Terms

Who runs this site

EduFabTech (edufabtech.com) is operated by Mustafa Pat, an individual based in Istanbul, Türkiye: Silahtarağa Caddesi No 161, Daire 5, Eyüpsultan, Istanbul, Türkiye. Articles and news are published under the name EduFabTech. To reach the operator — including for legal notices — write to hello@edufabtech.com or use the contact form. The full legal notice has the details.

Who may use the site

Anyone can read the site. To create an account you must be at least 16 years old; by creating one you confirm that you are. Some parts are for adults only and say so where you turn them on: hosting and staying with members, trip announcements, offers, plans, friend matching, tables and Exchange ask you to confirm that you are 18 or older, and that confirmation is required before the first use. If we learn that an account belongs to someone under 16, we close it and delete its data. A parent or guardian who believes this has happened can tell us.

Accounts

One account per person. You are responsible for what is posted from it. Accounts that exist to spam, impersonate or harass are removed without notice.

The community guidelines say how members are expected to treat one another; they are part of these terms. How reports and removals work describes what happens when something is reported, what you are told when your content is removed, and how to appeal.

Posting rights can be withdrawn for one part of the site on its own: an account stopped from posting listings, or from sending messages, can still read, take part in the forum and vote in polls.

What you post

You keep ownership of what you post, including photographs. By posting you grant us the right to display it on the site and in the archive. When you upload a photograph you confirm that you took it or own it, and that you may let us display it here.

Comments under articles are open to members and shown to everyone — in full to members, as a short excerpt to visitors. They are plain text, cannot be edited, and can be deleted by their author; a moderator can hide a comment that breaks the rules and tells the author which rule. A member stopped from the forum cannot comment either.

Do not post material you do not have the right to share. A listing publishes the contact details you choose to give — posting someone else’s phone number, address or photograph is still forbidden.

Listings

Listings are between members. We are not a party to any transaction, do not verify goods, employers or accommodation, and cannot mediate disputes. Use ordinary caution.

EduFabTech is never a party to payments between members. We never ask for card, bank or wallet details, we hold no funds for anyone, we take no commission and we sell no placement. Anyone who asks you to pay through EduFabTech for a listing, a stay, a job or anything arranged between members is a scammer. (Readers who want to support the site itself do so only through the channels on /support — see Supporting EduFabTech.)

A listing runs for seven days. You can renew it at any time, and each renewal gives a fresh seven days. When a listing ends it stays readable for thirty days — so you can bring it back — and is then deleted together with its photographs.

A listing can also be a wanted post: you describe what you are looking for, and the price is your budget. The same rules apply to it. A wanted post does not show an exact spot on the map, and a stay record can only be kept on a place that is offered.

You may not post:

Weapons, ammunition and parts for them
Drugs, medicines, supplements and anything sold as a cure
Tobacco, vaping products and alcohol
Live animals
Counterfeit, replica or unlicensed copies
Stolen, recalled or otherwise unlawfully held goods
Adult services and adult material
Financial services, loans, crypto offers and “investment opportunities”
Personal data, accounts, credentials or identity documents
Recruitment that charges the applicant anything at all
Anything unlawful where you are, or where the other person is

Jobs. No job listing may charge the applicant a fee, or demand payment for training, equipment, travel, visas or placement, and no listing may discriminate on protected grounds.

Events. An event runs until it ends — not for seven days — and cannot be renewed; to run it again, post it again. Give its real date, time and place. The venue and address you enter are public, so leave out a home address and share it in messages. Put the joining link of an online event behind your contact, not in the description. “Free entry” means nobody pays anything to attend. An event can only be offered, not posted as a wanted post.

Who answers for an event. The member who posts an event is responsible for the event: that it is real, that they will be there, and that the details are true. Co-organisers they invite accept the same responsibility when they join. EduFabTech does not organise, host, check or vouch for any event, and takes no part in it. Places and conditions are information, not a booking: saying you are going is a heads-up to the organiser, and nobody pays anything through the site. After an event ends, organisers may confirm who came and attendees may say whether it happened as described; small trust points follow only when both agree. A moderator can stop a member from posting or co-organising events if an event turns out not to be what it said. Running an event again creates a new event of its own: the organiser gives the same responsibility statement again, and nothing repeats by itself.

