This exchange and faucet are anything but abandoned. The FreeBitcoins team is working and auditing the website literally every day. Users can easily test the website for free by using the faucet to have a small amount of Bitcoin or other altcoins deposited directly into their exchange account.
The exchange volume is low because the altcoin exchange is reasonably new and the owners of the website do not condone fake trading to attract "Volume Seekers"... Most traders are hunting volume rather than quality, FreeBitcoins staff is strongly against that and believe that with quality will come the volume.
We expect to see massive growth from the FreeBitcoins team over the next two years.
Users can chat live with FreeBitcoins staff in the Discord channel. This link can be found at the very bottom of FreeBitcoins.
FreeBitcoins also has an affiliate system that pays every time your user uses the faucet or makes a trade. The affiliate system pays 50% of all trade fees and 100% of all faucet hits.