Hey Pandas, How Do You Feel About The New Updates To This Site? (Closed)

I understand the need to generate revenue, but too many ads are taking over this site and will drive away users.

The BP recommends is intrusive, BP should have just put it in the top banner, not in the comment section.

The shopping thread needs to go. period. Notice how BP got rid of the ability to upvote/downvote that section? Taking our ability to downvote the shopping thread will not change the majority of users' dislike for those threads.

The overly intrusive pop up adds that take over the app - I edit the app when come up

i hate bored panda recommends, its covering comments on my post and its recommending articles from a long time ago

for some reason i cant edit my profile. it keeps on saying no changes and i cant change my bio :(

-The times when I click on a post and something is wrong and I can't open.

-The censoring!!

Bored panda recommends sucks. :/

The previous version wasn't broken, why did you have to fix it? One more site that I will bypass.

I feel like Bored Panda is following trends unfortunately being set by other websites. Making changes that didn't need to be made. If it ain't broke, don't fix it.

I really hate the "Bored Panda recommends", and while I can understand needing advertisements to help keep the site afloat, there are way too many adds. BP is going in the wrong direction.

The ads, but specifically the video ones. Right now I have three mini-windows of dancing garbage going. Especially loathsome are the inline videos that pop over to the corner once you scroll past, like the aforementioned Shouting Karen.

The shopping threads and celebrity gossip stuff are of zero value as well, but at least they're easy to ignore.

App user here! Sometimes it signs me out for no reason, and the random ads are really annoying.

Hate the ads.
Hate the censorship.
But most of all I hate the TicToc posts.

1 - Far too much reliance on American, and to a lesser degree other English-speaking countries, yellow tabloid "celebrity" "journalism" and TikTok narcissism.
2 - Unresponsive site, the spinning wheel while waiting for more (ads too) to load. Site notifications broken, random. Arbitrarily shortening "200 ways to..." to "25 ways to...", often while making the chopped off posts and comments
inaccessible even from the profile page or site notifications.
3 - Censoring the most innocent of expressions -think of the children!- while opening an "adult toy store" for Valentine's Day. I agree that profanity is unnecessary, but normal words and concepts, BP, puhlease.

I am mostly staying on here because I have severe stress in my life and I need something to drown it out. But the content has gotten worse for sure, all of this nonsense shopping stuff, celebrity updates no one cares about, same old reddit c**p. It used to be better than Buzzfeed, but not anymore.

Stop censoring so much. Most of the time it makes it difficult to understand what the sentence is about.

I agree with all the above. Stop changing Bored Panda!

I am not at all opposed to the shopping lists. Some of them have been poorly written and others are better, but they are easily skipped if someone wants to avoid them.

I AM frustrated that the AITAH posts have become so much more numerous. Posts like these are whine fests, and focus on what is worst about human beings. Ditto on other single subject stories about awful bosses, coworkers, exes, in-laws, etc.

There used to be so many more stories featuring: lists of woodworking achievements, thrifting finds, amazing cooking, furniture upglows, do it yourself accomplishments, etc. I really miss all those stories that occurred on a regular basis.

This is bothering me even before the update. Why BP initially has, say 86 entries on a post, and later culled them down to 40 entries based on user votes? What's the reasoning? Some people may quit reading the post after 40 entries, some people went all the way to the end. Why deprive them of this choice?

Wasn't broke - you didn't need to "fix" it!

The new pop up ads are annoying as hell. It’s bad enough that there are ads to x-out if I want more room on my screen, but to have to close an ad to see ANYTHING AT ALL!?

Additionally, I ignore the poll questions. No thank you.

I think it is nice but I wish we could search up for certain people. And also I wish we could have a suggestions box or something.

There were updates?