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by graeme
4574 days ago
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What changed exactly? I've been couchsurfing since 2008, and hosting since 2012. I've been hearing a lot about the changes that came with for profit management. But I haven't noticed any difference. Granted I never went to many local meetups. I'm genuinely curious: could you be more specific about what negatives you've noticed? |
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1. This one I haven't experienced so much being male, but I've heard from it enough to believe it. When it was more niche, there were pretty much just travellers on the site. Now that it's quite more mainstream, there are a lot of guys just trying to pick up chicks on it. I personally don't care if two CSrs hook up, but I've heard enough stories of male hosts either being too aggressive with their female guests or just plain old kicking them out when they realize they won't sleep with them, to make me cringe. I think the landscape for single women using CS has changed.
2. The new website is absolutely horrible, less usable, lacking lots more info (they deleted the old wikis with tons of user-generated content), the groups are less useful, etc. All this is kind of funny because I used to dislike the old one. Now all I wish is they rolled back to it. I just don't know what the hell they were thinking with all these changes after they raised investment.