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we're currently discussing that. as has been mentioned previously, source code ownership will revert to our funder, colin, and myself. our funder has written more about their thoughts on open sourcing the codebase.

short answer: we're still deciding. we know we'll be open sourcing at least some components (including the HTML generator we're building right now that will operate on data exports and give you something actually useable) but we're undecided on the site as a whole.

i am personally of the opinion that the source code is the least valuable part of cohost (the post renderer being one of the few truly interesting parts). anyone can build a website. the hard part is operating it.

He's come back in time to save us from the dark future where Cohost is gone!!

they call it a 事務所jimushooffice because it's the 所shoplace that has 事務jimu

cohost was built off of the lessons learned from a life spent on social media, looking at the mistakes others had made, looking at what they did right, and trying to build a platform that combined the best and accounted for the worst.

i hope that at some point in the future someone will look at the mistakes we made and the things we got right and do the same to us.

Cohost in the end feels like it was an experiment in what a better web could be, and I think it succeeded in spades, even if the site itself can't go on as it has.

I don't think there's going to be a "new Cohost", but something I saw that I loved was RuSSHdown's tagline of "Eggbug Memorial RSS Feed Project".

I like the idea of, going forward, Cohost being a kind of movement more than a single site. A pledge to a certain kind of experience and attitude that remembers what made the place different and great. That's why I put the "I was on Cohost" eggbug on my new blog: I want people to know that's the kind of web I want to see in the world, and keep on creating there.

A lot of people seemed to want this site to fail, but it won't have, as long as we all take what we learned and spread it far and wide.

Eggbug lives!