BuzzFeed Reviews

I usually love this app, it’s always been my favorite time-killer. But lately BuzzFeed has been so difficult to use it’s not even worth it! When I go on BuzzFeed , it depletes my battery 30% in 5-10 minutes, and makes my phone burning hot! After browsing a little it inevitably crashes and force-quits. No pictures from Instagram ever show up in any of the articles, they’re just grey blank squares. And the ads have made even just scrolling so difficult because the main screen constantly rearranges itself.

And given how long this issue has been around, you’d think you’d have found a way to fix it; most of the time when I try to post a comment it either says I can’t, or does post it for a second but when I go back to look it’s disappeared! Same thing with likes and dislikes, they stay for a second but don’t stick.

PLEASE fix your app, this app. The comments and ads are one thing, but if your app keeps messing up my phone I won’t be able to use BuzzFeed at all anymore!

So I can’t even get on BuzzFeed the first time I tried to download it I couldn’t and then it broke my phone because after I tried downloading it, it wouldn’t then I went to go see if my cellular data being turned on for other things was the problem but it wouldn’t download so I got rid of it but when I went to go turn my cellular data back on it wouldn’t work. It’s been broken for months. Now I went to go see if maybe it’s that I need to finish downloading it but it said I already had BuzzFeed even though it showed up with the sign that mean I tried to download it before or I had it before and got rid of it. So pretty much it was a update. When it finished I couldn’t find BuzzFeed on my phone. So now I have a broken phone and sometimes BuzzFeed will pop up and say waiting like it’s trying to download but never will. To top it all off the only way to get into BuzzFeed is through BuzzFeed Store and one nothing loads and two it treats me like I already made an account but I never did. If I could give it 0 stars I would. It’s terrible don’t get it.

This morning saw an article tilted “Chinese-Made Smartphones Are Secretly Stealing Money From People Around the World” When I saw it I knew it was gonna upset me, but I clicked anyway. In the post, they are framing a Chinese-owned company that they’re stealing money from people. I read further in the post, and there was no actual evidence that they were stealing money. It upset me even more that the comments were agreeing with his racism. C’mon this app, why are you letting Craig Silverman, another white, racist Trump supporter write articles on your app. We get bullied enough by our eyes, what we eat, and even more so the coronavirus. A lot of your clothes, household items ,and cars were made, created, and manufactured in China, so are we gonna ban all of that too?! They’re never posts about White Russian spies. What are the White Russians stealing? They never talk about how white Hitler killed six million innocent Jews.
So this app, and Craig, shame on you, shame on you for doing all of this, when you don’t have actual proof of anything.

I love this app, and I spend quite a bit of time reading articles, taking quizzes, etc... A few updates ago, this app appears to have taken away my ability to stop videos from auto-playing, which I hate because (1) if I’m off WiFi, I’m wasting data and (2) my phone is a tad older (iPhone 6 Plus) so BuzzFeed ran smoother when I could stop auto-play.

With how BuzzFeed has been reformatted on the main page (articles interspersed with videos and ads) and then ads places within the articles, BuzzFeed is just clunky and glitchy. I find myself having to restart BuzzFeed often or BuzzFeed just crashes on its own.

I want to be able to stop auto-play again so I can enjoy BuzzFeed like I used to. I agree with those that find the Twitter links annoying, but honestly if I could get BuzzFeed to function properly, without crashing or slowing down for longer than 10 minutes, it would be amazing.

BuzzFeed has changed over the past couple of years, and it has become one giant platform for ads. Every other “article” is a shopping guide, and every other “quiz” is an ad for a store where you pick a few items from Store X to see whether you’ll find love next year (rolls eyes). I understand that this app has to make money and that it is a business, but c’mon. I feel bombarded with ads to buy this and that, like I’m not already flooded with ads from everywhere else. The quality of content has gone down despite their growing presence as real journalists. I’m happy that this app is growing, but they need to stop treating their readers and viewers like a heard of cash cows. The this app I knew and grew to love is now gone, and I am left disappointed and annoyed every time I open BuzzFeed .

