Hornet - Queer Social Network Reviews

by RavenHale

I recently installed Hornet and was going to sign up for premium but I decided to check the reviews first and judging by the overwhelming negativity and the lack of responses to these claims about Hornet I will not only not be going premium but I will be deleting Hornet as soon as I am finished writing this, some of these issues seem pretty severe I suggest that you address and seriously work on resolving them because I see I am not the first and doubt I am the last that will be scared away by this

by DJJD1023

Could be so much better. Needs a few changes to really compete with other apps:
-ability to delete recently sent pics (you should be able to curate these so one off photos can be eliminated)
-the ability to paste in text is crucial if you’re translating and yet has not worked since the last few updates. WHY?! Bring it back.
-built in translator would be stellar and nobody is doing it (could be huge selling point)
-blocking mechanism is slow (figure out how to make it faster)
-search doesn’t refresh automatically as it should
-there seem to be way too many clicks to do something and then even to go back - someone should try to improve user experience by decreasing clicks needed for any action
-I’ve got tons of ideas. Feel free to reach out if you’d like help. Applied for beta testing but haven’t heard anything.

by Hugalex

I’ve been on this site for a few years. But all of sudden in the past two months pretty much everyone who is approaching me are scammers. It starts with photos from attractive 20somethings, and leads to asking you to go Google Hangouts so chat is taken off this site. So far it is always someone from Africa/Togo to be clear, impersonating someone in the US Military. Several times it has led to asking me to send them a phone as theirs isn’t working well, but they seem to be communicating fine from their phone, to claims they are in Afghanistan and have an ulcer from the food on Base and are looking for help funding their off-Base restraint bill. In all cases it was easy to see the unsophisticated deception as the person on the other end isn’t really talking proper English. Their texts are often off grammar, miss basic Americanisms that anyone would easily type. One of these was Bradley Davidson another today was Kokey Wagner....I’ve blocked them but for what I can see this site is 100% fake people and as they aren’t monitoring this may be helping scammers to take advantage of you.

by Rick Boeker

Seriously ranks among the worst gay “social” apps ... only download this if you want your in-box to be constantly hit with messages from bots advertising other websites and apps ... oh, and the paid advertising messages too.

Tragic and horrible and a waste of time - the developers clearly have no filters in place to detect fake / spam accounts and asking users to police accounts for them is a joke ... after flagging 25 profiles and deleting / blocking spam messages, now I’m barraged with messages from the “moderator” thanking me for reporting and that they’ve identified the problem and fixing it.

Too late! This morning’s latest onslaught of spam messages - deleting my profile and uninstalling! Wish I could give less than 1 star - DON’T WASTE YOUR TIME WITH this app ... guess I’ll stick with the original, old school Grind’r

by MacsRule43

Lately the only messages I’ve been getting are from people somewhere past 7,000 miles away that want me to “find them” on another site. Or they are in the military in Africa but will be home soon. Or offering to put a decal on my car for $400 a week with a fake cashiers check. Or wanting to exchange sex for money. Anyone I’ve messaged does not respond, and the ones that have need money or a place to stay. This used to be a decent app. Now not so much. I’m about to delete Hornet because of the spam. Just like 99% is spam. And it seems to be more that I report it. Oh that’s it the developer is being paid to allow the spamming and the reported profiles are tagged with who reported it and they get the most spam. I get it now! Shady shady af

by Suiew1977

Hornet needs to be reformed and updated. It’s been so hard to sign up and to login to that I quit using Hornet altogether.

I would love to see Hornet to be more intuitive to use, and not ask me about my outside social media, because I don’t know what you’re doing with my information.

Also this app app should no longer requires you to have a Facebook account in order to enable it, So many people have left Facebook. As among many others issues I and the majority of my friends have with Hornet.

by Jace757

After 5+ years of using Hornet I decided to delete my account and Hornet . There is nothing but spam on the actual app. Most of my notifications in a day were just spam bots reaching out and the developers do nothing to stop this, despite what they say in review feedback. This has been a problem for years and there has never been a noticeable difference.

Aside from that, the amount of advertisements from this app and other businesses is out of control. Advertising is expected, but it shouldn’t be in my inbox. The amount of advertising is too much and is the main reason for me deleting this horrible app. They’re all about money opposed to listening to the people who use their app.

by Lavender X

Lot of fake profiles on these “LGBTQ+” social networking apps. I just recently uncovered a profile on Hornet using my friend’s photos. It was definitely not my friend and he confirmed it. Of course the fake user was making political discourse... I really think these “LGBTQ+” social apps might be an attempt to make identity politics out to be more popular than it truly is. I used to be more progressive minded, as were a number of my friends, but when you see most real LGBTQ+ people in person are nothing like on these “LGBTQ+” social networks (whom the media doesn’t seem to publicize as much as they do the “elites”), you realize there’s something off about the ebb and flow of these internet social networks. But then this is just for cyberloafer people without real jobs that moreso waste their time online. This is where the propaganda for identity politics flows. In my own experience, I think the discrete political movement to try to propagate our LGBTQ+ community are falling apart, which is good. Their little elite failure groups only have the Internet. All the rest of us are live in person and not buying it. If this wasn’t true, then these app developers would fix the spam problem, but obviously they could care less, and We the LGBTQ+ People are aware of all the fake internet posers.

