I would like to know this as well .-.

No idea. I still use it a fair bit and like it personally. It is pretty rare that I see others make use of it, aside than in SL that lots of people list their F-List in their profile. I have not heard of any other similar service that people would be using in its stead... or heard any shocking scandalz/drama about it. So I don't know either, but equally as puzzled as you.

I see some people treating it like some negative thing without really explaining why apart from something like "most of the people in the chat are untalented and lazy, it's not a good place to roleplay".

To a degree I agree with that, although not so strongly.

Still, the website and chat functionality themselves are still great - makes organizing interests easy and looking up characters with mutual interests a breeze.

Basically this. There's a lot of trash there, but there's plenty of good people and good writers on there.

It's the same as it is everywhere.

I've made a good amount of friends on there, so I can't say that I'm unhappy at all about using it every once in a while.

Between F-List, Aryion/Eka's, and Vulpine Hollow, F-List is easily the best.

I think one of the issue is the owner....apparently they work at/for/own Bad Dragon and there's some stuff that made people mad about them.
There was also someone that did something, like an ex-staff member...who later was going to be a staff member here on FA but because of their F-list thing they didn't. I'm kind of out of the loop on the whole details though.

I think what else happened was other sites took the traffic away. Like Weasyl lets you post your characters and such as your characters...so why would you need a separate site to list your likes and such when you could just do it on your characters there? Same with sites like Toyhouse. Though this is just a guess on my part.

I'm still using it

Haven't ever really noticed or heard such a thing. I've certainly heard people complaining about the quality of role-players here and there, but that will be a thing regardless of the site or place.

Haven't set up my own yet, but it certainly does sound like a useful thing to have.

I don't even know what happened there.

The only controversy i'm aware of is what's stated on their Wikifur article.

"On February 3, 2011 (08:00 UTC), F-list was compromised by ex-coder/moderator Zidonuke, who was removed for abuse of privileges. The compromise resulted in all users being given admin privileges on the site and moderator privileges in the chat. The admins online at the time were banned from the site, as Zidonuke had hidden a backdoor program on the server and hacked the code. F-list was taken offline shortly after, with a broadcast on the chat by the ex-coder that there were no recent backups. It is uncertain whether the site was taken offline as a defensive measure by F-list staff, or by the Zidonuke. As of now, the site remains back up after a server wipe. Private Data consisting of email, IP records, and user logs were available to all users through the "log viewer" page while the site was up, as they were all admins. The users who abused this were timed-out of the site."

The last time I used the site, pretty much all the other users acted like snobs. As far as I can tell, that’s the only thing that keeps people from using it.

Hmm, hadn't heard of anything wrong with F-List...

I'd have used it myself, except I'm too damn lazy to set up an account on there and spend time adding everything I'm into... (I'm into a lot of things...)

I still use it for finding RP partners and for it's chat. Not sure what other website is good for finding RPers, to be honest.