Spaces. A space — a workshop, maker room, study desk, studio or meeting room — is listed for the hour, day, week or month and runs for seven days like any listing. Nothing is booked through this site: there is no calendar, no reservation and no payment here, and the times and the price are agreed between the two of you. List only a space you have the right to let. The capacity, opening hours, equipment and features you give are public and must be true. The host sets the safety rules and shows how the machines and tools are used; nobody should use equipment they have not been shown. Never pay to “hold” a space you have not seen.

Stays. Accommodation listings may not discriminate. Never pay a deposit before you have seen the place. Dates you agree with a host can be kept as a stay record — a note, not a booking.

Contact details. Whatever you put in the contact field is shown to any signed-in member who asks for it. It is never printed in the page itself. If you choose “Messages on EduFabTech”, no contact detail is published at all: members write to you here, and you decide what to share.

Businesses. If you are trading, recruiting or letting as a business you must say so, and your trading name, address and contact are published with the listing. Buying from a business can give you rights that buying from a private seller does not.

Reporting and removal. Anyone can report a listing, with or without an account. We remove listings that break these rules without notice; the person who posted it is told which rule was broken and can appeal through the contact page. Listing rights can be withdrawn on their own.

Staying safe. Meet in a public place, check what you are buying before you pay, and never send money in advance.

Messages

Members can send each other private messages. Use them to talk about a listing or a genuine question — not to advertise, to send the same text to many people, or to keep writing to someone who has not answered you. Messages are between members: we are not a party to anything agreed in them. A message cannot be edited or taken back once it is sent.

Nobody writes to you on behalf of EduFabTech in private messages, and no payment between members passes through messages. EduFabTech never asks for support in a message either. Anyone who asks you in a message to pay through EduFabTech, to use an “EduFabTech escrow” or “protection” service, to pay a deposit before you have seen a place, to pay to get a job, or to share a code you were sent, is a scammer. Report the message.

To keep this usable, new accounts can start only a few conversations a day and can message members directly — rather than about a listing — once the account is a week old or has three forum posts. You can send at most three messages to someone who has not replied, and links can be shared only once they reply. Links that imitate this site’s address, hide where they go, or point to a bare IP address can never be sent.

You can block any member at any time; neither of you can then message the other. You can report any message you receive; a moderator then sees that message and up to ten before it. If several members report messages from the same account, that account cannot start new conversations until a person has looked at it, for at most 30 days — this happens automatically and is lifted if the reports were unfounded. Messaging rights can be withdrawn on their own; we tell the account holder which rule was broken, and they can appeal through the contact page.

Stay records

In a conversation about a stay listing, the guest and the host can keep a stay record: one of you proposes an arriving day and a leaving day, and the record exists only once the other confirms exactly those days. The guest is always the member who started the conversation; the host is the member who posted the listing. A stay record only notes that you both agreed on those dates. It is not a booking, a reservation or a contract, EduFabTech is not a party to it and cannot enforce it, and it holds no price and no payment. Anything else you arrange — money, keys, house rules, cancellation — is between the two of you. We never send “booking confirmations”; one that claims to come from us is fake.

Dates are recorded before or during a stay, not afterwards: the arriving day can be today or up to a year ahead, and a record covers 1 to 180 nights. Proposed dates that are not confirmed within 14 days, or before the leaving day, lapse. Only one set of proposed dates can wait for an answer in a conversation at a time.

Either of you can cancel a confirmed stay on your own, or agree new dates that replace it, until the day before arrival — the exact time is shown next to the stay, measured so that it holds in every time zone. From the arriving day until 14 days after the leaving day, either of you can say the stay did not happen; if you both say so, it is set aside. Otherwise the record stays exactly as you confirmed it. Blocking a member, a moderator closing the conversation, a stop on messages or listings, or closing an account prevents new stay records but never undoes one you both confirmed.

