The Death of Couchsurfing?

Re:The Death of Couchsurfing? by gmargari on Monday May 18, 2020 @02:32AM (#23219060)

So sad to see this aggressive shift. I have made many good friends from Couchsurfing, and I was paying the annually fee both to support the site and to be "Verified by CouchSurfing". Even though on March they received my annually payment, today after reading this article I tried to login to CS after some months, only to find out I had to pay _again_ to even access my profile. I could not see my photos, references, messages, nothing.

I'm really disappointed and sad, and I guess I'm also switching to BeWelcome.

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Re:The Death of Couchsurfing? by abyssin on Monday May 18, 2020 @03:15AM (#23219300)

Have a look at Trustroots, the management of the project is quite different and doesn't put the same emphasis on formal democratic processes as BeWelcome does, but it makes for a community that's closer to what seems to me the authentic couchsurfing spirit. All of these hospex networks brought me a lot anyway.

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Re:The Death of Couchsurfing? by gmargari on Monday May 18, 2020 @11:37AM (#23223720)

Thanks for the link abyssin, indeed seems very interesting. Btw, I tried accessing my profile from Wayback Machine and got a nice "This URL has been excluded from the Wayback Machine". Really Couchsurfing?

Also, I forgot to mention that the message you get when you login to couchsurfing.com is a landing page that says: "Due to the impact of Covid-19, we need your immediate help to keep Couchsurfing alive" and then the only options you have are: 1. Pay with Credit Card 2. Pay with PayPal 3. Logout (https://imgur.com/g7QKHEt)

Their site totally looks like ransomware.

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Re:The Death of Couchsurfing? by nicksellen on Monday May 18, 2020 @04:25AM (#23219800)

I'm one of the Trustroots contributors, you're right about the governance topic, we have a do-ocracy approach right now (described a bit at the bottom of https://www.trustroots.org/faq/foundation). I'm actually keen to evolve this, with a more specific approach to community-governance, but this thinking and these talks take time.

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Re:The Death of Couchsurfing? by abyssin on Monday May 18, 2020 @04:29AM (#23219822)

I'm perfectly happy with the current style of governance. It seems like it works, while BeWelcome is still struggling with endless babbling.

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Re:The Death of Couchsurfing? by bananasbandanas on Monday May 18, 2020 @03:53AM (#23219560)

I just tried to search for my city on BeWelcome to check it out. When I search from the landing page, I get a CSRF token error. When I then try to search again from the search page, I get a 404 /search/map not found. It seems they still have some way to go..

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Re:The Death of Couchsurfing? by ciceryadam on Thursday May 21, 2020 @06:17PM (#23266154)

3 days later it's still the same

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