nicky flowers

When audio posts first got added and people made rhythm games with them

Befriended a coworker after randomly seeing em on here of all places

when blackle's puzzle box post came out i lost my mind. the first few months of the site as the demosceners figured out that you could truly post anything in the damn box were magical and blackle's puzzle box was the absolute pinnacle of that era.

username okay to mention. not specific moments, but every single time i've seen someone in a comment go "hey, what are you, a fucking cop", it meant the world to me. and it happened a lot. it made me feel safe, and welcome. like, i knew from those comments that this is a place where i don't need to watch my back, that i'll be taken in good faith, and i don't have to be fucking paranoid.

i'm going to miss the culture of "fuck, man, we're all too old and jaded to be cops" more than any specific moment.

I still think about your little Boyrap Premium/Eggbug Supremium post. It's been stuck in my head for years now haha

Among other things, art on here is what inspired me to start experimenting with glitch art, which has been pretty pivotal for my work.

people on here being both very open and very accepting about some identity stuff got me to think of myself a bit differently, for the better. similarly, i think this website made me a furry, and i wouldn't have it any other way.

lmao NickyFloweRSS

Seeing people post about neocoties prompted me to figure it out bc I always wanted a very plain, simple spot to dump my writing, so I did, thanks to cohost. Also following a ton of musicians on here got me using bandcamp way more than I ever did before, and got me listening to new music more than I have in like almost 20 years.

On a barely related note, I knew of you/your art but never followed you on Twitter, but then knew you did Gay Baseball w/ Lys, and then we became mutuals here and I don't remember if we have even ever exchanged comments but when you like my posts sometimes I'm like "oh shit, that's cool." Anyway, see ya around gay baseball maybe.

everyone posting their eggbug plushes. eggbug in general.

The first time I ever read “Sheev’s Plan” by @Sullivan. Learning about movies, books, and shows I’d never heard of before from all kinds of people all the time. Everything @NastyaRomanov ever posted. All of the writers like @folly and @NoelBWrites who made me want to get better at writing

Loved lovehonk, the css crimes, "He is only carbon now," many things. Mostly I just liked being on a social site that wasn't designed for addiction and provocation. I'll miss that.

discovering the prompt writing culture on cohost, its unique F/F focus & acceptance of trans & kinky art, getting into writing by taking part in it, making my own prompt account and sending out over 200 prompts to which people wrote 218 stories.

there's so many prompt accounts i can't list, truly, and the folks writing even my own prompt account can't capture more than median chunk.

it's gonna continue elsewhere, we're gonna find a way, but it was such a special and unique thing to this site and i'm gonna miss it being here a lot.

A fond memory I had was downloading wacky userscripts. I remembered this one script where you you had a eggbug bouncing around. You could click on it and it would fly off in a random direction! So funny...

I remember markdown++ and making that stupid Fog post... God... CSS Crimes... I'll miss CSS Crimes...

COMPOST weekends were always the best

When New Garfield became an unofficial mascot for the site and everyone was drawing them getting up to Hijinks. When Love Honk was discovered. @sullivan's Sheev's Plan post, which I've read out loud to people multiple times it's just that good. #Cohost Build Club, which got me back into my gunpla hobby work in a big way!

The feeling of having a post do Severals and just feeling happy about that and not having to worry about the numbers.

The NES Pictionary Bot becoming just a sitewide project as we all were riffing off of it, and submitting art, and just watching as it flourished and grew.

username is okay to include.

there are too many things to consider as a single favorite, but something that permeates throughout my entire experience with this website and its users is faith. And no, not like some weird religious connotation of the word - very much the opposite. I guess it could be called "secular" faith? iunno if that's already a term that exists, but just like. the community and understanding, inherently, that other folks are okay to interact with. Faith in my fellow users.

realizing maybe this is better described as "queer faith." This feels like a better way to describe it, since the queerness of this space plays a tremendous factor in the unspoken understanding that I've experienced. I am confident I'm not the only user who has experienced this particular sense of community, but this is definitely the most noticeable part of my experience as a user of cohost.

i think my favorite part about cohost was seeing all the loudly plural people. and loudly therian people. and like- the fact that the css was so permissible meant that i got to see these people, y'know? like, they had little avatars for their talking and it meant that they were there, more tangibly than any other site we've ever used

that's a special treat we'll never forget

i keep thinkin about the paul mccartney christmas song chost. the interactable with the thirty audio sections

definitely The Gameboy. I will never forget the gameboy and its sea of blood. thank you @sleeps-darkly for running with my idea and making it happen and all the people who enjoyed watching it suffer :)

i've always been a terminal lurker but cohost let me have a space on the internet where i could feel like i could just post without the fear of getting attacked for existing. it also helped me embrace even further being a weirdo furry, and also a therian. it was a comfortable place to explore and learn and i loved reading people's high quality infodumps on various topics. also the css crimes were a lot of fun, even if i didn't personally have the skills to create a crime myself

i posted goofy dark souls art i made and someone liked it enough to print it out, make it a bumper sticker, and give me $30 about it

idk i just keep thinking about how the site got me into actual creative css. i couldn't imagine building a website then bam we're messing with css on here and now i have a whole ass neocities and suite of open source poorly written twitch toys and it's all cuz of cohost. there is just no other site with such a low barrier to website shitposting that comes with a built in audience.

i also miss the dream it represented for a better and more equitably fairer future. thought we were gonna have a world where patreon has actual competition n it wasn't owned and ruined by capital. just wish this site had pulled it off

@obscureenvironments was a joy and I'll probably start something like it. made sure to save it on archive.org

wish i hadn't just lurked on cohost, it seemed cozy and i need internet friends