A stay record is visible only to the two of you; the reviews you write after it are public. Confirming dates you did not agree, or using stay records to mislead anyone, breaks these rules.

Stay reviews

After a stay you both confirmed, the guest can review the host and the host can review the guest: one to five stars and a short text, for 14 days after the leaving day. Reviews are blind — neither of you can read the other’s until both are written or the 14 days are over — and then both are published together. A review cannot be edited or taken back. Blocking a member, a moderator closing the conversation, a stop on messages or listings, or closing your own account never takes away the other member’s right to review a stay you both confirmed, and never removes a review that was written. Reviews about a closed account would not be shown anywhere, so none can be written about one.

Write about the stay itself, honestly and from your own experience. Do not include links, email addresses, phone numbers or anyone’s private details, do not insult, threaten or discriminate, and never offer, ask for or trade a review — not for money, a discount or a better review in return. Moderators remove a review that breaks these rules and tell its author which rule. A stay that appears not to have taken place — for example two accounts run by one person — is set aside: neither of its reviews is shown, and both members are told why. EduFabTech does not check what happened during a stay; a review is the opinion of the member who wrote it.

Exchange

The exchange lets members post what they offer or look for — a place to stay, something to do, company on a trip — and ask a host directly to stay or meet. Everything here is between members: EduFabTech is not a party to anything you arrange, holds no money, promises no stay, no companion and no outcome, and cannot settle a disagreement. Costs are whatever the two of you agree; a post says only whether costs are shared, on one side or still to be agreed, and nothing is ever paid through the site. A post is not a booking, a reply is not a contract, and accepting a reply only opens a conversation.

You must be 18 or older. Do not put an address, a phone number, an email address or a link in a post, a reply or a request — share those in the conversation once you have agreed. A post must describe something real; a post that advertises, sells, looks for dates or misleads people about who you are breaks these rules and is removed, and you are told which rule it broke. Members who accept a reply are asked, once the dates have passed, whether it happened, and may write each other a reference; the same cancellation rules as for plans apply. Who may reply to your post is your choice, and nobody is owed a reply.

House and pet sitting. A sitter looks after a home, pets or plants while the member who lives there is away, and stays there in return. It is an arrangement between two members: not employment, not a service, and nothing is paid through the site. EduFabTech does not check, insure or vouch for a home, an animal or a sitter, and is not a party to what you agree. The member who lives there stays responsible for their home and their animals and for telling the sitter what they need; the sitter for the care they agreed to give. Ask for a sitter only for a home you have the right to let someone stay in.

Home swaps. In a swap two members stay in each other’s homes, at the same time or at different times, as they agree. It is not a rental and not a booking: nothing is paid through the site, and EduFabTech does not check, insure or vouch for a home or for the member who stays in it. Each of you remains responsible for your own home and for the one you stay in, and for what your lease, your landlord or your insurer allows. Offer only a home you have the right to let someone stay in. That two posts fit each other is a calculation from places and dates, not a recommendation.

Rides. A ride is a member sharing a journey they are making anyway, with a seat to spare. It is not a taxi, not a transport service and not a booking: there is no fare, nothing is paid through the site, and how you share the costs of the journey is between the two of you. Do not use the exchange to carry passengers for profit. EduFabTech does not check, insure or vouch for a driver, a licence, a vehicle or a passenger, and is not a party to the journey. Whoever drives is responsible for driving legally and for the vehicle and its insurance; everyone in the car is responsible for their own decision to travel. A post names two cities or districts and a day — never an address; agree where you meet in the conversation. That two ride posts fit each other is a calculation from places and days, not a recommendation.

Language partners. A language post is two members practising a language together, in person or online. It is not teaching, tutoring or a course, and nothing is paid through the site. A level shown on a post or a profile is the member’s own estimate: EduFabTech does not test or certify anyone. If you practise online, the call or chat happens wherever the two of you choose, outside this site, and is your own responsibility. That two posts fit each other is a calculation from languages, places and dates, not a recommendation.

