Keep in touch with us, Chosters! We'll be around the web in these places:

🍬 $60 Fright Edition
🍬 $10+ Treat Edition
🍬 itch.io account
🍬 carrd Press Kit

Our Press Kit includes links to all of our other socials, but you're all some of our favorite people on the internet. Take care, and stay spooky 🎃

Cohost wasn't a perfect website by any means, and I didn't expect it to kick around forever. But it was here, and it was brilliant, and while I didn't spend as much time here as perhaps I would have liked I still greatly enjoyed what time I did spend. And I deeply wish, as we're coming to the end, that we had more of it.

Goodbye, CSS crimes.

Goodbye, inexplicable fanart of Eggbug.

Goodbye, strange inside jokes which seemingly appeared out of nowhere.

Goodbye to a website that encouraged slow, thoughtful use. A website which matched well with my tendency to write for a long time about things I care about. A website which allowed me to find what I care about in a way that many websites don't.

I'll never completely forget following along with @CohostTextAdventures each morning, or discovering that Ryan Reynolds was nothing but carbon. It'll live with me in the same way that other websites and games and gathering places long gone do. And I don't think I'll ever completely stop missing it.

I don't know anyone on this website very well, but we were strangers together and I don't think anything can ever take that away from us. I'll miss you. I'll miss being able to swing around and spot you out of the corner of my eye and say "hey, that seems pretty cool."

Cohost was the perfect piece of social media for me to want to use it, at least for a while. I miss these smaller dedicated communities that are just public enough to be open to everyone and just wide enough that everything's happening on them all at once. Cohost had a feeling to it that was fundamentally different from a website like Tumblr or Twitter. It's almost like a big wide forumboard about everything and anything. I wonder how long it'll take to find another one like that.

Maybe I'll keep an eye on Bluesky.