

thank you for your efforts.

Thank you for making a place where I liked to be online!

😿

Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuck man. I've only been here a few months, maybe a year, but I was really hoping this place would grow. It was such a nice, cozy alternative to some other sites. This is really sad. I hate that it's so hard to be successful without stooping to basically being spyware like all the mainstream social media sites.

Serious respect to everyone who helped keep the site running without a break or a paycheck though. Criticisms and issues aside, very few people would work non-stop and be on-call year-round without pay.

Hey, before you guys shut the doors, you say the policy change at Stripe is largely the cause of this, due to their stance on tipping. Okay, but what if it’s not tipping, and you position it as people purchasing digital goods, and then just give people who buy cohost currency a little thing for their profile (like tumblr does). Surely that solves that problem?

thank you all for everything. I am so glad I got to be part of this while it happened

thank you for making an attempt. sorry it had to end like this

I'm sorry to hear that suicide baiting and lolicon didn't pay the rent.

FAQ suggestion: What happens to EggBug? What're they doing next?

🧡

Thanks for everything. Sorry it had to end this way.

thank you for making the best social media site there is. I'm very sorry it wasn't sustainable for anybody, but it was great while it lasted.

thank you so much for making this site. its a damn shame. good luck in all future ventures

thank you for an awesome website. i'll miss this place. eggbug forever.

Genuinely, thank you for working so hard and creating a space that genuinely felt like a community. My time here was amazing and I will dearly miss it.

Alright who farted

You gave it your best shot and despite it not working out in the end you made one hell of a good website.

I'm gonna miss Cohost.

Extremely grateful for all the work that went into this, it was fun while it lasted.

Cohost may end up being a brief part of my life, but it was a special part. Thank you for everything.

This is so sad, but it was wonderful while it lasted. rest in peace cohost

o7

this site meant a lot to me and i imagine i'm going to genuinely mourn it for a while after it's gone. thank you for keeping this together for as long as you could

Thanks for the good time while it lasted.

This is awful, this is the only place I felt okay and safe. gonna go back to having nowhere at all now. I can't believe this is happening

Thank you for everything <3

Thank you for all of your hard work!

Tragic. It feels like there's no space for good sites anymore.

incredibly unfortunate news, even if it did kinda seem like it wasn't gonna last forever.

Thank you for the work you all put into this site, even if I didn't really use it much it was still a lovely little hub and community to scroll through and read, the atmosphere overall was honestly unique imo.

very grateful for the bit of time this site will exist for and has existed.

Thank y'all for cohost even existing. Shame that it ended up like this but it's understandable. I hope all y'all can take care of yourselves and be well.

Huge shame. I got a lot out of this place.

Rip, i was hardly active but it was fun while it lasted. I'm glad so many people had a good time. RIP COHOST2024 YOU WILL BE MISSED <3

Fuck.

It was a good run while it lasted. Thanks for making Cohost.

#hugops

this was pretty much the only shot at a good social media, i don't expect there to be another. weird enough it happened once.
and it says a lot about rich people that not even one would just no-strings-attached give cohost a million dollars.
very sad day for the internet imo

Thanks for the good times on the internet ❤️

Thank you, it's been fun

at least i'll always have my eggbug plush

Oh nooooooooooo

Thank you for everything cohost staff. It's been real.

Much love to you all. I’m gonna miss this place and I’m really proud of you all for giving yourselves to the idea!

thank you for everything ;_;

So the train is making its final round, eh? All good things must come to an end, I suppose. I shall ride the train to its final destination and go from there. Thank you, Cohost. May we meet again in the future.

genuinely heartbroken about this. i hope that things come around in some sort of miracle, but until then it was a great run. ill miss this place

yall have been wonderful. Too much to say for a single comment. Please rest up, we'll all see each other again somewhere sometime, never gonna forget this place and these people (creatures).

thank you for making cohost, eggbug will never die

i'm sorry this didn't work out. been rooting for you the whole time, despite everything. i hope y'all are able to unwind and deal with the burnout, and can move forward knowing you built what is still the coolest social media to exist. thanks for all the fun!