TDLR: BuzzFeed is just posts and posts of ads, with a chunk of non-ad posts being content reposted from Twitter and Tumblr, and a hint of news articles that you can get on Twitter.

I use this app fairly often, but it’s time for them to stop renaming their articles to get more people to click on them. I HATE trying to read something thinking it’s new only for it to be the same article I read two hours ago but with a different title. Also, if you’re reading an article on the actual website - do NOT count on the blur to work for graphic images. It does nothing to cover them up and needs to be fixed ASAP. It works fine for BuzzFeed , but not the computer. In addition, a large portion of what they publish has become tasteless and 100% biased to the liberal side. I’m all for different opinions, but this app has turned into a site to bash anybody who disagrees with that side. I also don’t like articles that post about things that certain races are “ruining.” It’s racist regardless of what race is being discussed, and it’s not something of quality to read.

Some articles don’t display correctly when using BuzzFeed on my iPad in portrait. They appear to be off-centered, which cuts off the right side (pictures and text). The view seems to be ok on my phone.

I also wish there was a filter option to remove certain types of articles from the main stream, such as the ability to filter out quizzes and the “articles” that are thinly veiled attempts to sell products (but I’m assuming the reason this option doesn’t exist is because there would be nothing left in the main stream with these items filtered out).

If no other enhancements are considered or made, PLEASE give us the ability to sort the main stream chronologically so we can view the newest articles first and not have to wade through articles from days/weeks ago that are mixed in with the newer articles. This is one of the most annoying aspects of the current set up; please consider at least adding the option to sort by most recent.

I don’t know why this app decided to get rid of the Facebook comment section (i.e. leaving comments using the Facebook plugin) on its app, but now you BuzzFeed automatically forces you to only use the built-in this app comment section (which is absolutely terrible).

The this app in-app comment section makes starting any dialogue impossible. It’s harder to follow conversations because you can’t see who is responding to who, or if a sub-comment is responding to the original comment or to another sub-comment. You also can’t go back and edit (or even delete) comments after you post them like you could with the Facebook plugin comment section.

The comment section used to be where actual conversations were had about the articles and you could read and respond to other people’s opinions, but every since getting rid of the Facebook comment section, BuzzFeed just isn’t really weren’t opening anymore except to play quizzes or watch videos. I’ll probably delete it soon.

BuzzFeed would be phenomenal if they would fix one tiny SIMPLE issue; the links to the tweets. this app’s prime article sources are liars of funny tweets but something in the past couple of months (I assume related to the increase in characters available for tweets) has made it so that some tweets require you to click on it and get linked to your twitter app or twitter website and it is just annoying! It also kind of kills the funniness of the tweet when I have to scroll back and forth between the two apps. I’m extremely annoyed that this issue has not been resolved because I am not the only one that has complained about it. Every article I read at least 5 comments are complaining about the new link up. If this were to be fixed I would give this app 4.5 stars. Would have been 5 but they’ve already taken too long to fix the problem.

I would always use this app and i had my account with google and everything. but recently it wanted me to log in to use my account which is no biggie, so i type in my password and everything and it doesn’t let me log in. i try every possible password i could have used (even though the password was saved in my phone which always works when i log in) i even try reseting my password which doesn’t work and the reset like won’t sent to my phone. so i just thought lemme just wait and see if this all blows over or whatever and it will let me sign in again tomorrow. it doesn’t and it’s been like this for about a week now and i just want my account back, i have soooo many bookmarked things and i just want it back. also i’ve even tried logging in with another gmail and that doesn’t even work! so idk what’s going on but i want it fixed. PLEASE

