Yik Yak

Name: Yik Yak
Rating: 3.67688 (35773 reviews)

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Yik Yak

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35.8K ratings

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17+

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Yik Yak, Inc.

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User Reviews for Yik Yak

Good concept but has a lot of issues

The app is nice to use in a college town. But the app itself is so glitchy it’s basically unusable. I have constant issues with posts and comments that won’t load. The app crashes when I attempt to reload the main page or notification page. The notification page will randomly go blank and then refuse to refresh. Refreshing the main page will occasionally take away all the posts and say that nobody has posted there yet. The app is all sorts of glitchy and buggy and using it is a very frustrating experience.Edit: Yak has only gotten worse. The new interface looks bad, and they‘ve decided to start strictly enforcing only a few of their guidelines. Posts with a few Spanish words or ones that have curse words seem to be a ban-able offense, however users that constantly use slurs and bully others face no consequences for their behavior. Yak is picking and choosing which rules to enforce and they aren’t addressing the worst kinds of behavior on this app, instead choosing to turn a blind eye and focus on things that aren’t harmful at all.

#Ihateflappybird, Aug 02, 2022

Should allow you to set your college feed

I live off campus and I’m far enough away where I don’t get any of the campus feed which is somewhat annoying because the feed around me is dead most of the time. The only real way I actually get a feed is if I open Yik yak on campus which I don’t do very often considering when I’m on campus it’s usually to either do stuff for class or hang with friends so I’m rarely on social media then. During the period of time however when Yik yak glitched and had expanded the herd size I was having the time of my life because when I was on there was actually a good amount of posts coming from my college. I hope in the future they add the feature where you can set like a “home base” feed of your college so even if you’re outside of the 5 mile radius you can still interact with them.

Ahsmdnfhfn, Mar 23, 2022

End merge with Sidechat

YikYak and Sidechat were perfectly fine apps separate from each other and each served their own purposes, with Sidechat being for college students and YikYak being more community focused. This merge of the two apps into one serves zero purpose whatsoever. They were not the same apps to begin with and each had their own unique in-app features, but now basically all of these features have been stripped away. YikYak is entirely unrecognizable now and all previous user karma and history has been wiped. Sidechat is now overrun by people who were former YikYak users and are now being forced to post on Sidechat forums and streams. This merge is honestly beyond ridiculous and I’m surprised anyone at Sidechat actually thought that completely taking over another, (much older and well-established) beloved app and ridding it of all of its defining features and merging it with Sidechat was even a remotely good idea. Everyone on each app is posting on the same streams now and everyone is confused and frustrated trying to use the new versions of each of these apps. The only way to solve this problem without tanking the ratings and reputations of both of these apps is to return them to their previous states.

Beatbeets, Mar 31, 2023

So much potential but so many bugs

I remember using the app when it was first out and loved it. I'm so happy to see it's back, and excited to see where it goes, but right now it's not performing well. More than half the time when you open the app it says there are no yaks in your radius even when there definitely are. Even when it does show posts, it will take ages to respond to you scrolling or trying to open a post, often freezing or crashing in the process. Clicking on your notifications often won't even load the relevant post. Their auto-mod system will just pull down posts and comments with swear words in them and I have no idea if reporting an actually bad post does anything. The dev team seriously needs to work on this app before it's going to be functional for even the small number of users currently on it, much less when it starts to reach its previous popularity. I hope it can measure up.

beedav94, Aug 24, 2021

Fantastic but the Notification Tab Needs Work

I love checking this app and engaging with my fellow people on campus, but the app really needs to update its notification tab to show more of a preview of what Yak it’s referring to. The notification of “someone else commented on a yak you commented on” is helpful, and I want to check in on the thread, I love that. But, it doesn’t tell me which Yak that is. I have to tap that notification, wait 10 seconds for the Yak to load and then I end up checking the responses on that entire Yak. Right after that, you turn around and go back to the notification tab, and the indicator light for the notification you left is still on. You might be thinking, “Oh, just refresh it!”. Nope, if you do that, it gets rid of all the indicator lights for new notifications. So now, you have to guess what the next notification you should check is with no help from the exactly the same notification descriptions. I would suggest having a feature that changes the notifications from individual updates on each new message in the thread, to instead being one that says “New comments on Yak, ‘XYZ’” standing for the first couple words of that Yak. This way, it’s labeled and it’s streamlined because in the old system, I was getting all the updated messages in a Yak from just clicking on the first notification but then I still had to wade through all the other notifications about the same Yak.

