[petercooper]

The few people I know personally (as in, real life) who use these platforms do nothing but complain about them (while continuing to make a living with them). It reminds me of eBay and PayPal back in the day - the platforms had great value for users, but the sheer number of variables that could go wrong meant there were always complaints.

[Buzdyk_Gregory]

Well, I was recommending Upwork to nearly every developer I know. Plus founded a russian slack conference about freelancing through Upwork.

I love it. It helped me so much to bootstrap my freelance career.

In the same time things described in the post made a lot of good freelancer leave the platform. B/c it's an easier way to cope with it's mechanical support.