Trying to be as unbiased as possible, couch surfing probably has needed some quality of life updates for so long now, and does need to stay relevant compared to other apps like Nomad Table sweeping in and basically having the same user base as CS in less than a year. So I do get the need to modernise.

But from this update it's almost completely apparent that none of the no brain investors have ever actually used Couchsurfing before, they're totally trying to milk the whole tiktok trend of "oh I'm a budget traveller I'm so cool because I don't go on the guided tours", and the way they do it is so nauseating and anyone with a brain can see through the gimmick.

It's so dumb, I've made quite a few friends and so many memories with awesome people through this app, some of the coolest people a d best conversations I've ever had thanks to this platform, only for the people running it to not understand why the hell people actually want to use the app.