I like this app’s content, it’s entertaining and there’s a wide range of things to look at/do. BuzzFeed needs a major overhaul, though, regarding the way it functions and user interface. One of the biggest issues is the comment sections. It is 2020 and BuzzFeed still doesn’t let you edit or delete your comment once you have posted it. This is a huge issue! I’ve also had issues with the “report” button, where I keep accidentally hitting it, then there’s no way to retract the report, nor is there a way to explain why you want to report that person if it was on purpose. The login is also obnoxious and complicated, and needs updating. Lastly, I would say this app needs a LOT of improvement on monitoring bots and very young kids. Every comment section I go into has quite a few bots, as well as kiddos saying “I’m 8 but this quiz said I’m a millennial” or something similar, which really shouldn’t be happening, since this app is an adult website with adult content (violence and disturbing photos in some stories, as well as sexually explicit stories/content).

i love this app for the quizzes and articles but i am SICK of getting notifications of spoilers from shows/movies that i am currently watching or going to watch. it makes me so mad and there’s nothing i can do about it. if you are going to put out notifications or specifically.. spoilers on shows or movies, don’t put out a notification written in a way that spoils the show. for example, i just got a notification on who gossip girl is on gossip girl and i haven’t finished the show yet and now all i can do is be mad about it. there isn’t anything suspense now that it’s spoiled so what’s the point in watching anymore. what you could’ve done with the notification is “gossip girl was supposed to be who?” instead of flat out saying who it is. please do better with the spoilers for notifications because i don’t want to have to turn off notifications for BuzzFeed just to finish a show that hasn’t been spoiled by this app. that’s all i am asking. besides that it’s a great app.

I love the majority of what this app has to offer. It is a very fun sight and I love their videos (particularly Lady Like, As/Is, and The Try Guys) What I have noticed and has bothered me quite a bit though is logging in was extremely hard, it would bring me to the website and work and then I’d go to BuzzFeed and it wasn’t logged in so I would try again and it wouldn’t. I want to be logged in so I can bookmark stuff I need later. Long story short even when trying to make a new account it was a hassle and it wasn’t the first time. But... today for the first time it worked (after messing with it for a while) and guess what it said... “this app is having trouble accessing your bookmarks. Try again later.” I did all that to bookmark something and I couldn’t... I tried again “later” task killed it and everything and still said the same thing... I am frustrated, please fix this bug or tell me what I am doing wrong this app cause I’ve had enough.

I’ve been experiencing a problem lately with some articles. If they have a tiktok video embedded, the video somehow becomes offset and goes slightly offscreen... and then the bottom of the video expands the entire time I’m on the page. I have to continually scroll to read anything below the tiktok or else I eventually end up with nothing but white. It makes it very hard to read, as many lists and even some news articles have these videos in them. I attempted to go to the this app page in the news app and the articles in question don’t even show up in there. I’m not sure what’s causing this issue, but it’s been happening long enough that even my non-reviewing self had to say something. I am going to try a few more things on my end, but I doubt my phone is the issue.

Before BuzzFeed I had always used the website which was glitchy and unsatisfying so BuzzFeed was great! I love going on here when I’m bored, sad, looking for a laugh, or interested in a certain topic. The animal section is my favorite and it is the highlight of my day. Only a few issues though, for one they have some issues in the documents for some posts if you open it the content will be stuck on the right side of the screen and you can’t see half of the text/pictures also for certain quizzes it will glitch when you press and mark your answer incorrect or also for quizzes it will not give you a result occasionally. One heads up is the new posts aren’t that close together new content takes a while most often the next day, otherwise great app for commuting and at home! You should definitely try it out!

I love app so much. I go on it longer then I go on tik tok. Do I do have one suggestion. When I first got BuzzFeed I divided to search up the umbrella academy it said nothing was found I found it weird so I just did the quizzes I found. After I found out that you had to be very specific in your searches. Instead of putting the umbrella academy I have to put we will guess which umbrella academy member you are by this quest I just got done with season 2. Like that makes me mad because of how specific it is. Like how are we going to now what to search if we have to be specific with every little detail. There should be a search bottom for specific and a search bottom for non specific. Pls make this change if you do I would give BuzzFeed a 5 star review. 💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛

From a person

Consistent and reliable. I find the user made content and interaction somewhat interesting. I’m trying to make quizzes now. I might hope people enjoy them as much as I’ve enjoyed the ones I’ve taken.

