Cohost Is Closing

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Cohost is closing. Registration shut down on September 9 when the closure was announced. It will go read-only on October 1, 2024 and disappear entirely at the end of 2024. See "Cohost News" for more on this topic and what you can do about it. Use the "Introduction / Friending Meme" to say hello and meet new people or find your Cohost friends here. A mourning post is here.

If you are on Cohost, you may find Dreamwidth a viable replacement. Scroll down for more resources about this.

For people on any other service, this is an opportunity to scoop new users. Listen to why people liked Cohost and say they will miss it. Does your favorite service meet any of those needs? If so, encourage people to move there instead. Gathering more of your friends together will make any service more fun to use.

For example, people have described Cohost as friendly, creative, innovative, user-expressive, community-oriented, with good features and moral developers. Dreamwidth has free, paid, and premium levels so you can choose the package that suits your needs. It offers private blogs, themed communities, and pretty robust moderation tools that let you delete comments you don't want on your blog or block people so they can't bother you. It's easy to find bloggers you like and nurture a sense of community. You can make short posts, carry long conversations, share images, and so on. Want a hate-free online space? It's not that hard to make one. Want to make a Cohost-like experience on Dreamwidth? Consider starting a community or using feeds. Looking for communities on your favorite topics to replace the Cohost accounts that you used to enjoy? Check out followfriday for suggestions, or watch dw_community_promo. You can also use the search box in your blog header or the Interests page. Community Thursdays is just a custom of folks posting what they've done in communities recently, whether posting or commenting.

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Cohost News

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These are some articles about the upcoming closure of Cohost and what you can do about that. Please pass the word, and share any resources you have.

See "Cohort Is Closing" for resources on using Dreamwidth instead. Use the "Introduction / Friending Meme" to say hello and meet new people or find your Cohost friends here.  You might also like eggbug_club.

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How to Find Things You Like on Dreamwidth

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Dreamwidth blogs can cover any topic. Some are tightly thematic and only cover one thing; many have a wider range. They usually state their parameters in the profile and/or a sticky post. Learn how to find things to read on Dreamwidth.  See "Let Your Freak Flag Fly" for inclusivity and diversity on Dreamwidth.  Find more resources here.  Scroll down for further ideas ...

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Introduction / Friending Meme

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This is an opportunity to introduce yourself and your blog, as well as meet other people on Dreamwidth. Answer whatever questions you wish and skip anything you don't want to share.  If you don't want to answer questions, you can just post whatever introduction you want.  Are you coming from Cohost?  Find your Cohost friends here with a shorter template.  You may use both if you wish.  

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Find Your Cohost Friends

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This post is especially for those folks coming to Dreamwidth from Cohost, who may wish to reconnect with other people they know from that venue.

Cohost is closing. Registration shut down on September 9 when the closure was announced. It will go read-only on October 1, 2024 and disappear entirely at the end of 2024. See "Cohost News" for more on this topic and what you can do about it. Use the "Introduction / Friending Meme" to say hello and meet new people here.

It's a good idea to make a farewell post on Cohost NOW while you still can (up through September 30, 2024). Tell people where else to find you online, whether your blog is moving or closing, and any other important details.

If you want to preserve your Cohost content, one thing you can do is save your farewell post, profile, or other pages using Wayback, Ghost, or other archive sites. This helps you and your friends remember what it looked like before it disappears. If you have art or fiction on Cohost, you may want to consider sites like AO3 that specialize in those materials. Many people are copying their Cohost content to Dreamwidth too.

Use this post to tell folks that you are on Dreamwidth, what your Cohost account was, and who you're looking for here that you knew back there. You can use the template in a comment below, on your blog, or anywhere else you find it useful. This one is shorter than the more detailed "Introduction / Friending Meme" is.

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