It's over for you all.
cohost became read-only as of October 1, 2024. The site will be fully shut down at the end of the year. Until then, you can use the site but can’t do anything that isn’t reading (following, liking posts, making or editing posts, sending asks, updating your profile, etc).
This is why I have taken it upon myself to archive my cohost posts. I was active on the site since July 2023 and the posts I made were silly and nothing but they made me smile and I'd hate to lose that. So, welcome to my personal archive of "chost posts"
It's over for you all.
That is all.... I'm sorry you had to find out this way.
Unfortunately for you, this creature only speaks in the silent soundscape that dwells within the darkest parts of your mind.
Just gonna scroll past without saying Gleezorblo?
Why don'tcha kick back and enjoy an ice cold Pepsi® with your ol' pal, Cloud Strife?
[Click the title to see a version of this post in my "rambles section" it has extra images and replies from other users, thanks]
I don't know how many users on Cohost are in that middle/high school age range, and even if you're not in that range still take this to heart. Please don't ever delete anything you've created. As someone who did ms paint doodles and made shitty youtube videos back when I was younger, I wish I still had them. I was a fool and did what I assume a lot of people end up doing and deleting everything because you feel like it's too "cringe" or whatever.
Now that I'm reaching my 30s, I regret it. I regret it everyday of my life. You have no idea how much I wish I still had my shitty youtube videos or silly ms paint doodles. I swear I must've had like, 30-40 videos on youtube that were just dumbshit like a bunch of pictures set to music or just like 10 minutes of random gameplay from some game I played on an emulator. Pretty much all them edited in Windows Movie Maker. I had a deviantart gallery full of just the most random and silly ms paint doodles. Just the most shit child train of thought drawings I did because I was bored and had way more dedication than I do now.
With getting older and not being able to remember stuff you did as a kid, I wish I could look back on any of these. It's all lost to time now. I have a select handful of ms paint drawings by happenstance because I was a freak and uploaded them to some of the weirdest places... but everything else is either dead links or just gone. So just a message from someone who made that mistake. I urge you to not delete your creative works, no matter how "cringe" they may seem now.
My time with Cohost was short but fun. The only way I could describe it is "cozy" which I know sounds silly to say about any social media. Obviously there is the reasonable part of my brain that knows that anything that goes on long enough would fall to the same issues as every other site. Not to say it didn't already have issues. Obviously the personalization was very lacking and there was an issue with moderation since the team was so small...
But none of that matters now. All we have now are the memories we made. I made this archive for myself and I hope other users did the same. It's kind of fitting that my last major post was about archiving.
O7 Chost.... it was fun while it lasted. I'm sad to see it not work out. Out of all the current options I've tried, it was genuinely the only one that felt fun to post on. Until next time.....