Previous or past use was sadly very political and I absolutely left the site because of it. The staff would try hard to press their political agenda in almost every post during an election. I would go to this app to relax and read mindless things like “I can predict what you ate last night”. I certainly didn’t want to go in there and read MORE of what I was trying to avoid.

I rate BuzzFeed and site highly for the content it delivers now. I would however of rated it quite low back when it irritated me with politics. I’m talking like two stars most likely.

I really love BuzzFeed, and I’m on it all the time, but I have noticed that whenever you do a quiz with the questions that automatically move you down, when you touch your screen, it automatically moves you back to where you were and you have to scroll back down. Not a major problem, just slightly annoying. Also, if you could make it where you don’t have to have a Facebook to have an account that’d be really nice. And maybe if you could make it where you can create a quiz or post from a smartphone or tablet. Those are just some recommendations, but I really love BuzzFeed and highly recommend it for anyone who likes taking quizzes, reading about celebrities, or reading current news.

I loved this app the moment I got it. First I was all in to the quizzes and the articles. Then I found ladylike and As/Is I love the positive vibes both shows give. It seems that all there shows make me laugh when I am feeling down. Someday I hope to give women equal rights to men and Ladylike and As/Is has showed me that’s possible.
Along with their videos I love the sim hundred baby challenge. Kelsey is so hysterical. I can’t wait for her videos to come out every Sunday. I love Chelsy and the kids.
For ladylike I give a shoutout to because you helped me release that the world is not the world without me and you and us making a impact. You girls are amazing I someday I hope to meet you.
Sorry this is so long but I have so many good things to say about this app and their amazing staff. So the next people and groups below are the ones the need to be Wreckonize for their amazingness:
Ladylike Devan Kristin Fred Chantel and Jen
As/is
Tasty
Multiplayer
Kasly impeach a K
Mike ladylike producer
The going 0 waste
And everyone at this app

Love you guys and girls

this app used to get 5 stars from me, but now the articles are completely biased, swayed 100% towards literalistic views, and trashy. If you’re not a liberal, this app completely makes fun of you & your beliefs, but then claims you are close-minded and ignorant (pot calling the kettle black much???) They also do WHATEVER they can do to bash our President, & they appear to be uncouth & tasteless. Obama on paper was a terrible president, yet this app wants to praise him & act like he’s God? It makes no sense; it’s all brainwashing. I wish articles that these people from this app write about the President & about politics was actually FACT BASED WITH SOURCES. The articles are just bitter. Also, the obsession with the Kardashians has to go... there are MUCH more important things going on in this world... hopefully this app cleans up their act or I won’t keep BuzzFeed much longer.

I opened BuzzFeed for the first time and immediately was upset. First of all, the actual design of BuzzFeed is pretty flawed. It’s supposed in categorical rows and columns, but I don’t know how they’re being categorized. Why is this article here instead of there? I don’t know. This isn’t even mentioning the boring aesthetic. Second of all, in addition to bad form, it was also bad function. The. Content. Is. Garbage. Bordering on useless, the “tips” are dumb. I don’t know, maybe you’ll be able to tell your friend: “She said my horoscope was Pisces, but this app said I was a Gemini, so... anyway...” And the articles. The freaking articles are so stupid. Who cares about somebody else’s opinion on some donuts or some crap? Don’t get me started on the quizzes. No, no, you know what? I’m started. This trash app got me started. “Hey, do you want to look at this clickbait test so that an algorithm can tell me who I am?” “Sounds like fun!” I disagree with a lot of the more political opinions of this company, and I agree with H3H3 that this app is the McDonald’s of Feminism, but that may as well be the icing on the cake with BuzzFeed.

