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Ah yes, 9gag, the beautiful app created to help pass the time. Whether you are bored at home, in a waiting room, or needing to pass the time for whatever other reason - 9gag is your companion. I've been a user for too many years to count (somewhere between 6-9 years) and I have enjoyed the ease of the app, the dank memes, but most of all the community. Since the app has asked me to rate them and I've been putting it off for some time now, I figure why not. These days the memes are more scarce than they once were and it seems like a lot of content gets through to the hot page that is questionable considering many of us have seen it for the millionth time. With enough time I'm sure I'll see it all but thankfully 9gag still is able to offer me some new things I haven't seen. Often I find myself cracking up at the comments more than the posts themselves but then again, I'm still entertained! And that is the point of the app. I'm giving this four stars because the app could be better. Mainly, I think the developers should find a way to stop recycled memes (as well as bs Twitter/IG screenshots) to find their way to the hot page as it is one of the biggest complaints that I see in the community and definitely one of my biggest complaints as well. Get past that and I think this app could come back to its former glory. Until then I'll just keep trotting along and making my way to the comment sections to have a good laugh.

Definitely loving the new update after they fixed the annoying scrolling bug however there are still issues that need to be addressed but I will only discuss two that I didn’t find highlighted in other reviews. 1. Video playback freezes when using the scrub bar and sometimes I get just audio when scrubbing while the video remains frozen. 2. What adds to that frustration is the fact that you need sniper aim with your finger on the scrub bar otherwise you just end up enabling the side menu (right swipe) or a different feed (left swipe) when fast forwarding or rewinding a video. Would be cool if there was an option to disable the swipe gestures all together because I find myself accidentally enabling them sometimes when scrolling the feed. Maybe when the swiping is disabled there could instead be two buttons on each side to activate them or the easier fix is maybe enabling it only when a user swipes closer to the bezel only and not anywhere on the app. Not sure if devs see our devices along with our reviews but just in case, I’m on an iPhone X with the latest software and I get the video freezing issue on both WiFi and LTE. And yes I have tried countless times reinstalling the app and deleting any pertinent history of the app off my phone as well as the app’s cache in the settings menu before I do a reinstall.

The new update has literally made things hard for me (not sarcasm :D) I see the same post maybe 3 times in a scroll. I see posts with 200 upvotes in hot. The posts are like scrambled, they are not in the order they were in the older version. Everything seems like a chaos and it’s really annoying. When I play a video and finish watching it, scroll down, another video comes, the cover is the same as the last one i saw, and when i play it, IT IS THE SAME VIDEO. But when i click on the title to go in, its the one meant to be. When im scrolling the posts keep jumping up and down all of a sudden, changing positions. The new update almost had me crying. Please please fix it cause i cant live without 9gag 💙

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This app became very visually unappealing. As I’m reading through I notice most and best reviews addressing actual issues are still rating 5 stars. How is that going to improve this app? Scrolling and viewing posts is different it seems we’re taking steps back because now you can’t scroll left and right, any sort of settings regarding your profile are not working. Why do I need to wait 6 days to change my profile picture yet you don’t have a problem selecting a random one for me before the 6 days is up? Everything is so SLOW and SLUGGISH, it seems SLOWER, less user friendly, you end up in the APP STORE about 15 times while using the app for 5 minutes because the ads and ad placement is just atrocious. Comments do not always post, the whole comment section of posts became worse and once again visually unappealing. Everything seems out of order and it’s so hard to view your notifications and know what is new and what is old. Is this 2008? It seems we went back 10 years.

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I understand a free app needs ad service to remain free; however, it’s beginning to affect how the app works. There are ads posted after every three posts and always an add at the bottom of the screen, which again, is completely fine. What I cannot stand is ads will also take over the screen randomly as you’re using it and will happen within 2-5 min of using the app. On multiple occasions, however, i was forced to close the app and reopen it as the ads could not be clicked out of. I’ve been using this app for years but I seriously think I’m done after seeing how ad service has more priority than the actual users. Way to go 9GAG, you sold out in the hopes people will pick up your overpriced “Pro” version while leaving the free users to use a broken app that essentially is a way for you to solely receive ad revenue. Fix your mess and go back to being the hub for a wonderful community.