Vent - Express your feelings

I had lots of complications just getting my account set up on this app and initially deleted it on my iPad, but it remained unused on my iPhone. I stared at the little icon after a pivotal moment in my life where I had to stay strong, but all I wanted to do was scream as loud as I could on the highest mountain top... Or I guess a pillow would suffice. Either way, I tried to log in after an iOS update one last time and suddenly I was in. Right now this is one of the most exciting new apps I’ve seen since GetGlue or TVTime. No, ‘Vent’ doesn’t center around media... But there’s a closeness in the community that echoes the strength of the original GetGlue, but with the supportive feel of TVTime. ‘Vent’ allows me to connect with people going through similar issues, and even narrows that lot down with similar interests. Groups are great, the users are there to build you up, and if you have something tough going on in your life; if you’re battling personal demons; or you just need an outlet to react off that pesky first emotion that hits you in the gut... This is the best kept secret in the App Store. Shhhhhh, lets keep it that way by putting our all into making the vision the developers came up with a reality... TOGETHER.

I have been on this app since early 2015, and love the function and most of the community on it. I have made friendships that are now 2+ years and going strong, but the app could be better. First off, I have daily issues with my message notifications from within the app. I have my phone notifications disabled, but when the app is open it shows I have several new messages to open. When I click on the “unopened messages,” there is no new response. Also once I have gone through all “unopened” and exit messages, that number notification stays on the top right corner no matter what. Another issue I have more frustration with is that I cannot gift emotions. I have an iPhone 6s and am trying to gift to another user whom I have been mutuals with for over two years. When I click Confirm, it says “unknown product identifier” And does not let me confirm my purchase whatsoever. Although it will not let me gift the Candy emotion set, it has allowed me to purchase emotions for myself. This recent update was supposed to fix bugs, but I have been having these issues for the longest time. I have also commented on vents posted by this app’s Tech-Guy, and he replied to me with a “solution” that did not work. I explained the messaging issue more thoroughly and he did not respond again. I love this app and it’s purpose but am getting fairly frustrated because I cannot do simple things this app claims to have allowed in the most recent update.

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The app is hypocritical. I got harassed/attacked by at least 20-24 people for actually being myself, as the app suggests, consistently, for about 2-3 hours. Then I got banned, these people constantly posting messages on my posts saying things like #this #this #this. Or something like that. But it was mostly directed at like trying to tell the devs or whatever to ban me. And If you read the dev responses to some of the reviews on here you’ll actually see the devs are hypocrites. They claim “safe for everyone”. It can’t be safe for “everyone” if they ban certain people they personally do not like. So this app is not “safe for everyone” if they ban certain people they personally don’t like. It seems to be more of a manipulation tactic honestly. This app is full of corrupt devs. And they all are disgusting human beings. I can’t believe I’m even calling them human to be honest. But yeah the app feels very unsafe actually. It feels as if your in a war zone always having to tiptoe everywhere around people. Fearing you’ll be psychologically attacked for actually being “yourself”. You are not allowed to be yourself. This app is corrupt, hypocrites, and they lie. Never seen something so disgusting that tries to act as if it’s so innocent and pure that it protects everyone bwahahahaha.

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I never write reviews for apps but this time I felt like I had to. First off, the app has quite a few bugs. For example, every time I open a new message, the reply box will suddenly disappear and I have to close and re open the app before I can reply. Secondly, my account was banned for about 12 hours because they claimed my photo was inappropriate. It was a sexy photo but not revealing at all, so I checked their “community guidelines” to make sure that I wasn’t in violation of any of them and I didn’t find anything that supported their claim since there was no nudity or even cleavage and nothing suggestive about my pose. I then very politely emailed the support team to ask that the ban be lifted since there was nothing in their rules that said I couldn’t use that as my photo. I also said that I would of course never use a similar photo again, but I didn’t feel that it was right for me to be banned since there was no way for me to know that using that photo would get me into trouble. When someone finally got back to me they essentially told me that I was on a “timeout” and that I should chose a better photo next time. It all felt very condescending and unhelpful.

I feel like vent is a work in progress. The community is very supportive and focused on the social aspect of social media, rather than popularity, like mainstream apps such as twitter or instagram. However, there are several bugs that keep the app from being top-notch. But the vent team is very receptive to feedback and takes users' words into account, which is very good. The one "bug" that I find very problematic as of now is that for whatever reason, all of my in-app purchases I spent on unlocking limited edition emotions were completely erased. All of the emotions I've previously purchased...about $12 worth...I have to purchase again. I'm hoping that the vent team will see my complaint soon and address it, and I'm not sure if anyone else is having this problem. Overall though, I'd say that if you look past the bugs, the app is very great and unlike any other social media you will use. It's my prime place to post because I truly feel I can be myself.