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I believe everyone is entitled to live as they choose and love whom they will. However, I neither believe that any one lifestyle choice has the right to force their opinions and beliefs on others, nor do I care to be lectured to. I also choose not to be confronted with BDSM imagery and sex toys on the main sign in page TO A YARN CRAFTING SITE as a demonstration of "inclusivity", "wokeness" and "LGBTsupport" during pride month. The Ravelry admins are letting their personal causes, interests, and lifestyles interfere with running their business by continuing to exclude, alienate, and lecture. Enough drama; I'm out.

Ravelry has been my go-to for knitting patterns for nine years. I often get lost in perusing this site and so appreciate the talented designers and their patterns (I have purchased many). However, I have never engaged in the "social" side of Ravelry. I have never made comments to other "Ravelers", (other than a question about a pattern, perhaps). It was so upsetting to see their announcement three weeks ago. To me, it was filled with hatred and the absolute OPPOSITE of what they were claiming to do. Just because one supports a president and an administration that they don't agree with, they are called White Supremicists? The hypocrisy of their "tolerance" astounds me. Should "hate-speech" be allowed? Absolutely not! So ban the perpetrators and hateful patterns (on BOTH sides!) and move on!
I feel rather foolish that this bothered me SO much, but Ravelry was one of my "Happy Places". Not anymore. I can live without their brand of tolerance. If I could give them zero stars, I would. They have hurt so many people through this, the least being me - this won't affect me financially at all. There are spinners and disigners that will have their livelihood endangered, I wonder how that makes them feel.
Adieu, Ravelry. I will really miss you.

Ravelry has every tool you could think of for yarn using fibre artist. It keeps track of your yarn stash, catalogs your patterns, keeps you on task with wips and pieces hoth

It's the best place on the internet for knitters, crocheters and other yarn crafters. There's patterns, forums, and everything you need for successful projects.

Ravelry is the perfect social media site for knitters/crocheters/yarncrafters. I've been a member since the site launched in beta in 2007. I've made a lot of good friends, found incredible patterns, researched yarn and techniques. It's helpful as a resource and a fun place to participate. There are always improvements and developments being made to the site, and in the rare occurrence of a bug, it is taken care of swiftly. Easy links to other platforms make sharing fast and easy. Here's an example: if you link your IG account, post a photo with #ravelry on IG, you'll get a message in your ravelry inbox asking if you'd like to import this photo to one of your project pages!
There has been some recent controversy regarding the owners' choice to make this a safe space from hate speech and racism. Unfortunately, there have been members who are hateful and cling to that hate to the point that they feel the need to lash out and harass others both on the site and off. They continue to prove what led up to this and why taking this measure was necessary. They will tell you that this is about politics, but it is not. They'll have you caught up in the paradox of tolerance, try to convince you that their beliefs are sacred, while, unlike a person's race/ethnicity/sexuality/gender, their beliefs are a choice, and a terrible one for humanity.
If you're a knitter/crocheter/etc and haven't heard of ravelry, check it out-- it's a happy, yarny, creative, and fun space.

Love it! The only down side is you can spend HOURS trolling patterns, groups, yarn etc. My friend calls it "knitting porn"... lol.

This one site has done more to divide the knitting community than can be expressed. So sad what they did to us all

Ravelry is wonderfully inclusive and has worked hard to be that way. They only exclude individuals who want to spew hate towards others.

I joined Ravelry in the very beginning when you still needed an invitation. I enjoyed the forums a lot and met many friends in them that I'm still close to. Even back then there was a lot of garbage on the site and it has only gotten worse as people have become bolder. I knew people then who wouldn't open Ravelry if their kids were in the room because they couldn't predict what kind of nastiness they would see. There is a Lazy, Stupid, and Godless group that is exactly as vile as it sounds and they are proud of it. There is a Rubberneckers group where they make fun of conversations in other groups (no groups were private). The liberals would go into conservative groups and ask an "innocent" question, then their friends would come in and pile on then they flagged our replies as offensive. Those flags were one reason given to us for having our group shut down. Most of the group was banned shortly after when we took our political discussions somewhere else. These days you can post a "$#*! Trump" hat pattern but "God is love" is hate speech. An avatar with Whatsherface holding Trump's severed head is acceptable but Betsy Ross is offensive. I deleted my account months ago but many people I know are deleting theirs now. Seems most of us don't care to be caught under a blanket statement that covers easily half of the country. They claim that being a Trump supporter automatically makes you a white supremacist but a lot of these folks aren't white at all!

Love this website. Have been a member from the get go. Best resource and community on the net for anything fibre related

I absolutely love Ravelry and it's been my main resource for crochet patterns since I taught myself how to 3 years ago.

I am so very glad to have such an open and welcoming community of folks dedicated to keeping the fiber arts alive.

I don't crochet, but my friends do and I would definitely recommend.

Plus, pissing off trump supporters is a hobby of mine.

For about a month we have been unable to reach the website. Our ISP says it's been blacklsted on our network. The ISP claims to have repeatedly tried to contact Revelry but has had no response.

For a website which brands itself as trans friendly, black friendly, democrat friendly etc, it's sad that a recent website redesign has made itself disability UNFRIENDLY. This is a community website and many knitters find comfort there... and many people with and also without underlying medical conditions are now experiencing migraine from a website in which they have never had migraine before... from any website. And some people who have had past epilepsy's have had seizures and had to give up their driving license (as the law stipulates this). Ravelry response? "Tough", get over it. They are deleting any post that shows negative feedback to their redesign effectively brushing all problems under the carpet. If you dont like the migraine inducing website... leaves is their response. Despite this being AGANST W3C web guidelines as there is NO WARNING on the front page. To top this all off... if you say anything legally ok, but against the design. The admin delete your account!. It's become a dictatorship. No consultation, no discussion, we dont like your negative (though constructive) comments, get lost. Posts and accounts deleted within 5 min to avoid anyone else noticing issues from sharing thoughts with others. And to think the owners of Rav are Democrats... Theyre behaving like Republicans censor this, censor that... What the fxxx has happened? I think all designers/sellers/buyers should quit.

They are bias and very intolerant of views different from their own. Promotes harassment of people that don't think like them.

It's a very easy to navigate website. There are so many resources available from yarn reviews and patterns to technique help.

Nice site, good resources for fiber workers. Never had an issue. Easy to use, great to connect with like minded people

White suburban Harvard elites, the founders of Ravelry believe that only privileged people like themselves can save the little brown people of the world. They lied to create a situation where they could feel justified in banning conservatives from their site, tarring and feathering Trump supporters, one and all, with the label of "White Supremacist". They lied to their advertisers about their subscriber count to inflate their advertising rates, creating fake accounts at a time when the site was closed to new accounts. And never forget: they accepted $71,000 in donations from their community -- so much money that they didn't even need it for the business and used some to purchase CARBON CREDITS -- and later, when they no longer needed these donors, they BANNED THE VERY SAME PEOPLE IF THEY WERE TRUMP SUPPORTERS. At the same time, they welcome with open arms hate speech against President Trump, Sarah Palin, Jews, and others. This website is run, and populated, by hateful people, and any veneer of civilization that was once there is long gone. -- Ravelry member 2008 to 2019

If you are at all conservative or value freedom of speech it's not a site for you. Definitely left biased.

Liberals are unhinged. They are causing the hate and division. Let them fall on their sword no one will care

There should be no place for politics on a fiber site. Ravelry proved to be horribly biased and totally intolerant.

I've only ever received great service from this fine company. Great variety of patterns and difficulties. Principled organisation.