Fishbowl is dead. 55k members in the biglaw sub and there are barely any comments on any post. Bring back the old TLS forums!

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Don’t disagree. Fishbowl is gonna massively down hill and is way less interesting these days .

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I know! I was banned randomly with no explanation. Just opened the app and womp womp.

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Kinda makes me miss that guy crashing out about his lateral hiring

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Lmao what a goat

It’s like the same 100 or so people posting all the time

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I miss Teacher.

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yea i definitely appreciated the candor they brought to the platform in general. Was refreshing.

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Fishbowl is reporting it has been dealing with various bugs in their app that have randomly prevented folks from posting, or suspended their accounts.

I was locked out for over a month for no reason but was able to get service back after 4-5 emails reporting the issues.

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Retake, ED UVa

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I used to make joke posts and funny comments which would get lots of engagement. FB banned me. I dont think they really want a successful app

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also ppl flex overexaggerated salaries about their new in house roles. hey i work 30 to 40 hrs and make 300k base

I can’t say anything interesting because I’ll get banned again (even tho factually true)

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