Bored Panda 17+

Much of the material on Bored Panda is lifted wholesale from other sites, particularly Reddit and Twitter. Most of this material is at least a couple of years old. There is some original content which is usually pretty good, but not always. Unfortunately, the regurgitated content seems to be taking over.

No effort is given to match the photos with the content matter, and, more egregiously, no credit is given to photographers or artists whose work has been co-opted. Finally, a depressing amount of the content is factually wrong; apparently fact checking is not a thing at Bored Panda.

Finally, Bored Panda gives you the option to either upvote or downvote people’s comments. This gets abused all the time, with people receiving downvotes either arbitrarily or because the reader disagrees with the commenter’s opinion. This in and of itself isn’t that much of a problem. What is a problem is that BP keeps track of downvotes, and after a certain number will no longer permit that person to comment. Bored Panda users have protested against this policy, but have been soundly ignored.

Frankly, I’m about to delete this app because it’s so frustrating (the app itself is very unstable and has frequent glitches.)

Not able to edit or remove comments or replies that I make. Why take that away? Sometimes I get the “you’re having internet issues, please try again”. No, I am not having internet issues, everything else is just fine, it’s only noted panda. When you click the part to see how many votes or replies on your comment/post, it does not take you directly to it. It used to do this 1-2 years ago. Now, you have to to hunt for it by clicking the “view post”, then scrolling through the post to look for the one(s) you made or commented on. Then today, it would not let me vote. Said I had to log in. Apparently, I was kicked off overnight. So I logged back in, and I tried to place my vote again. Took me back to the login screen. I did this about three times, just to make sure. Still no luck. When you click on the top three tabs of different titles, half the time, a blank screen pops up with the words, “no posts yet”, or something along those lines. What the heck is going on these days with BP? They have definitely been declining a lot in the past 6-8 mos or more.

BP used to be one of my go-to’s. Sort of a Reader’s Digest of Reddit posts and other content that I’d browse through as I relaxed after work or before bed. But recently, the app is bogged down by popup ads. And I HATE the damned swiping action between articles!! If you have to keep the ads- please for the love of all that is holy- get rid of the swipe. It’s frustrating when I’m deep in an article and I lose my spot because it swiped over to the next. With an ad of course. And of course another ad when I swipe back. Then having to start over. No thanks. After many years, it’s time to let BP go.