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I wish there was a minus star rating.
Streetlife covered all of Sutton Coldfield and 3,135 people were members.
We had great debates, shared knowledge etc.
Nextdoor - Tiny adjacent areas - I have 410 contacts. Hopeless.
Repeated requests via email to please broaden areas have fallen on deaf ears.

Can't leave nextdoor quick enough. Dictatorial. Big on control of your personal info. Also wants to control what you post. I dont mean abusiveness just real everyday stuff. Try posting somthing about crime or antisocial behaviour.No way. Let's all be positive and unrealstic. Streetlife was really useful, promoted neighbourliness was friendly and fun. Not nextdoor. Too big, too rigid, too boring but very big on wasting my time. Best advice I have. Leave now.

I loved Streetlife and only wish I had discovered it earlier - I have found it sooo useful. I started to move to Nextdoor and got asked so many questions about my location and immediate neighbours that I gave up... am now very grateful that i did and hope that the limited information that they DID get from me is limited enough that I am NOT a member - if so then will have to manage to extract myself. It all sounds a totally illegal setup. Beware!

I joined Nextdoor when Streetlife was bought by them in Feb 2017. I have just deactivated my account after repeated attempts via the support email to get them to remove my street name from my profile. Nextdoor simply have no respect for people's privacy wishes. For the short time I was on the site it was apparent that other people were equally horrified that they had no control over the information displayed about them. Many people changed to false names (on Streetlife the convention was first name and initial of surname) to avoid their full first name and surname being displayed. Simply not good enough. Avoid.

I am still in shock how a company can completely takeover and then impose it's draconian rules and stipulations for nothing more than profit. Not only does this remove any form of individual control over data but flies in the face of neighbourliness and community.

Currently trying Kahuti.com, who are keen to hear what users actually want.

For anyone who hasn't seen it there is a petition against the https://www.change.org/p/uk-parliament-close-the-uk-door-on-nextdoor-and-remove-the-welcome-mat?recruiter=*******&utm_source=share_petition&utm_medium=copylink

The site post everybody;s address! is that even legal??
I joined and was immediately attacked for posting the truth and facts of a crime!
then the lead guy telling me to back off! really? why because people cant handle the truth? they want every thing to be on the positive side! but you cant have one without the other! my neighborhood is full of thugs, animal/child abusers/drunks/druggy's domestics, traffic violations, and zoning and bulding code violations!
so how are you going to clean up the neighbor hood if you cant post negative things about the neighbor's!
what a joke! I only lasted two days and closed my account! not going to deal with these clowns!
next I noticed that if you are signed in and you close out the browser, when you come back you wil still be signed in! huh? that aint right! and posting addresses, not good! just a matter of time before the thugs latch on to this program and use it to attack elderly people at their homes! or worse!
the idea is good, but you have to have the good with the bad and they dont want anything to do with negative so nothing will ever improve!
Beware!

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This site displays your full name, and address and also the exact location of your address on google map without your permission. It has no regard for anyone's personal security and has no intention of changing its security policy. It is an American company with its EU headquarters in Dublin so is not subject to the jurisdiction of the UK Information commissioner. Streetlife has sold all its members down the river by selling out to Nextdoor. There are a couple of possible alternatives you can join - neither of which give out your personal information. They are www.kahuti.com and www.streetabank.com

Having received an email from Streetlife to say it was closing down and inviting members to transfer to Nextdoor, I did. Big mistake. The default setting is to reveal people's complete address. The only option on offer in settings is to hide the house number. Not even Facebook is so cavalier with sensitive information! I complained and was told I would get used to it. I also noticed that the only option on offer on the site is to 'deactivate' an account. I emailed Nextdoor instructing them to delete all information held on me. To be fair, they have done so. A great pity really. The concept is good and I liked Streetlife. Maybe if enough people give them a roasting over their approach to managing sensitive data they might change their policies and attitude for the better.

I too am not happy with the way this sellout has been handled - clearly money means more than the community that have supported the service. I've spent some time looking around for something that would match Streetlife in terms of reach, anonymity and features ans I strongly recommend that you investigate this one

It matches very well what Streetlife offered: offer and request sections, notices section for posting and discussing topics of interest, Streetclub for running common interest groups and a 10 mile radius reach. It's also non-profit-making and committed to no ads as well. I've tried it for a few days and have found little to criticise:

https://www.streetbank.com/?locale=en

Remember to spread the word if you like it as these sites only begin to have real value if the numbers are there to create regular activity

As others have said, if you want all your personal data displayed in the public arena then go ahead and sign up. I didn't. I also was enrolled as a lead automatically, against my request, with no vetting. This meant I got sent emails with all people's personal addresses and names in. I immediately contacted nextdoor and asked them to take away my lead status. This has still not been done, several days after my first request. I have tried changing my address to one around the corner as I live in a small street but now I can't access my account at all and guess what, still no response from the monkeys NextDoor.

I too live in GB and was signed up to Streetlife. I found Streetlife very useful for getting / giving recommendations, finding out about local events etc. It is/was a site that doesn't make your address public and uses only initials. You did however have the option of messaging a person if both parties agreed. I have today moved to Nextdoor and it was only after I signed up (I did read the t's& c's) that I was aware that my full name and address were on view to the public and I have no choice about it. This puts me at risk. Regrettably and with anger as this should not be the case, I am leaving this site immediately after I have posted this review. If you have not yet signed up and do not want your name and address to be made public to all users ot Nextdoor do not sign up.