Feature Updates on Trustroots Ideas

You Can Now Share Your Experiences With Members

Tue, 27 Apr 2021 05:01:00 +0200

From today on, you can share and write about your experiences with other Trustroots members!

Trustroots has been growing at a steady pace since 2014, and Trustroots members can tend to share a common mindset. A vast majority of the community are helpful, kind, responsible and respectful to others and when there are disputes, our large support team is there to help.

That said, sometimes members would like to understand before requesting a place to stay with a member, what experiences did this Trustrooter have so far? What kind of experiences have others had with them? Will our expectations from meeting fellow members likely be met with this person?

Trustroots Can Now Be Translated

Mon, 15 Mar 2021 08:32:16 +0100

Hallo, Hola, Hello, Salut, Ciao,

There’s a lot going on behind the screens, and we have volunteers working on different fields to improve our platform. One of those fields is translating Trustroots to multiple languages, and we’re happy to say we’re releasing translated Trustroots in five of those languages!

From this day forward, you can select one of these languages, and instead of English, most wording will change in your selected language. Of course, our goal is to offer more languages, but for that: We need your help! If you’re interested, please join our volunteer team. We’ll help you get started.

Trustroots Changelog — December/January

Sat, 06 Feb 2021 16:43:24 +0100

Let’s see if this becomes a habit, but the idea is to highlight all the small improvements and continuous efforts that go on Trustroots, thanks to all our volunteers! 👏

The search got a bigger upgrade under the hood — it’s now smoother and faster, especially on mobile. Visuals got refreshed a bit, but primarily this change will also unlock any future improvements to Search. Stay tuned!

Already visited dots are now a bit transparent, and currently selected offer is black.

Decolonising Into Circles

Tue, 04 Aug 2020 11:02:44 +0200

You might be wondering why Trustroots is changing the name of Tribes. In this collaborative article we will try to explain what’s behind the change and why this matters. It has mainly been written by Mariyano, a Brazilian backpacker currently under lockdown in Buenos Aires due to the pandemic, and Martin A. who spent a few years travelling before finding relative stability by the European Alps. But as you will see below there has also been plenty of discussion among the Trustroots volunteers, so all in all it’s a rather communal project.

Trustroots goes invitation only

Sat, 25 Mar 2017 17:56:42 +0100

From today, new members can only join Trustroots by invitation.

Why?

Trustroots is growing, we’ve just passed 25'000 members. We recently issued our first member ban. Until now Trustroots has been focused around the hitchhiking community. As we grow, we want to manage the transition to a wider audience carefully.

Right now we simply don’t have the features to support a diverse audience of people with differing values. We want to build on the tribes* feature, and add a whole lot more to help with this. But, for now, we feel that it’s better to keep our growth more focused.

Message thread feedback

Wed, 23 Mar 2016 16:39:14 +0100

New feature! You can now give private feedback about messages you receive.

We’re going towards “references type” features this spring. We will be collecting the data, do testing and figure out how to guide people towards better messages and full profiles. Things are likely to change along the way while we figure this out as more data comes in.

Now,

go give feedback