I created a hubski account nearly 9 years ago. In those 9 years, I've logged in less than a dozen times. My perspective is more from a new and/or low retention user.

- There's no mobile site. I probably login to reddit on my computer once every two months and it's only to post a massive wall of text. Otherwise, I'm on it probably 3 hours a day on my smartphone. I hate it. Most people use their phone for news, so why not have a dedicated app? I would be on that shit nonstop.

- I've met more hubski users IRL than I have reddit users (that I know of). I like the community aspect of this site, but as a non-full time user, I can tell that everyone seems to know each other - even if it's only from past comment interaction. Hubski is in a weird limbo. It's trapped between a social media site where I can chat with friends and link a face and personality to their opinion; and reddit where there's no face or personality whatsoever - just comments (mainly from Russian bots).

With hubski, you get the sort of personal emotion, but lack of a profile. No photo, no real name, location, etc. Being in this anonymity middle ground is a bit confusing to new users. It's like walking into a party where you only know one person and you try to have a conversation, but everyone clearly has some inside jokes. You just feel awkward and don't want to stick around.

- Small user base leads to not a lot of niche subjects. I like baseball and golf. Sadly, I'm stuck with reddit if I want to engage in chats with people on these subjects. This is something that won't really change without a massive increase in users though.

Here in Los Angeles, granny flats are currently all the rage. The city has set aside a fund to help homeowners build second, accessory dwelling units (ADU's) in their backyard. As the name granny flats implies, the most common usage is to have people from the older generation live there, similar to your friend's duplex situation.

In reality, it seems as though most homeowners are renting these out long term or short term on airbnb, which doesn't really help the original goal of the city's fund which is to help mitigate our housing crisis (shortage).

There were some proposals that if you rent your back house out to section 8 (low income) tenants, you get all sorts of government rewards. I don't know if this program is working though, as it seems like a tough sell to convince homeowners to invite low income tenants into their backyards.

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