Lang-8 (2006 - 2024)

lang-8 ran on reciprocity. you posted a paragraph in a language you were learning and a native speaker struck through your phrasing and wrote theirs beside it. you paid that back by doing the same for somebody writing in the language you grew up in. it held over 750,000 accounts and around 90 languages at its peak, run out of tokyo by a company small enough that the spam bots eventually…