Uptrennd has been one of the most popular crypto blogging websites with niche communities. Even though there were a lot of moderators (aka Guardians) of the platform, the increasing Ethereum fees + corrupted tokenomy give birth to major problems in the developer team.
Currently, Probit is the only exchange that you can buy/sell 1UP tokens. The sad part is that, there is a high withdrawal threshold for the bloggers.
Ethereum Fees, Upvote Circles, manipulations and decreasing popularity pushed the founder to give up. At that point, the Guardians are blaming the founder for not responding to the Guardions for 6-7 months, and even blocking them on several channels.
Here is a farewell post by one of the most popular Guardians. Link
TRODL
Trodl is a separate project that is built by a different team of developers. The only point is that they did an airdrop for Uptrennd users. In my opinion, Trodl will be a more successful if the project can be adopted by an authentic community. We will see 😌