Circles

Circles gather members around a country, a larger city or an interest. They are free and open: no fee, no approval, no closed circle, and nothing is ever paid through the site. A circle is not a club, an organisation or an event; EduFabTech does not run, host or vouch for one, and the member who starts a circle answers for the description they write. Do not put an address, a phone number, an email address or a link in a description. A circle that advertises, sells, looks for dates, harasses or discriminates is closed, and the member who started it is told which rule it broke and can appeal. Members who run a circle may not pressure or exclude anyone, or collect anything from members. What you learn about who is in a circle is for you as a member of it; do not pass it on.

Tables

A table is an invitation to meet, and nothing more. EduFabTech chooses who is invited from what members put on their friends card; it does not vouch for anyone at the table. It suggests no venue, books nothing and takes no money: the place is chosen by the members who are going, and whatever you spend that evening is your own. Treat it like meeting strangers — a public place, and tell someone where you are going. You must be 18 or older. A place suggestion is the name of a place only: no link, no address, no phone number. Saying no to an invitation, or not answering, costs nothing. If you said you were in and cannot come after all, leave the table so the others know. Harassment, discrimination or unwanted advances at a table end your access to tables and may end your account; you can report a member from their profile. What you learn about who sat at a table is for you; do not pass it on.

After the evening you can say whether you were there and who else was. Tick only members who really were: trust points given for a table that did not happen are taken back and may end your access to tables. There are no references for a table, and not coming costs no points. “Keep in touch” opens a conversation only when both of you ticked it; from there the usual rules for messages apply.

Gradebook

The gradebook records grades you enter yourself. EduFabTech does not verify them, asks for no transcript and is not a record of your school; an average shown on a profile is marked “self-reported” and must not be presented as an official document. Enter only your own grades. Statistics built from gradebooks are anonymous, use numbers only and never rank members by name. Entering false grades to distort those statistics may end your access to the gradebook.

Games

Games are for fun and practice. There are no prizes, no stakes and no money. Play your own rounds yourself: no scripts, bots, tools that play for you or second accounts. Scores are worked out on our server from what your browser reports; results that look impossible are kept off the leaderboards automatically, and moderators may remove any result that looks unfair or block an account from the leaderboards. A challenge is between two members; do not use it to pester someone who declines.

Books and shelves

The book archive is a shared reference: add only real books with details you believe to be correct, and do not paste in text you do not have the right to share. Reviews are your own honest opinion of a book you have read — no links, no advertising, no attacks on people. Marking a copy as shared tells other members you have one; it is not an offer to sell, and no payment of any kind passes through this site. Moderators may hide a review that breaks these rules or the community guidelines. A loan note on your shelf is a reminder between two members, not a contract: the site does not hold a deposit, chase a book or settle a dispute about it. A circle's book of the month is a suggestion; nobody is obliged to read it, and the discussion is an ordinary public forum topic under the forum rules. Donating a book to a library is between you and the library.

Friends

Friend matching introduces members to each other; it does not vouch for anyone. Treat a match like meeting a stranger: meet in a public place first, tell someone where you are going, and keep your messages on the site. Nobody may ask another member for money through it. A profile must be your own and truthful; you must be 18 or older. Harassment, discrimination and unwanted advances end your access to matching and may end your account. What a member shares with you as a friend — private details they chose to open — is for you alone; passing it on is a breach of these terms.

Hosting and travelling together

Members can describe their home on a home card and, as the travel features open, host other members, meet them or travel with them. This part of the site is for people aged 18 or over, and it rests on one rule: hosting on EduFabTech is free. Everyday costs — food, cleaning, transport — are shared, and how you share them is between the two of you. EduFabTech promises and guarantees nothing: not a place to stay, not a host, not a guest, not a price, not that anyone is who they say they are, and not that a visit will go well. We are not a party to anything members arrange with each other, we hold no money and we cannot settle a disagreement about costs.

