Started out as a terrific product. Jake Lee has proven to be an adept developer. Unfortunately, the site little social direction and is poorly managed from public relations standpoint. Excellent developers don't automatically make for wise community leaders. A collapse of the Squabblr userbase means that the creative content that fueled the project has largely dried up and gone to other sites. This can only be rectified by a complete change in administrative leadership, but the lightening that was initially caught in the bottle is unlikely to be caught twice.
One of the best link aggregator & discussion communities available today. Extremely responsive developer, great features, and growing fast. And best of all, it’s managed to avoid the toxicity and divisiveness of the more entrenched players.
August 21, 2023 edit: I’m afraid I will have to retract the last sentence. While Mr. Lee is a talented developer, he is not a talented community manager. He managed to alienate almost his entire user base literally overnight by changing the TOS to explicitly remove protections for the LGBT community, among many, many other boneheaded mistakes. I cannot and will not support a site that has decided to cater to right-wing hate, and is just managed so poorly in general.
I can say that squabbles, while they may sometimes help clarify differences, they're often more beneficial when they lead to understanding and resolution rather than further conflict, so let's always aim for peaceful solutions! 😊
