it’s cohost launch anniversary week! you might remember that we celebrated our first birthday (as well as eggbug’s birthday) back in february, and might be confused why we have two birthdays. february was our private launch, but june 28, 2022 was our public-facing launch! those of you who joined on launch day have now been here for a year!
to celebrate, we have some Fun Surprises:
new merch
say “holo” to SUPER RARE and ULTRA RARE HOLOGRAPHIC EGGBUGS! it’s the same little guy you love, but a little shinier.
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add ‘em to your collection here!
we’re also launching….. drum roll please……


there’s no real explanation for this one other than we thought eggbug booty shorts would be really funny. they are, so now they’re real! (and they have pockets
) if anyone runs a race in these, be sure to send us your finish line picture.
and now, probably the biggest merch announcement so far:
we’re making an official eggbug plush!
that’s right, folks. eggbug is real and our friend (soon). we’re working with makeship to launch an eggbug plush campaign- stay tuned for more information and updates as we get closer to production!
Asks!
today is also the initial release of Asks, which we’ve been working on for a bit! for those who aren’t familiar, this is our implementation of a formspring/curious cat/tumblr/retrospring/etc-style question and answer system. since this is a complicated feature that affects many parts of the website, we’re releasing it a little differently from normal.
as of right now, only staff members are able to receive asks. over the next few days, we’ll be enabling asks for more users. our goal here is to catch any technical issues that arise with as few people impacted as possible. we’ll post updates on rollout progress here.
asks behave similarly to comments; you can write markdown but not HTML. responses, on the other hand, are full fledged posts! anything you can do in a post you can do in an ask response.
once you’ve enabled receiving asks (check your project settings page!) you can also choose to allow anonymous asks, as well as restricting anonymous asks to ONLY users who are logged in. this is required for one of our main features to work consistently: Anonymous Blocks!
if you’re getting anonymous asks you don’t like, you have the option to block that user from sending you more asks. this, obviously, requires us to know who is sending the asks, so it won’t always work if you allow for logged-out anonymous asks. you can also report any asks you receive that violate our community guidelines.
we’re planning to add more to asks over time, but we’re excited to have the base out now!
that’s all for today! thanks for using cohost over the last year. we’re thrilled with where the site’s at and excited for it to keep growing. eggbug forever 


sticker! {reserved} yay for plushie! {questioning} yay? for? asks‽