[bluesmoon]

Wait, is this a rebrand of couchsurfing.org?

[vintagedave]

It looks completely different and is a non-profit:

> Couchers, Inc. is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization ... [incorporated] in the United States in late 2021, and the project was moved under the purview of this new non-profit in early 2022.

-- https://couchers.org/foundation

[gardnr]

Couchers has the same color "theme" that Couchsurfing had in ~2010.

Couchsurfing started as a 501c3:

https://blog.couchsurfing.com/a-letter-from-co-founder-casey...

[nabramow]

Volunteer dev for Couchers here, crazy seeing this pop up here!

Anyway to answer the question, we are totally separate from Couchsurfing.org!

We created Couchers in 2020 after Couchsurfing put up a pay wall, after going for-profit and going downhill for awhile.

We want to keep the original Couchsurfing spirit alive, so we started Couchers.org.

[toomuchtodo]

https://couchers.org/issues

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CouchSurfing#Change_to_a_for-p...

This is the phoenix rising from the enshittification, as is tradition.

[bluesmoon]

yeah, that's about the time I quit couchsurfing and limited my interactions to community meets. Then it pretty much died out. I couldn't tell if this is the same folks trying to do it right or different folks who believed in the original mission of CouchSurfing.

[listic]

Another project.

I happen to have an account with them, and also BeWelcome (what seems to be the closest to popular alternative to the original couchsurfing.org) and TrustRoots, too. Also, the original one, of course.