DoublelistReviews 12,585

Doublelist rocks! It was such a breath of fresh air to FINALLY find a website comparable to the Craigslist's personals section (but better) after years of searching.

Doublelist is like Craigslist's younger cooler liberal brother who still understands what life's simplest pleasures are about. Relationships, connecting (even if briefly), freedom to be oneself. I mean, Craigslist used to be liberal too, but got more conservative with age and became "born again" or something. Now Craigslist is just a shell of who he once was and has now become controlling and prude in his mentality, too worried about what the powers that be think is "best" for him (us).

Craigslist was so fun back in the day, but since the personals were taken off, you can now get banned for anything under the sun. As a gay dude, I can't even write something like "looking for LGBT-friendly gym buddies" without my post getting banned within 5 minutes. It's super annoying, homophobic (yeah, I'm using that card), and disheartening. Doublelist, on the contrary, allows these types of posts so it's also a really great place to meet like minded friends as well!

Another peeve, I have with Craigslist is that it keeps your posts even when they are deleted/banned which is such a privacy breach, imo. I mean, I don't know if Doublelist *privately* stores your deleted posts but at least they let you delete them, and don't show you all your embarrassing deleted posts in a "deleted" tab for you to forever see and be ashamed of lol

Doublelist censors a tiny bit but it's probably a legal thing and it's made pretty clear what you can and can't post. You are still able to express yourself. Getting a post banned on Doublelist happens to me only SOMETIMES but it's not nearly as much or as bothersome as when it happens on Craigslist, and much easier to mitigate.

Another this is I like that only members can use Doublelist. Though anyone can make an account, it's somehow comforting that one can't access the website unless signed in. It adds some layers of privacy, one of them being not getting your post seen and listed by an internet search engine. Horrifying, amirite? Lol

If anyone is looking to meet people like we did back in the early days of the internet before all these apps, I recommend this website. It's more anonymous than the apps (as long as you use a dedicated email address just for using on Doublelist) and there are many different types of people posting everyday so it's definitely a very active website with lots of potential meet up possibilities.

Give it a try, you'll be glad you did!