A home card has no price field and must not be used to rent out a room — a room for rent belongs in Listings. Do not put an address, a phone number, an email address or a link on a home card; share those in the conversation, once you have both agreed. A host chooses whom to welcome into their home — by gender, age range, what a guest does and how many guests — and nobody is owed a stay. A card that misleads guests about who lives at home or where they would sleep breaks these rules. Photos on a home card show the place — a room, the kitchen, the street — not people who have not agreed to appear, and nothing that gives away the address; they are shown only to a traveller you offer to host.

You are responsible for your own safety and your own decisions: meet in a public place first, tell someone where you are going, and keep your messages on the site. Report anyone who asks for money to host you, pressures you, or is not who their profile says.

Trips. A trip tells members where you are going and when, so that people who live there can offer to host you, meet you or invite you to something. Announce only journeys you really intend to make, describe everyone who is travelling truthfully — your own details come from your travel profile — and keep phone numbers, email addresses, links and addresses out of it. A trip is not an advertisement, a request for paid accommodation or a way to look for dates. You can have two trips running at once, even for the same nights — a connecting route or two candidate cities — but then both are marked as an alternative route, and once you accept an offer you are expected to close the trip you drop. Moderators remove a trip that breaks these rules and tell its owner which rule; the owner can appeal from the contact page.

Offers. If you live where a traveller is going, you can offer to host them, meet them or invite them to something. Offer only what you really mean to give; to offer a place to stay you need a home card that is open to guests and an account at least seven days old. An offer is not a booking and binds nobody: the traveller chooses whether to accept, and either of you can change your mind. Accepting an offer only opens a conversation. Do not use offers to advertise, to ask for money, to look for dates or to pressure anyone, and do not offer again to a traveller who has declined. A traveller can report an offer; moderators may stop a member's trips and offers.

Plans and references. After an offer is accepted, the two of you can turn what you agreed into a plan: a stay, a meeting or an event, and the days. A plan is confirmed when both say yes. It is your word to each other, not a booking or a contract, and no money is involved. If you cancel a confirmed plan less than three days before it starts, or do not show up, trust points are deducted and you cannot confirm new plans for seven days — thirty after repeated cancellations. The same rule applies to travellers and hosts alike; the member who did not cancel is never penalised. When a plan is over, both of you say whether it happened; if your answers differ, a moderator decides and may apply the no-show penalty. After a plan that happened, each of you may write one honest reference about the other. References are sealed until both are written or two weeks pass, cannot be changed, and may be removed only by a moderator for breaking these rules. A reference that is positive makes you a voucher: if that member later gets a negative reference or cancels at the last minute, you lose part of the points your reference gave them. Do not write references for plans that did not happen, and do not trade references. You can appeal a penalty or a removed reference from the contact page.

The law of the place you are in applies — entry and visa rules, any duty to register a guest with the authorities, and the rules of a tenancy or a building. Following it is up to the host and the guest; everything else is whatever the two of you agree. EduFabTech does not issue invitation letters, proof of accommodation or any document for a visa, and a home card or a message on this site is not one.

Supporting EduFabTech

EduFabTech is free to read and to use, and it stays that way. Readers who want to help pay for its development, hosting and maintenance can support it voluntarily through the independent payment platforms listed on /support. Those channels are the only places support is collected.

Support buys nothing editorial. It buys no article, topic, placement, review, extra poll vote or moderation decision. Everything we publish stays free and keeps its address. Supporters get a badge on their profile and, only if they choose, their name on the supporters list.
Payments are handled by the platform, under its own terms. EduFabTech never sees or stores your card or bank details, and holds no funds. Cancellations and refunds follow the platform's rules.
Linking is optional. If a payment is linked to your account (because you paid while signed in, or used the same email address), we receive only the platform's record of the support — never payment details — and use it for the badge and the list. You can take your name off the list at any time.
It is not a charitable donation. Support goes to an independent publication run by an individual and is not tax-deductible.
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Accuracy

We work hard to source every claim, but articles can still be wrong. If you find an error, send the source and we will correct it visibly.

Changes

These terms may change as the site grows. Material changes will be noted on this page with a new date.

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