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I run an online bookclub, and this site added such a real and cozy feel to it. Since the shurdown, we've been using Discord, but it just isn't the same. I miss our little book room.

ive used this site/app since its release, and the sudden announcement that it was shutting down was absolutely hartbreaking, this was a way for me to engage with my international friends in a comfortable place :(

My bf was driving me home from a week long trip going on 3 weeks ago (April 7, 2025) when I was telling him about here.fm and how we could use it to make a cute personalized room together. He had gotten me into a tv series that was new to me and I was gonna miss watching it together in person. But I had thought of here.fm as a better solution than discord because of the cute aesthetic appeal of the rooms and stickers and tons of other personalization options. You could even upload your own images as long as you used a separate transparent image generator for further personalization. I personally liken it to Pinterest but if it had a chat room option and you could share your screen and watch movies and tv shows on it! I had already made an account and spent hours a year previously making a cute fairycore aesthetic profile. I also convinced one other close friend of mine from discord to get an account to so we could use it together and hang out beyond just texting. I admittedly only used the site myself only a few times mostly to test it out and learn how it works. I just forgot about the site until I mentioned it to my bf just recently and my hopes and dreams were crushed in a way when I looked the site up on my phone to show him what it looked like and i discovered it had been down since the summer of last year. I've been rather disappointed ever since and it sucks that there's LITERALLY no alternatives that are anywhere close to here.fm's chat room personalization options. It sucks how everything is just for office job employees and business people to have meetings virtually. There's nothing for teens or young adults to just have fun and be creative online like this site was now. And that kinda pisses me off so I decided to sign this petition to bring here.fm back. I have low hopes this will actually do anything but I'd thought I'd try it anyway because I really liked and miss this site. Here,fm if you read this I'm begging you, please bring back your wonderful site and all it's creativity and uniqueness! Or make something better with the vast customizable chat room options like the last one! I and many others miss it a lot and miss interacting with others on it or even just hanging out on it solo! I will definitely be sharing the link to this petition to my other friend who had an account in hopes he'll sign it too. Bring back Here.fm!
-Abbey

Please reinstate Here.fm, it was a huge part of my boyfriend and I's first months of our relationship as a long distance couple.

My best friend of around 6 years used Here.FM with me daily. We are 30 hours apart from each other and have never met in person which is why Here.FM was so useful. I am a bit of a lonely person and she is a bit as well so all we had was each other. Here.FM helped us connect much better and share cute stickers and images, it was perfect! When we found out it shut we were beyond devastation and have tried searching for alternatives but nothing was living up to it. Now we talk a lot less because we have no place to call now and can only really text which has broken our friendship a bit as we don't talk as much now. Please bring Here.FM back. For me, my best friend, and others.

Let’s report this big idea on the news as well.

Streaming services have allowed us to enter a new era of storytelling that gives us better quality shows, but consequently, we end up with fewer episodes and much longer waiting periods between seasons. It can be difficult for a series to find and keep audiences when you have to compete with so many other stories across so many other services. Sadly, The Big Door Prize has fallen victim to this scenario. There is a lot of content packed into each season. In fact, we rewatched season 1 before watching season 2 so we could have a seamless transition between seasons. It is a wonderfully written series with a unique premise that leaves the viewer examining their own opportunities and choices. This show offered two stories: an adventure wrapped in a mystery. As the people of the town discover themselves and explore their “potentials,” both the characters and the audience are trying to unravel the mysteries of the Morpho machine. Where did it come from? What is it? Why is it here? And what will it do? Each “level” unravels new questions and mysteries, engaging the viewer more and more. And, unfortunately, at the very moment a whole new development is revealed, AppleTV cancelled this wonderful series. This is the kind of series that requires a slow, steady build, immersing the viewer into the town and the lives of the people. This is the kind of show that benefits from viewer binging once several seasons have been released, and AppleTV has cut it off at the knees before it ever began to get steady on its feet. I have no doubt this show would have found a large following with a few seasons under its belt, but AppleTV has not given it the chance it deserves. I am sorry to see this series end before its time.