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Life & fun · December 1, 2014

Community as a Service focused on owners and members, not advertisers

An Internet Computer native community system with fast threads, stars, mentions, private messages, and human moderation.

Community as a Service focused on owners and members, not advertisers launched on December 1, 2014 with 16 votes and more than 75% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 11 years on.

In plain words

Xcursi is a community platform built on the Internet Computer that emphasizes threaded conversations with features like stars, mentions, private messages, and human moderation. Designed for community owners and members rather than advertisers, it offers a compact, fast interface for discussion. The system can be embedded as a widget on other sites and includes built-in moderation tools and identity management without requiring the host site to become a full forum.

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From the sources

An Internet Computer native community system with fast threads, stars, mentions, private messages, and human moderation. Stars give community-specific shorthand a home without turning every post into homework. Mentions, private messages, moderation, and thread context are built into the shape of the conversation. The widget brings threads, moderation, and identity into pages without turning the host site into a forum project. Xcursi is a modern take on the classic threaded “chatty” format: compact posts, fast replies, stars for living topic spaces, mentions, private messages, and moderation that favors community judgment over drama. It is built for the Internet Computer, which means…from xcursi.com

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