in response to a lot of feedback that we're sure everyone is aware of by now, we've worked with our lawyer to change our Terms of Use -- mostly to clarify the way we understood the rules before, but there's also a few small material changes as well.
here's the new version, effective immediately.
the most important bits:
- removed the broad and confusing set of IP rights granted to us for Community Forums (to be clear, we did not consider the Community Forum provisions in the old Terms to apply to posts in general and would not have enforced them in that context);
- clarified that while it's against the Terms to sign up with multiple user accounts, cohost allows and encourages you to create multiple pages for all your projects and sideblogs under your account;
- clarified that we do not consider registering under a fictional name or alias to be against the Terms, nor do we consider impersonation for the sake of parody to be against the Terms;
- clarified that we do not expect you to provide customer support for things you post to cohost, but insofar as anyone does, it's your responsibility rather than ours;
- added a carveout to the arbitration clause allowing you to skip arbitration for matters small enough that they can be tried in small claims court;
- removed the blanket prohibition on reverse engineering from the Terms, since a lot of reverse engineering (user scripting, discovering and root-causing bugs, etc.) is something we consider good and genuinely helpful; however, reverse engineering cohost with the intent to copy the software, distribute posts in violation of the poster's copyright, or interfere with the site's operation is still not allowed.
we hope this provides some clarity and peace of mind. thanks for using cohost 
