[dcoupl]

Couchsurfing.org may be worth a try. They have a website that I used to find other people to hangout with via their "connect with other travelers" feature. I have used it in San Francisco and Bay Area as well as traveling the world such as in Thailand and it worked great for me at that time. It really did work to find and connect with real people and events in person for a given locale. I see now that they are requesting a donation to even use their website now so YMMV.

[monksy]

No it's not.

CS has moved to a pay to use model and they're putting pressure on their hosts. A lot of people have dropped their account.

[tasuki]

Whatever happened to Couchsurfing, it ain't good. I log in to my account, and I'm greeted with an option between two ways to send them money. I click "Manage Account" and the options there are "Data Export" and "Deactivate or Delete". Thanks for all the good times, but screw them for behaving like this.

[arp242]

Have you used it post-COVID? Because in my experience the platform more or less died during COVID (although it had a long sickness before that).