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--- 2435211
I'm going to be in Europe for a few weeks and was looking into couchsurfing. How is it? Should I just cough up the money and stay at a hostel?
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It's dead.
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Just consider it bedsurfing to decide if it's for you
--- 2435297
You basically have to pay to be a member to get it and it's been dead for a while.
>Should I just cough up the money and stay at a hostel?
Yes because couch surfing has always been about interactions with the host, no one here on 4chan is willing to do that. It's not just a free bed
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>>2435230
Really..? 

Heard some people recommend it as a pretty neat way to travel some stretches due to there often being nice people on there back then (-21) there could be at least a couple of thousands available in not that big european cities.

I mean I had heard about it way back when it was new but haven't had time to try it so was kind of pleasantly surprised when other travelers where mentioning it.

>>2435297
What? I knew they started this thing where you have to make a profile and all then you get reviews, stars or whatever but I thought it was still free though despite all of that was about to say nonsense but well new stuff which can probably be a good thing

I've heard that some hosts just gets you the bed and that's it which could kind of suck while a lot are more social which is well a good reason for trying it in the first place
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>>2435306
>What? I knew they started this thing where you have to make a profile and all then you get reviews, stars or whatever but I thought it was still free though despite all of that was about to say nonsense but well new stuff which can probably be a good thing

Legacy accounts are still free, new accounts are "free" but it's basically impossible to get a night even with past history these days without the paid Verified :) account. You're better off paying for a hostel unless you're going to link all social media to this thing+stay fairly active.
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>>2435307
I link nothing! 

No but all joking aside I might give it a try at some point but I highly doubt that I will be paying for anything and I most certainly won't link anything isn't it more than enough to visit their webpage and get stuck with a barrage of cookies like everywhere else.

Heard it could be hard to get the first night but as long as you write an ok message and dont look like a serial killer it wasn't supposed to be that hard and once you got the first it was supposed to be easier to get other ones but you mean KNJTSGit isn't that easy even with past history nowadays :(
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>>2435211 (OP)
Lots of "nudist" faggots who just want to host you so they can eat dinner with you naked
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>>2435315
If it happens to be a good looking woman then I for one wouldn't really mind and either way you're the other persons home so...
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>>2435323
>If it happens to be a good looking woman

You're so naive
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>>2435326
I was sort of joking hence the "if it happens to be"
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>>2435334
Okay
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Covid killed couchsurfing. The app wasn't great in the last couple years anyways. Once the poos and mudslimes discovered it, it was over. It had a good run though, and I had some fun times.
>>2435315
This happened to me in Zagreb.
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It got killed by a few things
- Dudes using it to worm their way into some pussy. A lot of hosts were just guys after pussy who reject anybody not female
- Decreasing guest quality. More sketchy types who can't afford. A place to stay instead of people looking for more of a social experience
- A few high-profile rapes
- CS.com changing to a paid model
- COVID as the nail in the coffin.
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>>2435407
>Dudes using it to worm their way into some pussy.
True. A lot of faggots were using it as a hookup app and scared off legit good people. 
>CS.com changing to a paid model 
>COVID as the nail in the coffin.
This happened at the same time, and was the final death blow.
You can't ignore the issue with the brown people shitting things up though. At least in Europe, it was really bad. Abdul or Rakish would ALWAYS be on and spam EVERYONE with requests. I think there was a block function, but it was useless because the thirdies would always find a way to join the big groups on Friday or Saturday night, making things awkward. I remember a girl showed me her requests and the same brown guys would send her requests every day non-stop. We had a good laugh, but those niggers really got annoying.
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I feel sorry for the/trv/ zoom-zooms who won't experience CS at its prime. The frens, puss, adventures and network I got from it 10 years ago was unbelievable
>Open monster can
Those were the days...
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>>2435211 (OP)

Back then 99% of the hosts were dudes looking to fuck, most of which were your average internet pervert addicted to porn/webcam sites/on sex offender lists.

Half the users were dudes getting constantly rejected by hosts because they weren't female and the other half were naive/dumb or slutty college girls of questionable looks and hygiene trying to find cheap accommodations while travelling abroad. Many dumb enough to expect a free room while the other half kind of expected that they'd have to fuck to get the room.

It's early days were okay actually, since you met chill hosts/families who didn't have weird motives and many were open to give you tips around the city, make you visit, even cook you nice local food. But that was before all the perverts came in and killed the scene.
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>>2435407
>- Dudes using it to worm their way into some pussy. A lot of hosts were just guys after pussy who reject anybody not female

This. And this is how I used CS, too. I had sex with many girls and it was nice. Girls liked it, too, some got really attached afterwards.

I also hosted girls and 3 out of 4 cases it led to sex. Ofc, I rejected males.

It was super and then it become a paid service. Stopped using it and moved on to tinder when I travelled.
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>>2435211 (OP)
old fashioned