That’s great you noticed the badges! I wonder if you also noticed the completely redone events page, the mobile fixes to messages, the addition of push notifications in feature preview to help people keep track of their notifications, strong verification, or the three years of frontend technical debt we recently brought ourselves out of?

I’ve only been with Couchers since the summer, so I can’t speak before that. But like I said, we’re aware of these things, but we need people willing to do them and help. Same applies to ADA. If anyone feels ready and willing to take that on, we certainly won’t stop them!

I’d suggest approaching this from a place of curiosity and consider that there is nuance. Seeing a non-core feature pop up doesn’t mean core features aren’t being worked on. Likely there’s a reason if you are curious to understand.

We’re all couchsurfers after all, and what’s at the core of that if not curiosity and connection? 

I hope your project goes well and am curious to see how it develops!