Product
Colloquies Is Now Runde
Same app, same circles, a new name. Nothing for you to do.
September 25, 2026 Runde Team
Blog
Ideas on meaningful connection, making friends and building a social life worth having.
Product
Pay for the Room, Not the Seat
Software almost always charges one person for a private upgrade, but the things worth paying for in a group are jointly held. A reflection on why the unit of payment should be the relationship, not the individual.
June 12, 2026 Runde Team
Product
Adding Stories: Five Updates a Week
I added stories to a friendship app, then spent longer than I'd admit trying not to copy the version everyone already has. Here's what I changed and the objection I couldn't engineer away.
June 6, 2026 Viktor Stojanov
Product
We Changed Our Mind on Encryption
Runde used to encrypt every circle end-to-end by default. After watching four senior engineer friends get tangled in their own keys, I changed the default. Here's the reasoning and the line I tried to hold.
May 20, 2026 Viktor Stojanov
Loneliness
Why Friendships in Big Cities Don't Stick
Why adult friendship in a big city is harder to start than student friendship was and why what you build on purpose ends up being deeper than what came for free.
May 7, 2026 Viktor Stojanov
Product
On Streaks and Admitting We Were a Little Wrong
We wrote two posts arguing against streaks. We're adding one anyway. A reflection on the difference between an engagement trick and a small, honest nudge — and where we tried to draw the line.
May 1, 2026 Runde Team
Hosting
Mismatched Plates
Only about 4% of Americans host or attend a social event on a given weekend. We've made hosting too hard. A note on what the dinner parties people return to actually have in common.
April 29, 2026 Viktor Stojanov
Connection
Group Chat Fatigue Is Real
The fatigue isn't from too many messages. It's from messages that demand a response without ever asking a question. A note on screens, candy and what real conversation actually feeds.
April 26, 2026 Viktor Stojanov
Product
Small by Design: Why the Group That Matters Has a Cap
In university my circle kept collapsing back to four and Robin Dunbar's research suggests that's not a coincidence. On why real intimacy has a ceiling and why the gatherings that matter still run on a small-group engine even when the crowd is big.
April 24, 2026 Viktor Stojanov
Product
The Living Room, Not the Town Square
Social media is built like a town square. A reflection on why the relationships that matter happen somewhere else and what a digital living room could actually look like.
April 22, 2026 Runde Team
Product
What a Friendship App Should Actually Do
Most apps with the word friend in the copy are engagement apps in disguise. A reflection on what software built for friendship would actually look like — and why ritual matters more than reach.
April 22, 2026 Runde Team
Loneliness
How to Make Friends as an Adult
Adult friendship isn't a personality problem. It's an infrastructure problem and the infrastructure is quietly coming back. Where to look, how to show up and what to do when the first three weeks feel awkward.
April 20, 2026 Runde Team
Loneliness
The Thursday Problem
Men aren't losing friends because they won't open up. They're losing the weekly reason to show up. The male friendship crisis is an infrastructure problem, not a character one.
April 19, 2026 Runde Team
Connection
The Questions Nobody Asks Anymore
We've turned 'how are you?' into a greeting instead of a question. Research shows that the quality of our friendships depends on whether anyone bothers to ask what they actually mean.
April 19, 2026 Runde Team
Loneliness
Half Your Close Friends Will Be Gone in Seven Years
Research shows we replace half our closest friends every seven years. Not from fights — from drift. Why friendships are uniquely fragile and what the survivors have in common.
April 18, 2026 Runde Team
Product
What If Your Favorite App Didn't Want Your Attention?
Most apps are built to win your attention. What if one were built to hand it back? A reflection on software that serves the relationship, not the session.
April 17, 2026 Runde Team
Connection
Why Your Best Friendships Have a Rhythm
The friendships that survive adult life share one trait: regularity. Research shows why a weekly cadence matters more than grand gestures.
April 16, 2026 Runde Team
Loneliness
The Friendship Recession Nobody Warned Us About
What the friendship recession is, why adults have fewer close friends than at any point in 30 years and what the research says about why it's still getting worse.
April 8, 2026 Runde Team