Calvin.york99, Mar 04, 2022

What made YikYak YikYak is gone

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.

DeFord2024, Apr 24, 2023

Great, just needs technical work.

I had no idea about Yik yak until the week it was brought back, but it’s pretty neat being on a college campus. I have not seen the bullying which it seems to have been previously known for, and it’s fun to get a sense of what the community is feeling, along with just funny posts. However, in my first week of using it, 2/3 of the time it would say there were no posts in the area, even sitting in the exact same spot, and would often not load all of them at once. Now the first issue is resolved, but it sometimes takes a couple tries of opening and closing the app or refreshing and waiting to get posts from further back to load. I understand that there are probably 100 other posts saying this exact thing, but I enjoy this app a lot and would hate to see its momentum stopped by technical issues.

Eegnegnwbrq, Aug 31, 2021

This isn’t even YikYak anymore

YikYak/Sidechat has completely ruined this app. Their refusal to listen to their users and desperation for profit has led to this app being unusable and defeats its entire purpose. Restricting it to universities, only Apple users, and requiring more identifiable information to create an account alongside a terrible user-interface has removed everything that made this a special app. I am no longer able to gall with the people I knew on the old YikYak because they were using the spaceship feature and/or do not want to share personal information. There is an extremely limited ability to make connections with others, and the removal of old YikYak features and post/comment history means many users lost over a year’s worth of data. Forcing users into Sidechat (the exact same app, same posts and everything) with no warning and through the deceptive narrative of bringing back YikYak is a real slap in the face to the users who kept them running. Thanks for choosing profit over people, I hope the pay is worth ruining what you spent years trying to build. I do not recommend downloading this app at all, you’re better off just downloading the Reddit app.

eloisabz, Mar 30, 2023

It’s okay but…

The app is okay and fun when it’s working how it SHOULD be. However, most of the time, especially on WiFi the app NEVER opens or states an error and I need to force close the app. However, while using cell data, the app opens fine. Like….?????Also, there’s really disgusting individual(s) on the platform in my area. I don’t know if they are true or trolling but it’s absolutely disgusting and the fact that I consistently report the post and the user hasn’t been banned yet is astounding. For example; said user/pedos are making statements such as “there’s nothing wrong being a MAPs (minor attracted person)”, “NAMBLA party at pride”, more than 4 times a week. It’s disgusting. The app was fun back then but now it isn’t. And YikYak needs to do something about those kinds of post rather than just removing them. Such as banning them or adding a report function for mentioned issue above.

EricTheGay, Oct 14, 2021

Who thought this was a good idea?

This app is a gateway for bullying. Yes, theoretically it is a fun way to anonymously connect with people around you, but the creators neglected to think about their target audience. Yik Yak is literally being broadcast to insecure teenagers who feel better about themselves only when they are tearing down another person. This app truly makes everyone lose their humanity because they know they’re safe behind the “anonymous” tag. In only 10 minutes of scrolling through to see why my school is making such a fuss over this app I’ve seen death threats, talks of wishing to commit suicide, hate speech, vulgar slang, school shooting threats, people being sexualized by name, and so so so much more. This is not an app that should be allowed on the app store. If it had people actively moderating messages and posts, it MIGHT take a step in the direction of being remotely human again, but this simply isn’t possible. If you value yourself at all, do yourself a favor and don’t download this app. It is a horrible horrible space and there are so many more healthy groups that you could enjoy instead. Ignorance is bliss, it isn’t worth stumbling upon your name and being absolutely crushed. Stay safe out there.

GeometryHERO, Nov 17, 2021

Description

On Yik Yak, connect with everyone at your college. All you need to do to get started on Yik Yak is verify your humanity with a valid U.S. phone number.

Inside the app, your identity is a secret. This makes it fun and easy to jump into conversations without societal labels! Everyone is equal on Yik Yak. Other people at your college on Yik Yak are your "herd". When you post a message (called a "yak"), it's visible to your herd. You can upvote or downvote yaks to show your like or dislike of the content! To start a conversation around any yak, you can easily comment and start a dialogue. Notifications make it easy to keep up to date with activity. Check out the Nationwide Communities to connect with students across the US around your favorite interests! To keep everyone safe on Yik Yak, make sure you review our Community Guardrails before you get started! It's finally time to Find Your Herd! The yak is back!