There’s hardly any moderation it very political. It’s giving a poor version of Reddit They allow racism cyber bullying you can post inappropriate content on here naked pictures on here. Ppl can dox your information. Not to mention they’re are minors also on this app. You do not have to be a college student to have access this app. This is not a safe space for people. They remove small things but the inappropriate content the racist comments and the cyber bullying hate speech death threats they’ll leave that up. You can report all day and it won’t do a thing. Also parents be careful with your children getting on this app. There are predators on here and they can send inappropriate Messages to your child. There is no age verification for this app. Just give a phone number and say I’m not a college student and you’re in. Also it’s hard to delete your account I’ve contacted support so many times nothing. This app needs to be demolished immediately. This app should’ve stayed banned. It got banned the first time because this app allowed two students to send death threats to a African American student Also cyber bullied a female college student Read about it especially parents. GET YOUR KIDS OFF THIS APP IMMEDIATELY.

I’ve never left a review on an app before, so this will be my first. I first got this app in high school because I had a really large school and thought it would be fun. This was when you could still interact with your local community rather than just college communities. Removing that feature was the start of this app’s downfall. It was funny to see everyone talking about teachers and what was going on around town. At some point I got a timeout for whatever reason. I never made rude comments on there or anything, so someone had to of reported one of my comments or something that caused the timeout. I didn’t understand and it never let me post anything else again, so I just deleted the app. I just re-installed it today because I’m in college now, and I wanted to join and post on the community. I joined the community and scrolled through a few comments. I then wrote up a post about our fall break that just started today. I tried to post it….and it told me I was in a timeout. A TIMEOUT FOR OVER 2 YEARS????? What sense does that make?! This app seriously downgraded, and it doesn’t seem like there will be any effort made to return it to its glory days. Unless you’re in college it’s a pointless app, and if you want to join a college community that actually functions normally just use Snapchat. I really, really, REALLY despise this company for ruining such a good app. Deleting it for the second time now and never downloading again.

The entire reason I wanted YikYak in the first place was to connect with my local community. YikYak used to be perfect for that, until a few weeks ago. You can no longer talk to your local community; there’s just universities and then the great beyond. I don’t need another place to make long-distance friends, that’s what Discord is for. I don’t need to divide the strangers I talk to by giant nationwide interest groups, that’s what Twitter, Reddit, and Tumblr are for. What I need is my herd, and no one gave me my herd quite like YikYak used to. If YikYak is to meet the same soulless money-grubbing fate that every other platform inevitably faces these days, I hope the developers are at least aware that the changes they’ve implemented into YikYak have stripped it of all the things that made it unique and authentic. The features that made it meet and fulfill a unique and niche market demand have been replaced with sad knockoffs of other platforms. It’s okay to experiment with other options and ideas, but it’s frankly insulting to assume that we’d completely trade in our herds for that. Unless the developers change their mind on this decision, I will be spending my time on the other platforms that do everything new YikYak does, better. I’ll be missing my herd every step of the way.