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July Forest Gathering Recap 🌲

Thanks for joining our Monthly Forest Gathering! It was great to see and hear from old and new faces on DFOS. If you didn't make it this time, rsvp here for the next one! At this weeks Forest...

Hacienda 1.7

This week is about the public side of your space — what shows, where it shows, and the controls for deciding that. (How public should a DFOS be? — Yancey's post from Monday is good companion...

How public should a DFOS be?

The past couple of weeks the DFOS squad has been discussing how public a DFOS space should be allowed to become. We’ve designed DFOS so a space can be as private as its members want. But should every...

Hacienda 1.6

Last week the calendar gave your space a rhythm and subscriptions gave it a front door. This week the spacerunner gets a control room. (The dark forests are growing — Yancey on the Metalabel blog...

200+ recommended books and articles from all of us

This week in DFOS, more big leaps forward in the product: a new dashboard for Spacerunnners, better email tools, and some significant improvements to the DFOS Shop. Week by week, ship by ship, the...

🚀 Spacekeepers, START HERE

Welcome to Spacekeepers! (formerly Dark Forest Friends). If you're building a space on DFOS, this is your home base. Find resources on spacerunning, ongoing programming, how DFOS spaces work, fellow...

Hacienda 1.5

Last week we said we were starting to think less about space and more about time. This week that thinking becomes a thing you can touch: your space now has a calendar. Below is the usual build-side...

Wayfinding in the forest

We made the forest. But how do you find your way through it? Looking at DFOS post-Hacienda, we love seeing how much people embrace the desktop metaphor as a way of expressing their vision. (Sol...

Hacienda 1.4

The store is open for business. This week your space becomes a place you can sell from — put up a product, set a price, and the work you've been making becomes something anyone can buy and take home....

Nine thoughts about DFOS

Hello from festive New York City, where Knicks fever became World Cup fever and now Pride weekend. Don’t know if we’ve ever seen the city party this much all the time. Vibes are high. We love to join...