Bring back the 2014 app lol

A while ago vent switched owners and to keep the app running they changed a lot about it to match their existing apps. That’s all fine and dandy, but lately the #1 issue is moderation, with communication being a close second. The owner has recently released a new set of guidelines, meant to supposedly be more specific and clear up the communication issues between users and moderators, but it’s done probably the exact opposite. Now, non triggering posts are getting automatically tagged with a warning, presumably without giving any notice to the poster. Not to mention, these moderators have a clear misunderstanding of how mental health issues present themselves and what classifies as an actual crisis, leading to a lot of users feeling as if they can’t even ‘vent’ anymore.
The unfortunate thing is that these are problems that can be fixed, however the owner likes to brush of a lot of the community’s concerns and acting like him running the app poorly is somehow better than nothing just because he ‘doesn’t make money off of this app’ and it’s supposedly a passion project. There would be less issues if they were properly specific about their guidelines and actually have their moderators do their jobs consistently. I’d happily give a better review if they would just stop acting like us mentally ill folks don’t know how to keep ourselves safe or understand our own experiences better than the folks running the app.

I’ve been on this app since 2016, and in my ears this app has truly always been a dumpster fire, but we could express ourselves as we saw fit.
“Making it easy to share your true feelings with people around the world” is honestly a lie now. I don’t think many people can think mid panic attack if they’re staying within the (wildly vague) guidelines.
I can’t even vent about my ED or anything without being worried that I’m going to have my account banned because the mods are so trigger happy with the removal of posts. I’m truly sad to see an app that has helped me express myself throughout school, abusive relationships, pregnancy, and mom life, etc. has fallen so far down.
Also a post can be fine with one mod, and the next one can hop on shift and go ham on everyone’s posts.

This app has gone downhill. Too much censorship and not enough freedom to vent. Y’all are gonna end up shutting down before 2025 because nobody likes this app anymore

Used to be a safe space where I found meaningful friends and community. I’ve been on this app for more than 8 years and for the first time I’m feeling genuinely unhappy with the state it’s in. The app owner makes calls that don’t make sense and then doesn’t explain himself to a rightfully upset userbase. Major updates to community guidelines enforce censorship to an extreme degree. Topics such as suicide, self harm, and eating disorders are all but banned on an app said to focus on open communication around mental health issues. Would not recommend if you’re looking for a place to truly vent about what you’re feeling. Highly restricted and unfriendly to the topics it claims to prioritize. Sad to see my favorite app for almost a decade in this current state and can’t help but feel that truly absorbing community feedback could fix some of these issues. While you’re reading this, I would recommend against Talklife too. Owned by the same individual and is even more restrictive, from personal experience.

Posts even relating to heavy topics such as self-harm or suicide will get auto-deleted. They’ll claim it’s “encouraging harmful behavior.” Awful moderation team
- Someone who has used this app for 10+ years

I enjoy it

If I knock on your head it would produce an echo. No common sense when choose which posts to remove, but will happily let bigots run their mouths. Edit 7/2/24 stop asking me to rate the app every 5 minutes it’s disruptive and annoying.

i just have to remember to post, lol im fixing that now
update *** welp that didn’t take long for yall to run me off the app lol ( 4 days later)
i delete everything and uninstall.
you say no nsfw posts but im constantly seeing them , y’all just selective ( this was the deal breaker the selective either you allow it or not, its not fair some people can have there posts up and i got deleted) idk if it was too much, but it wasn’t that bad, ok so it is just best i dont use the app at all, made me uncomfortable yall did that, mayb i will try again another time

i just have to remember to post, lol im fixing that now