every time we say how many users are on the site it’s incorrect within an hour, so for now we’ll just say “a lot, more than we said in the financial update yesterday.”
relatively light this week, we’re putting a lot of work into support, moderation, and improving performance; none of which are extremely visible and all of which take a while to do.
first: we now have a better way to request new features! we’ve got a forum of sorts set up over on our support site where you can post feature ideas and vote for the ones you like. this will be incredibly helpful for us moving forward to be able to prioritize based on what y’all actually want! it will also allow us to shift resources from processing feature requests and towards processing support tickets that require action. we’ll link to it elsewhere soon, but you can always get there from help.antisoftware.club!
EDIT 1:23pm PDT: we were having some trouble with accounts on the support site that we think we've resolved. if you try creating a new support site account and it says your email is already in use, you've probably sent a support request before! just hit "forgot your password" on the login screen and you'll be able to set a password, log in, and submit ideas to your heart's content.
what’s new
- design and functionality changes for content warned and 18+ posts
- we're changing the term we use for 18+ content from 'adult content' to '18+ content'. this makes it clear what age restrictions pertain to it, and makes it easier to abbreviate.
- you can now re-hide any content warned or 18+ post that you’ve clicked through!
- logged out users can now view 18+ posts after passing an age gate
- note: you may have noticed some small visual bugs related to this work; they have been fixed as of this morning
- updated copy around how invites and activation work
- we had made this change about a month ago but, due to some issues with our text localization system, they didn’t actually take effect! this caused much confusion for everyone and has been resolved.
- assorted spam prevention measures on the backend
- for the first time ever, we are having to deal with spam! this is an important milestone in any young website’s life, and it also completely sucks.
- for obvious reasons, we are not stating what changed or what measures we are taking.
- this is one of the many fun new things we had to account for with the recent user growth. you’ll learn about more of them soon!
coming up on cohost
- a “hide comment” button in the comment threads for your posts
- folks were requesting better tools to handle comments that they didn’t want to see associated with their posts, and this was a feature we wanted to ship for a while, so we moved it up the stack.
- automated account deletions are still in progress
- this work shifted from jae to colin due to the performance fixes (keeping the site online) taking priority for them. hopefully should be wrapped up soon.
- the aforementioned performance fixes
- we are incrementally migrating the frontend over to a new general architecture that should help some of our bottlenecks. we’ll say more about this once it’s done.
- bookmarked tag feed
- jae still really wants to do this so it will happen after the initial perf fixes
- more support documentation!
- updated community guidelines
- we haven’t forgotten about this! we’re hoping to have the finalized wording done soon. there’s still a lot to consider around the wording here and we are still committed to getting it right. it’ll be easier for everyone if we do.
until next time, thanks for using cohost!