Gods damn it... and here I was going to be getting the subscription as a gift to myself with my birthday next week, because this site has been such a joy. This just... fuckin' SUCKS, yo...

... I do, genuinely, hope you all land on your feet, and thank you all for your hard work and dedication all these years. It's meant the world to more than a few of us, as I'm sure you're aware at this point.

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dang. was fun while it was around, ty guys.

i'm sorry this didn't work out. been rooting for you the whole time, despite everything. i hope y'all are able to unwind and deal with the burnout, and can move forward knowing you built what is still the coolest social media to exist. thanks for all the fun! good luck with everything!!!!

Thank you for everything you've built.

I'll always savor the moments of shelter and community I experienced here.

thats so sad i wish you guys good luck going through it

shiiiieeeeet

I wish I donated; it wouldn't have done much in the grand scheme of things but it would have helped make this better. Thank you all for the work you've all done.

This might actually be the worst news I've received all 2024.

But sincerely, thank you all for all the hard work you've put into this website. I loved it, it was an incredibly cool place. I wish I had been able to financially support it.
Best of luck with all you do in the future. RIP coolest website ever.

thank you for everything. this website was a great place that proved to me there's still people that are interested in the art i make.

this was inevitable financially unfortunately, but it doesnt make me less sad to lose this place. made some good memories here, thats for facilitating that at least

I enjoyed my time here, even if I wasn't super active. Sorry to see you guys go

rest in peace. it was a good run.

it's so sad knowing how this was an inevitability, but we'll all look back on this site fondly

Ya'll were the realist. RIP.

This is so incredibly sad. Cohost helped us immensely as a system, put us in contact with so many new friends and was the only social network that we really enjoyed. We've felt bad for not checking on it too much recently and it sucks that this happened before we had much of a chance to come back to the site. :(

very sad time
I'll genuinely miss the quality and variety of posts and posting here, but I'm glad I could be part of this place while it lasted

Thank you so much for the one place that felt like it could actually be a home to me. No other website really... "fit" this comfortably before. I'm really heartbroken to see things go this way - but I commend you all for... actually knowing when to stop, and avoid hurting yourselves.

This was a marvelous testament to what the internet could be. I really pray it isn't the last, by your hand or another's - and that you all can still continue to make marvelous things in your futures.

Big thank you for the staff. Sad that it has to be this way, but if it's as bad as it seems then I'm glad you guys are able to end it on decent terms.

Damn, sorry to hear. I was really hoping this site would push through, I really enjoyed it for what it was.
I hope that at some point maybe you guys can cobble up a plan and bring back Cohost in the future, but thanks for the effort and everything else.

Completely devastated. This felt like the last stand of a fun internet. Be well, stay safe and best of luck with whatever you do. I'll always miss this place.

Cohost was the only social media which actively made me happy to use.

I've got a lot of feelings, but for now all I want to say is thanks for making Cohost.

genuinely heartbroken about this. i hope that things come around in some sort of miracle, but until then it was a great run. ill miss this place

Thank you for all the you've done, it was truly wonderful

Thank you so much for all of your hard work

Thank to this site I started writing again

Why wasn't it an option to switch from Stripe to a different payment processor?

This is damn sad, but it was fun to be here ;w;

This is damn sad, but it was fun to be here ;w;

o7

thank you.

Are reblogs are going to be part of the account export? It would suck to lose everything we've ever reblogged.

Shit, I'm so sorry yall. I'm gonna miss this place. I met a lot of great people here, so thanks for everything <3

i am so incredibly heartbroken. Man, im so sorry it didnt work out

Thanks for putting this place together and generally fighting the good fight. Even if Cohost didn't ultimately end up being sustainable, it was still successful in building a nice place for a community to flourish.

Thanks also for having a clear and very responsible/friendly plan for shutting this place down gracefully.

Good luck with your future endeavors, and hopefully enjoy a good break from customer service and on-call!

this place was cool asf....
Godspeed

Thank you Aidan, Colin, Jae, and Kara.

Thank you for everything. I'll miss this place a lot.

best wishes and thank you for everything

We will always have eggbug

overall this was a really fun place and i had a blast. thank you!

