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

Oh yeah, no more Tik Tok BS, and no more sensor BS

My other comment was pretty much negative but I would like to add that I really liked the posts where you could add something like culinary best/fails, best vacation pictures, list of tricks (even if I'm not going to use them, I like reading about them). There was always some sort of challenge and I think they are gone now. It's too bad. This is where the BP community really came together and actually praised someone's work (crafts, painting, pictures, etc.). There was a comradery that we don't see anymore.

Anything that moves on the right side of my screen gives me migraines. I can stop some of the videos, but then I will spend a huge amount of time just to do that and it's unacceptable. Then you have those ads that are flashing and also moving without being a video and there's nothing I can do against those. I tried using my AdBlock but BP will only accept it once and then when I come back will force me to disable it. The amount of repeats here are tiresome. Stop having stuff that are generalizing (only men will do this and only women will do that); that is not okay. People have so much to complain about, can they not do that elsewhere??? Also, try to work on your titles, they suck.

App user here. the pop up video ads need to go. There is far too much TikTok. Too low word coun

Way too many ads. The site is less enjoyable and relaxing. Thinking about Uninstalling the app.

I'm ok with the new surveys feature. My main gripe is the reddit reposts. Really just stop that, especially AITA.

The more I use it is the worse it is. I can't just scroll and find interesting articles. What on earth were you thinking????

Stop taking old posts and setting them to video! What is the point? Read the actual post months ago, now it's set to video? And the video doesn't even show the whole post, very annoying.

The censorship is beyond ridiculous. I understand censoring actual profanity, but censoring words like dead, drugs or w i l l y is idiotic.

You can avoid some of these complaints by a menu system. Put the AITAH, celebrity news, environment, politics and shopping posts in their own sections. Put artististic and creative, animal and member humour posts on the main page. This site has always missed a user forum to where ongoing topics can be discussed rather than just comment and leave but, again, it needs its own section off the main page. The censorship protocols are archaic and go against creative thought and inclusion. Removing and deleting negative posts is often a deterrent to seeing all sides of an issue and totally against creative free thought. Deleting and hiding comments is too much a schoolyard bullying type event where popular thought only is allowed. People need to be mature enough to see a larger range of thoughts, we are not an ant colony with a required hive mentality, divergent ideas are the juice of mental stimulation a site borne of creativity should be protecting and projecting that. Hate speech and direct attacks on fellow members of course should be reported and eliminated. But you can't have a whole list of Incel or worst comments on the net posts and then expect members to understand their own bad comments are not allowed in response, its stiflingly hypocritical, even contextually it is not passing the smell test and causing creative minds to leave. Better for those with strong feelings to have a forum and debate like adults about these things.

I found BP because of the absolutely relentless ads on Buzzfeed. Coming here was a total breath of fresh air. Now, however, I see BP becoming more and more like BF, and I hate it. I can understand the need for advertisers, but do they all need to be videos? It's taking longer and longer for the page to load because of the videos. Show me static ads if you must, but when I have to wait for ten videos to load, it smacks of Buzzfeed. I left BF and survived, and I'm afraid that I'll soon have to do the same here. Because of the load times, BP has become less of a quick escape into a much more time consuming ordeal.

I am rapidly getting to the point of deleting my account. I hate pop up advertising

The censoring is just silly. Also, I would recommend a general comments section at the end to comment on overall content/topic.

1. Obsession with censoring words that are in common use, or that someone thinks might trigger (horrors!!!) an emotion. Get real!
2. I don't need to see this on every post!
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3. Has your domain been throttled? Seems like it's been awfully slow lately.

So far it’s only crashed once. Other than that I haven’t noticed any difference.

The use of "hilarious" in titles - just click-bait. Some of them are so niche that one doesn't even understand the point of the joke, let alone find it hilarious.

Comments on this site have become very negative. People answer politically about unrelated things. Overall, the needless censoring and closing accounts based on down votes is what's killing it for me.

I very much dislike the poll at the end of every list. What is done with that data? Who is requesting it? Is it anonymized? I answered the first 3, then realized I wanted nothing to do with them.

Stop copying Buzzfeed!