Aside from the fact that I am constantly logged out of BuzzFeed (having to log back in every couple of days irrespective of whether I have commented or not) which is a huge frustration, I am so annoyed that this app had made the advertisements so sensitive. If my thumb accidentally touches any article surrounding a advertisement suddenly safari launches based on the ad. I knew this app was going south when it publicly laid off so many employees but making advertisements so insanely sensitive for mobile devices is an absurd and disgusting practice.

I used to really enjoy this app but now that I cannot even scroll without a constant safari page launching it is virtually unusable. For a site that was at the cutting edge of long form journalism a few years ago it has managed to knock itself into nothing because it makes it so hard to use its own app. Maybe this app should have expanded it’s actual journalism before firing so many staff members and making ads unavoidable.

If there was 0 stars this would be it. In fine with people having their own opinion and freedom of speech and all, but this toxic, idiotic, and overall bad app can work as an argument against that. The horrible thing is that they generalize the smallest communities and/or opinions and say that this is the reigning supreme, the overlord ideal for this group and “boy golly it’s horrible you definitely shouldn’t get it!” An example of this is Reddit. It has so many communities and people who are all usually nice to each other and help one another out. But this app takes the small communities of white supremacy followers and nazis that exist in almost every group (including this app itself), and inflates it like that is the overarching idea of BuzzFeed ! Not to mention that it constantly supports bad people who’ve done horrible things and acts as if everything’s ok. Then they take the people who have done great things for the world and accuse them of inane and career ending things (most of which aren’t even true!) But other than the community BuzzFeed is still a buggy, ad-ridden mess. In conclusion, don’t bother getting BuzzFeed, get Reddit instead.

I love this app’s content. There is something for everyone. Every time I go on, I can find something interesting. However, the ads are killing the experience, especially on BuzzFeed . I get it; this app needs to bring in revenue. Ads do that. But recently I have noticed more ads than ever. This would normally be annoying but expected and easy to ignore, except that they are getting in the way. Ads pop open and close, thus adjusting the screen display. I have to scroll up or down, often repeatedly, in order to get back to where I was in an article. Sometimes if I accidentally touch an ad as I am scrolling through an article, I am automatically redirected away from this app (thankfully this doesn’t happen as much as it used to). Most recently, and most annoyingly, I have found that article related pictures in BuzzFeed will not load after the first ad. I have tried reloading articles, reloading BuzzFeed , and even rebooting my phone. It is simply a glitch of some kind. There has to be a better way to generate revenue without ruining the experience for users.

listen, i love this app. some articles are stupid but fun, and sometimes i get news from them (not to mention quizzes!), but lately i (and clearly some other users) have been experiencing a “glitch” where when you open an article four or five new pages open up. it goes from instagram to another page that doesn’t load and back to instagram, resulting in me not being able to get back to the article i wanted to read in the first place. it’s gotten infuriating. when i first noticed this was happening i closed out BuzzFeed to reboot, and everything was fine. that was a while ago, now it’s still happening and not even rebooting will fix it. i have to wait days to read that original article, and sometimes i can’t even find it so it’s become a lost cause. on one hand i’m happy i’m not experiencing this alone, but on the other i think everyone is miserable. once this gets fixed, this app will be 5 stars.

I love this app!! The quizzes are probably my favorite part. I have definently taken over a million... any ways, I have told many of my friends about this, and I’ve quizzed a lot of them, I would recommend this app to anyone. Also, the other day I was looking through some of my old magazines, and the quizzes I found in the magazines reminded me a lot of this app 🤔. I guess that’s not important. But, a lot of the this app quizzes give true answers. I just took one to find out what type of dog I should get, and I got pit-bull. Funny thing is, I actually already have a pit and am about to get another!!
Thank you this app!! You are AMAZING!!
🥳🤪🤩😎🥰😆🎶😄🤣😇😜

I have poor vision and the app does not have accessibility features that allow for the increase in font size. There are many articles I skip reading because the font is too small and I do not have the time to sit with my iPhone and zoom in and out if each section of the article. Please help.