Thank you for everything.

thanks for a neat site! sad it didn't last but i hope you're proud of what you accomplished. best of luck to y'all on the job hunt!

I really appreciate everything you all have done! This was a site like no other.

Best of luck as you move forward ❤️

thank you so much for all your hard work. cohost was a gentle warm glow in an otherwise pitch black shitscape. i'll miss it, though at least i'll have my eggbug to hug.

best wishes to you all for whatever comes next 💜

<3 thank you

I'll miss cohost when its gone, thank you for making a site that doesn't feel like I'm selling my soul to share pictures online

MAN.

And I just set up shop here earlier this year!

Gutted to see this place go, it was genuinely a neat and quieter alternative to tumblr.

thank you for all the hard work

even if i wasn't able to break the curse of "mentally stuck on larger websites" i appreciate what this site set out to do and it's sad that the decision had to be made to cut it off.

wishing the best for it for whatever y'all do next!

Thank you so much for making cohost.

Thanks for everything. ✌️

thank you for making cohost 💖

so long & thanks for all the bug

o7

Disappointingly inevitable. Y'all, this is why people kept suggesting (among many other things) accepting community moderators - so you wouldn't burn yourselves out.

I wanted the site to work out but the math could never add up without change. Thanks for the effort, hopefully whoever tries next learns from this.

I appreciated this place very much. Such a great place, sad to see it go

thank you until the end

I've met people I wouldn't have otherwise and found artists I would not have seen anywhere else because they'dhave been buried under stats and algos. The same could be said for those who found me here.

I'm grateful for what you've built and I hope the next chapter's good for each and every one of you. Thanks for having us.

RIP. 😢

You were one of the friendliest and endearing (non-Discord) social media sites that I had the pleasure of frequenting.

Thank you for all the time you put into this site. Many thanks to all the people and communities who contributed to this being such a small yet lovable place. 🫂

May we meet again in the future. 👋

thank you for everything

Sorry it didn't work out, but thanks for the effort! I've really enjoyed my time with this place!

thank you so much for everything <3

Thank you for Cohost. I hope the rest of the year goes smoothly and best of luck in whatever comes next for you.

I really appreciate the work you folks did. This place was a joy, and was my number 1 destination. I wish you all the best.

rest in peace lil cohost, you've been wonderful!

aw :(

And I actually use this site! Not much, but I check it every day! Not sure where else to go now...

Bummer, but thanks for the service, seemed like a nice little platform!

man this made me tear up a little bit :( im gonna miss this site, thank you all for giving us what you could

i always knew this was an inevitability, and i've been prepared for a while now. i did still hope we had at least a couple more months left in the tank though, and the shutdown was always gonna be a sad time. nevertheless - don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened. there's a lot about online community building that we've learnt from cohost, and i hope we can bring those lessons along to whereever the wind takes us next.

thanks for making cohost, everyone

Cohost was built with care, novelty, and sincerity - and what a great idea it was, at alllmost the right time. It led me to learn and create new things while being inspired by all the talented creators.

To the team, you're super skilled and obviously hard working, and I'm so sure you have bright futures ahead. Surely it'll be bittersweet to not have to worry about the project anymore, but do know you did an incredible job keeping it going this long, and don't be discouraged to follow your next dreams. Rock on :)

I'll eventually have to make a final post to bookend my time here, though I guess the server is currently stressed by the sudden news haha.

One request though! I'd love for the export to include both the pre-parsed "raw" posts, and post-parsed HTML versions.

thank's for everything y'all

💗It was a lovely site while it lasted. I enjoyed my time here.

rest in peace cohost,

now i wish I were more (at all) active here

Thanks for making cohost

Thanks for trying. I'll just be on my own corner of the net like before.

well, damn

thank you all for making this place what it was, if always felt better than any other site, I enjoyed opening the site and there wasn't some itch in the back of my mind to open it when I was away

a low bar perhaps, but one you more than surpassed, I'll think about this site for a long time to come

thank you for making cohost, and sharing it with the world

Thanks for everything, we'll miss this site dearly.