Description
Yik Yak is a location-based social network that helps you connect with the people right around you.
By letting you express yourself, exchange thoughts, and explore your world, Yik Yak helps you feel at home within your local community.
What's New in Version 4.6
Big news! This update brings back user-favorite features. We heard you!
Here’s what’s up:
1. Handles are optional again. Post a yak with or without your handle, the choice is yours!
2. The Hot feed returns! Sort your local feed by the newest or top-voted yaks.
We’re committed to making sure we’re doing right by you and your herds. That’s why we’re building Yik Yak, to help your communities connect! So please keep sharing your feedback with us. Stay funky. — The Yak
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Customer Reviews
Props
I have to give props to the makers of Yik Yak. They did something that few companies seem to do these days- they listened to their user base. Before this new update, users were forced to post and comment with a handle, removing the anonymity for which this app became famous for. At my college campus the user base dropped to where a top yak would receive maybe 20 upvotes, down from 100+. People were afraid to post anything personal, afraid somebody could figure out there identity through scrutinizing their posts and comments. Of course, and I believe this is what yik Yak intended, comments that were mean and aggressive were less common. However, people were afraid to speak the truth. When you looked, you could find the positive side of an anonymous Yik Yak. I've seen so many people admit to feeling depressed, stressed, and suicidal under the protection of anonymity. People post positive messages urging that we can all make it through the exams, the semester, the year. Truthful and personal topics can be discussed, insecurities and fears and dirty laundry can be shared, a bunch of college students can lean on each other without worrying about being judged. I think this makes for a better, stronger community than any sort of profile pic could. Thank you, Yik Yak, for bringing back our quirky, and sometimes flawed, anonymous community.
New update defeats the purpose of this app
Update 4.6: basically they added back anonymity. So that fixed the biggest issues with the app. I'd say 4.6 is now the best version of this app yet; however, the several month delay between the outcry about them removing features and putting them back makes me unwilling to give them more than 3 stars. The damage is done, they've driven off half the user base and made my yak feed much, much more boring.
Simply put, with Yik yak version 4 they tried to create a completely different app. They removed the main feature of the app, anonymity, essentially to replicate twitter, except make it location based. In doing so they've alienated their entire user base and watered down their app. The interesting discussions about sex and relationships that used to be commonplace have all disappeared. The posts asking for relationship advice are gone now that handles and profiles are mandatory and their significant other or crush can see it's being posted about them.
I Got Spout Instead!
I left Yik Yik for Spout™🐳 and this is why. At first I didn't like that you had to verify your phone number but I dealt with it because it was anonymous anyway. Then they took away out anonymity with handles and then profiles. And after MONTHS they finally realized they screwed up. A lot of people in my area left the app so that only a few of us remained. I got used to the handles but it just wasn't the same anymore. My area is small so the handles became well known. Now that we have anonymity back but handles and profiles still exist, it's just not that same anymore. You see, because our area was small enough already without handles, the handles made it so that you got familiar with people. The way they talk especially. And because of that, it's easy to guess who is saying what even if they hide their handles. And now, because of anonymity, the horny people are back, the rude/mean people are back, but worse than before. Yik Yak isn't what it used to be and that's why I got Spout instead. 🐳
- Free
- Category: Social Networking
- Updated: Nov 14, 2016
- Version: 4.6
- Size: 59.7 MB
- Languages: English, French, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish
- Seller: Yik Yak, LLC
- © Yik Yak, Inc.
Compatibility: Requires iOS 8.0 or later. Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch.