So there's a Polish word "chmura", means a cloud but usually in a "raincloud" kinda deal, a darker cloud. And Russian from the same Proto-Slavic word has an adjective "хмурый" (hmuryj), which means "gloomy". Interestingly specifically "хмуриться", the verb form, means "knit one's brows". So kinda a "negative mood" word.

So from what I understand from reading about the origins of these words, the Russian word also initially meant "a gloomy cloud", which was via a metaphor transferred to mean a human mood, and then mostly got stuck at that meaning. You can still call various gloomy things "хмурый", but it's now making parallels to a gloomy mood and the cloud meaning is pretty much lost.

It's very cool to see so many people coming to cohost! I hope everyone enjoys to be around!

Remember, you can set your avatar as something animated, write posts and replies as long as you want, look for tags about your most wide or your most niche interests (or create new tags yourself!). Following new people is a great way to discover other nice new people. You can also commit CSS crimes, or use it to include pictures in the replies for example. Be creative! Or not! Just be yourself and have a nice time.

There are of course things lacking here. For example, one of the problems i see is that there aren't many posts (chosts) in languages other than english. I think variety in languages can only reinforce the site, as many people won't have english as their main idiom, or won't be that confident using it often, etc.

So i want to take this chance to create #El Feed Global de Cohost, an spanish version of the most popular tag in Cohost (that would be #The Cohost Global Feed). Feel free to use it if you want to chat or share something in spanish!