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DISASTER
The new website (May 2026 redesign) is a disaster. Basic features that defined the platform like setting your hosting availability to 'Not Accepting Guests' are buried. The UI is like a dating app. Filters are gone. It's harder to find real hosts and easier to get spammed. But this redesign is just the latest symptom of a longer rot. Couchsurfing was founded on genuine cultural exchange, opening your home to a stranger because you believed in human connection and paying it forward. That spirit has been dying for years, replaced by people using it as a free hotel or a hookup app. The platform let that happen. Now they've built a UI that makes it worse. People should look up Couchers.org or BeWelcome. They seem to be trying to preserve what Couchsurfing abandoned.



