My early years in Ravelry were wonderful. Through the site, I communicated regularly with fibercrafters around the planet. We collaborated on various charity events to help like-minded people who needed help with their own inescapable charitable pursuits. We were grand.
But then the climate changed. People with no real knowledge of politics suddenly announced themselves experts, and declared all who disagreed with their uneducated ideologies as white supremacists. HUH? Anything remotely supporting any ideology veering to the right of extreme leftist thought was pronounced unwelcome. Anyone who has a politically moderate point of view, or a conservative mindset, or is a Libertarian is despised on this site. These people are silenced while the ultra-progressives are encouraged to be nasty. In all my searching through the site's forae, I never located anything as profoundly hateful as the anti-white, anti-right rhetoric that now had a clear path to scorch anything within which PERCEIVED conservatism existed. Several people were driven away. Still, the majority of members are dewy-eyed innocents who would rather lie and hate and gang up on others so the site retains most of its enormous membership.
Then a major site redesign was thrust upon members. Even the far left members complained bitterly on the new design, a design which had not been subjected to usability or accessibility testing. The redesign was notably uncomfortable for many. Several members complained of discomfort or even outright pain from having to use the new design. When the complaints were laid upon Ravelry, its founder Cassidy went into a whiny rage, accusing people afflicted with pain of being liars, citing a half-baked article by a non-medical doctor stating that epilepsy with visual triggers was an unlikely cause of issues and reinforcing Cassidy's notion that the world was out to get her. I saw few member scomp-laints concerning epilepsy. Some seizure disturbances were reported but complaints were mainly issues with migraines and non-seizure visual disorders. The article was a poor choice of rebuttal, and why in hell would Cassidy do that to her members? Anti-white, anti-right-of-far-left, "inclusivity" does not include folks with various disabilities. This wasn't Cassidy's first assault on members' visual abilities, but it was the most egregious. Little effort has been made to help ease complainers' difficulties. According to Cassidy, visual disturbances do not exist.
I still check in on the forae in which I became acquainted with many good people. They are now generally quiet sad places. The ultra-left membership do not support the charity events we used to enjoy building. All the cameraderie is gone, replaced by suspicion and finger-pointing. Even in forae remote from the main boards. Ravelry is becoming a bleak wasteland.

I used to love this site. I would spend hours searching new projects and admiring the beautiful work of others. I never participated in groups or forums, I just enjoyed searching patterns and learning new things.
Being a Cinservaative and a Christian I endured page after page of $#*! hat patterns, F----k Trump patterns and erotic patterns, never saying a word. With so many members, there were many differing opinions on the site. I just scanned past them.
However, the day I logged on ti rmbe welcomed by a hateful, rabid diatribe labeling all white, Conservative Christians as "biggoted, white supremists", banning any support if our duly elected President and labeling us all as a group who hates anyone who is gay or black was just too insulting to take. They also lit up the page in rainbow flags in support of "Pride Month", I believe as an added insult, an extra "dig".
Revelry then took it a step further by instituting a policy if "Online Affirmative Action", telling members to download or purchase patterns by black, gay or LGBTQ members before considering others.
They claim to be "all inclusive", yet banned an entire group if people simply for holding ideals differing from theirs. They denounce hate but direct pure hatred at that same group. They cry out against doxxing, yet their minions have violently targeted many web-wide for disagreeing with their poisonous policy.

Basically, their hypocriitical policy is, "We are not going to tolerate your beliefs on our all inclusive website."

I just wanted to make pretty things feom yarn, not have their croomed finger pointed in my face. Shame on revelry for infusing our craft with their leftist ideals and shaming.

They are the ones who hate.

From 2010 until June 26th, 2019, I didnt realize that Ravelry had a political stance or was a platform and I thought the site was great. And then they posted that they were ridding the site of hate speech by not allowing any support of the president or his presidency, because support of Donald Trump=support of white supremacy. At first, I was somewhat disgusted, but figured that since I wasn't there for politics, it shouldn't affect me much. After a week, I was downloading all my patterns and deleted my account. Why the change of heart? Because I watched what that week turned Ravelry into. They didn't rid the site of hate, they simply ordered where that hate could and would be directed. Hate was rampant towards Trump and Trump supporters as well as policy dissenters, hate laid on so thick on forum after forum that it was sickening to read. Trump supporters pretty much blamed for all the woes of the world. People suspended for simply saying "i dont agree with tgis policy, it is wrong"
People crashed the conservatives boards baiting them into answering questions that got them suspended and their conservative boards closed. A witch hunt went out from Ravelers towards dyers/store owners, demanding that they answer if they supported Ravelry or they were supporters of white supremacy. The rabid Ravelry crowd would not be convinced that there was anything other than those two sides of the matter and screamed it from the rooftops. I noticed vile anti-Christian sentiments allowed and celebrated, showing me that hate speech of Christians could and would probably be next focus. And I thought, can I support a site that celebrates hate so vehemntly, as long as it's directed where they say to direct it. They took a peaceful place and in a week, turned it into a fanatical leftist mob hangout. Literally, if you ever wanted to live out the book 1984, head to Ravelry and sign up. They will welcome you with open arms, teach you their groupspeak (what you are allowed to think and not think) and then they will show you where your two minutes of hate is to be directed. 2+2=5 afterall