the last cohost post
I'm thinking I may go through my private Piggybank blog and try to repost some of the more compelling posts I've written here. I might hold off until I receive the data export though because read-only mode blocks off access to the editor, so I can't grab the markdown version of my posts which I could otherwise drop into bear with little issue. Didn't really think ahead on that one, sorry. xP
Here's my last post on cohost though, because I'm still feeling pretty good about how I put together the words for this one:
man, this is wild. I can't recall if I've ever stuck around until the very last day of a web site before? I think I came back to Toontown Online for a bit before its closure, but that was a game of course, and that was after I had long moved away from it?
Meanwhile this happened while I was still in love with the site, not after I had begun to drift away. I've been still checking in every day until the very end.
I really did like this place. I found it after I had fallen out of working with Archie Sonic Online after their own bout of awful mismanagement, and was feeling jaded with Sonic, helping on Sonic fan stuff and the idea of working in comics in general. I needed a change, and then @jeffgerstmann just happened to mentioned cohost on tumblr one day. and I immediately fell in love with this site.
The moment I found out I didn't have to ublock the notification numbers away, and you could just turn them off. That was where I realized this place was something special. That a site attempting to be a new take on social media actually got me. And I think I've since learned a lot about myself, my online habits and the sites I had been frequenting.
I don't think I've seen a site's mismanagement crater itself as quickly as this one did, and in some ways, it mirrors the mismanagement I saw at ASO that brought me here. But there was always something about cohost that kept me coming back. My habits of removing numbers, trying to make my shy and introverted self interact and comment when possible, and putting little emphasis on followers... cohost confirmed to me that those habits I had built for myself over the years in an effort to stay healthy and safe online weren't unfounded.
And this site just so happened to coincidentally use my personal playbook as its blueprint. If anything, it confirms that I've been onto something here. and that more people also want to use the internet in the same way I do.