Exchange

One box: say what you offer or what you are looking for

The Post page is a single box. Write it the way you would say it — “looking for a place to stay in Lisbon next weekend, two of us” — and the site reads the kind, the place, the dates and how many of you from the sentence, shows them as chips you can correct, and asks only for what is missing. Nothing is guessed by an AI: it is a word list and the table of cities. What your travel profile already says about you is not asked again.

Three kinds are open today — a place to stay, something to do, company on a trip — each as “I'm offering” or “I'm looking for”. The first time you post or reply you answer 4 short questions about the rules; you can try as often as you need.

What a post says

The kind, a city or district — never an address — with a distance around it, the dates, how many of you (up to 6), a few fixed options you tick, who may reply (the same choices as a home card, plus “only members who already have a reference”), and a note of up to 600 characters without links, email addresses or phone numbers. Costs are one of four fixed answers: Costs: agree later · Costs shared · Costs on me · Costs on the other person. There is no price field: nothing is paid through the site, and EduFabTech is not a party to what the two of you agree. You can also place the post in one of your circles, and keep it to that circle’s members if you wish.

Posts are shown only to signed-in members; visitors see counts. You can have 2 open posts of each kind and 6 in all. A post or a reply about a place to stay needs an account at least 7 days old; plans and travel company do not. A post is deleted 90 days after its last day.

Replies, and asking a host directly

You reply to a post with a note of 20 to 600 characters — one open reply per post. Only the member who posted sees it: nobody else sees the text or even how many replies there are, and staff read a reply only if the member who received it reports it. Accepting a reply opens a conversation between the two of you with the reply as its first message; declining opens nothing.

It also works the other way round. Hosts near a place lists members whose home card is open, and you can ask one of them directly. What you can ask for follows the status the host chose:

• Hosting — guests can ask to stay
• Day host — come by for the day, no overnight
• Meet only — a coffee or a walk, not my home
• Not right now

A host who is not available right now is not listed, and nobody is owed a reply.

Small groups: “I’m in”

For something to do and for company on a trip, the number on the post is the whole group including you — two to 6. Others join with one click (“I’m in”) or in their own words. The post shows how many places are left, and once the group is full nobody else can reply and no more replies can be accepted. There is no group chat: each acceptance is a conversation between two members.

Who’s going, and radar

On your own trip or post, and on a city page, Who’s going shows the members who announced the same city for days that overlap yours — built only from open trips and posts that every member can already find. It works both ways: you see names because you announced your own dates; a member who has not sees a number.

Radar watches one distance around where you live and covers everything inside it — trips, posts and events — in one list. You choose how often it may notify you (every day, every 3 days, once a week), and it does so only when something is new.

From a reply to a plan

Once a reply is accepted, either of you can turn it into a plan with dates, and the other confirms. After the dates have passed you both say whether it happened and may write each other a reference — the same plans, blind references and cancellation rules as everywhere else on the site. References and trust · The rules