I have said, perhaps too many times, that Khal doesn't know what the heck he's doing. I've pointed it out before and while I'm just a lil fish over here, I'm also a professional developer and a former QA. On some things, I can speak with authority, and in the case of InLeo it's been an utter dumpster-fire since its inception.
They were "live" for months before they could even get their home page to reliably return posts, all while screaming about how great what they were building is.
If the core functionality you're building doesn't work reliably, you're just promoting blind hype. If you don't understand why the dumb stuff you're copying straight from web2 look-alikes works the way it does, you shouldn't be making it.
They've had a "following" tab since inception that doesn't actually work. A reasonable person would look at a Following tab and go "oh that's the folks I follow!" but click it on their UI and you'll find plenty of folks you don't follow there. Best I can tell it's either a copy of the home tab (completely unfiltered) OR it's limiting to your subscribed communities - but in either case it's poor UX. These are minor things I'm pointing out but you know who wouldn't make this kind of dumb mistake? Someone who knew what the heck they were DOING.
Khal is a startup-energy tech-bro hype-man, making flashy nonsense filled with generated bs and calling it a success.
The best thing the Leo team has ever made is HiveStats. It's the only app that works 100% of the time and it's a fantastic design.
Everything else has been either explosive failure or just kind of dropped into the background. When was the last time they did anything with leodex? A platform that could actually drip some income into their pockets and yet you look at online stats and the estimated traffic is like 43 people in the last 3 months. TribalDex stats by HiveEngine on the other hand are like 134k. Now, of course, those web stat sites aren't perfect but still. Paints a picture, don't it?
Sorry for the essay. I get feisty about this topic.
In fact I thank you for writing this.
A post will be welcome with details. I can promote it if you send me a link. Common people need to know this.
I'll try to set aside some time to compile this into an actual post. Some of it will be a rehash of my prior post on it, but there's certainly more I could say. I'll see if I can sneak some time in over my lunch break to get a post out.
Well this took a different path then I thought it would but I'd you're interested in the rant, it's here.
https://peakd.com/hive-196233/@oblivioncubed/overpromise-and-underdeliver-the-hype-train