Hi all,
I’d like to share an important update about the forum.
As many of you know, this platform has been instrumental in helping us launch and shape Couchers. It’s been a space for connecting passionate folks from all around the world, sharing our ideas and motivations, and setting the direction for Couchers. We’re incredibly grateful for everyone’s contributions and the meaningful conversations we’ve had here!
That said, we’ve realized the forum no longer serves the same purpose. The original goals—coming together and defining direction—have largely been fulfilled. While a forum can still be useful for public support or product feedback, we have found its use declining below a level that keeps active conversations going and engaging.
As a volunteer-driven project, it’s important that we stay focused and streamline our communication. Volunteers are now using Slack for development and collaboration. We’ve also set up dedicated support channels within the app and via email. For these reasons, we’ve decided to sun-set the forum over the course of this year.
We’ll start by making most categories read-only soon. This means no new posts or discussions will be allowed, but all existing content and accounts will remain accessible.
As a follow-up step we’d love to keep this read-only version of the forum online as an artefact. It’s a great testimony to community collaboration. For this we’d still need to investigate the best way how to do that. There’s some options and they would likely imply anonymizing all user accounts.
If you have experience or ideas about this direction, please share your thoughts on this topic! Also, to stay involved with Couchers, please consider:
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