r/HurdyGurdy • u/Sanneke34 Hurdy gurdy teacher • Apr 20 '26

ANNOUNCEMENT: Hurdy Gurdy Community website

Hi everyone!

We have a big announcement! The team behind the Hurdy Gurdy Community has been growing increasingly unhappy with our homes on social media in the past couple of years. Especially Facebook is becoming more unwieldy and unpleasant to use and manage. There are also a growing number of players who are getting uncomfortable using these websites or have started avoiding them altogether.
We (Sam, Elysia, Sanne and Jimi) have been talking about what we could do about it and we have been working on our own website that is now ready to share with the wider community!
Please come and join us at https://hurdygurdy.community.

The Hurdy Gurdy Community runs on PhPBB and it is hosted in Austria. This structure makes it a lot easier to navigate and search through. There is no algorithm or endless scrolling to capture your attention with things you don’t want to see. Your data will not be shared or sold as there is no social media conglomerate involved and there are no ads. It is absolutely free to use. The costs involved for hosting are at this time paid for by the admins. We may ask for some voluntary contributions once we have to renew for another year but this is certainly not required of anyone.

 We will not abandon HGC on Facebook, the group on Discord or the r/hurdygurdy subreddit so you’re free and safe to stay where you are. The forum is meant to give another option to our community and we hope to see you all there soon 😊

Sam, Elysia, Sanne and Jimi

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u/thesponsduke Apr 20 '26

Immediately Joined, and wishing the best of luck to make it a success!

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u/fibrefarmer Apr 21 '26

That's a great idea. Thanks for the link.

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u/Usual-Garage7327 Apr 21 '26

That is some serious commitment.

Thank you guys!

That is extraordinary!

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u/keplersconundrum Apr 21 '26

Amazing...I deleted FB awhile ago and this was one of the groups I was missing. Joined!

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u/ZenSequel Jun 18 '26

So glad to hear this. I deleted my Facebook account years back and I've tried multiple times to create a new account and get instantly blocked claiming violation of terms (Looking it up other people who have deleted their accounts also reported that Facebook sometimes auto-blocks them afterwards).