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The vast majority of nextdoor posts in my area are people asking whether a snake is a copperhead or not and then arguing over whether or not to kill it. Followed by people complaining about X (speeders, dog poop, roaming cats, etc). Also a lot of folks looking for miss-delivered packages.

It's useful for borrowing a car seat, getting recommendations for plumbers, electricians, etc, advertising extra garden produce we wish to give away, and so forth. Otherwise, I stay off of it.

Also from a technical and UI perspective, the web site is atrocious. It loads terribly slowly on a current generation iPad, constantly tries to route you to its app, makes it way too easy to accidentally interact with a post or comment, defaults to "top posts" instead of "recent activity" and on and on. It's barely any better visiting on a desktop.

I much prefer the sub-reddits, city-data forums, and even FB groups for my area for keeping in touch with what's going around me.

>>js2+(OP)
Same here, although within the last 24 hours, my neighborhood's chat is starting to look like a Twitter-ish hate-fest. If they don't stop, I'm going to chuck it in the same dumpster as Twitter.