Nextdoor

Nextdoor was largely built by volunteer homeowners who thought it would be neat to build a neighborhood-centric social network. Unfortunately, Nextdoor's blind grubbing for revenue via sponsored content combined with its emergence as an online market for crap your neighbors dont want anymore has made it burdensome and largely useless. So many neighbors have dropped off due to the commercial traffic that it is not longer a means to keep in touch with the neighborhood. Just some neighbors.

Moreover, as an early lead who brought over 100 new members, I can just no longer tolerate the incredible rudeness and even blind stupidity of its support staff. Apparently, theyve all been told that ND is all powerful and the only game in town. At least they act like that. Myself and my neighborhood will be moving back to email. Its not worth the hassle.

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.

In our fast-paced & tightly scheduled region/culture, none of us know our neighbors. Although I still don't know them personally, we have become better acquainted w. Each other over the last few yrs. Best outcomes:
- personal referrals for home repair, landscapers, painters, specialty needs (very lengthy list)
- personal appeals by adults (& teens) who need: job referrals, odd jobs, between jobs & need help
- charitable focuses eg "I know a needy family, can u donate stuff"
- opinions on local ballot issues (sometimes gets... colorful)
- someone even started up a volleyball gathering
- buying & selling stuff
- increasing topic: local security- police sometimes post! Plus coming together when there is trouble eg theft of packages, pranks, Ring Doorbell assistance ("have u seen this person?")
- seeing what real estate trends going on around us
I really appreciate this app!

I never knew we had so many great neighbors & I read about them every day (helping out one another). I love the announcements & sharing of excess (bulbs, food items, plants, etc). I love hearing of real time local happenings (comedy, music, farmer's market) & safety concerns (road/power closures/outages). We have proven over and over that we are a village when it comes to finding a lost pet & supporting those who are unable too. Cannot number the times I have met new neighbors while purchasing something from the greater neighborhood. I love this app. I don't FB, Tweet or Instagram. Nextdoor suits me just fine.

Absolutely worthless site. The posts are so random, and requests too much personal information. When I requested assistance from the site I was told they only reply using email, no phone calls. How unneighborly.

You will be bombarded with junk emails on very random things. Don't waste your time or money

Our initial test case for curbing neighborhood late night vehicle prowling, break and entry and vehicle theft proved to be highly successful but still required a lot of manual effort to acquire and update resident email addresses needed for incident blanket broadcasting.

A subsequent trial was set up using NextDoor as a platform for broadcasting security video incidents and it was extremely successful.

Now over 500 neighbours in our community are updated immediately after each incident, police are using our videos to aid in more timely arrests which also is improving the conviction rate.

I see some negative comments posted by others that is misinforming... I suspect they are competing with other services and apps and Nextdoor is a threat... Try Nextdoor for yourself... If you don't like it... then cancel your membership.