by XxFemmyFoxX YouTuber

Hornet randomly suspended my account for “public pictures breaking the guidelines”...
My profile does NOT break any rules of Hornet I NEVER EVER EVER send nudes or publicly post nudes. All my pictures are of me and they are 100% CLEAN from the waist up ALWAYS, or pictures from my personal life with either my best friend or CLEAN AND FRIENDLY social media posts. They have absolutely no reason to suspend my account, I’ve never ever violated any terms!!!! If you read this... Please give me back my account!!!!
NONE OF THE PICTURES ON MY PROFILE BREAK THE TERMS OF Hornet AND NONE KF MY PICTURES BREAK THE GUIDELINES!!!

by Neo King Serenity

So as we know many of these apps are created by gay men. The set up their rules and standards. Grindr is another like this. So you have probably some gay dude who only allows what he thinks as hot and sexy to post full body in only underwear showing but if someone who isn’t ripped who does a full body in underwear they violate the rules. I went through and sound countless sexually explicit photos for public view. Also so note these explicit photos were of really hot guys. Well I guess that the biz if you want to attract guys to your app you need to put the meat out there. this app your no different than Grindr. Whoever is approving the profiles and photos is probably jerking off to the hot guys and denying the average guy to post similar pics.

by Guten Morgan

Here a Bot, There a Bot, Everywhere a Bot, Bot!

Update 2018: My buddy and I have a bet. Will you help settle it? I say that 75 % of the guys on here are fake. Cat fishing. Robots.

He says it’s at least 85%. Which is it? Or is it higher?

If I were to go off of the contacts I get, it’d be 100%. Can’t you fix that? I have better luck with Sister Betty Bower’s Prayer Phone List!!! SAD!

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A year ago, this site was much better. I decided to stay on the other night and was contacted by almost 20 men! Yeah! Except they were all from overseas, most “serving in Army” and wanted me to join them on KIK or Google or Text. Of course, that is when they get your info and start sending links to spam you and ask for money. None ... NONE were legitimate people. None ... NONE were local people. All ... ALL were fake (stolen) profiles. Yes, they were THAT obvious and they all followed the same pattern.

Fix this and you’ll be a good site again.

by Johnathandjvisonfvuonfevunfe

On a post about how the Wachowski Brothers became the Wachowski sisters I left a comment outlining all the reasons why they are setting a bad example for others and why going through gender reassignment is a bad idea, for example the suicide rate is 20 times higher among those who have gotten gender reassignment versus those who haven't, but the this app community doesn't care about having an open discussion, they don't care about freedom of speech. For them if you don't fall in line with the talking points of the Democratic party, no matter how insane they are, you should be silenced.

by Haskell54

I’ve been on Hornet for about a month. I have to say more than 75% of people reaching out to me are fake profiles. When I ask them where there from I have gotten the exact response each time. “I’m on a Peace keeping mission overseas and will be back in the states soon”. You can almost here there accent in the way they write, and don’t forget about the really bad spelling. Had one guy say he was from “Texas, Houston”. When I corrected him, he told me I was incorrect. I emailed the editor of Hornet and explained the recurring problem, he responded with BYE! Hornet is a joke, don’t waste your time...

by Ssalehi85

So many fake profile and yet the developers are not interested in putting more security to get ride of them, all you need to do is type and email address and pass and boom! You are in.
Also i have no idea who is monitoring the photos, i guess its computer generated because i put photo with cloth on and it says it has violated the rules and deleted my photos, seriously guys, work on your app for pit sakes, or maybe its another fake Chinese company ...

by Bksrmt

A nice idea though I don’t see the need to categorize the chats as they are. The main problem are the fakes; at best they waste time, but at worst they’ll scam you out of money and potentially your identity. I don’t know if that’s really possible, but I’m sure lots of folks enable location tags on pics and I know one’s email is linked to many apps, including bank apps. Even if that isn’t a problem, this app needs to do more. If I, a user, can find where the same photo has been used in three profiles, then surely a tech company can do the same- and I’ve reported quite a few profiles. I have a photo storage app that automatically identifies and collates pictures of people; why does this app do that? I’ve been chatted up by no fewer than FIFTEEN fake scammers in one week. this app does offer nice advice on instant protestations of love and “too good to be true” issues, and boy do these fakes deliver there. Military, on a mission but coming home soon, maybe a dog or two... strange though, that a guy supposedly born and raised in the states can’t type in English. It’s more than just grammatically poor, it’s absolutely incomprehensible. this app needs to find a way to weed these out somehow. I’ll be deleting my account soon, but I’ve started having fun messing with the fakers’ minds a bit. If all I can find are fakes, I don’t need it.

by Balleng6

It seems that my profile attracts people from Africa and the Caribbean who seem to have no money and wish me to open bank accounts and other items to help them in their quest to gain their inheritance even had one guy state that he was in the Air Force and Afghanistan and got a large reward for helping a sultan save his family then he pulled the trick Of trying to have me give some person $5520 just to get his Reward back to the United States Think there are lots of scammers on the site so beware

by World's Foremost Expert

Used to be awesome for meeting people nearby, but sadly now loaded with scam artists from a few foreign countries, who have no idea how conspicuous they are. Still good for eye candy. Not giving up on other types of candy, either, but all the "joined yesterday and now messaging you from 7 thousand miles away to tell you how badly I want an LTR" guys are a bit too much. They are the ones with commercial modeling promotional pictures from twenty years ago, who think posing in front of luxury items makes them seem somehow more legitimate.

by NoStoppin

I have always loved learning about other cultures and how people live their everyday lives. this app’s Feed section, until recently, has been a way to get a glimpse of this especially in Asia, Russia, and South America. That part is wonderful. The last 3 months or so I get 3 or 4 stings a day from OBVIOUS fakes generated by this app. I guess they think we are stupid. Over 3500 follows on a profile that was created today?

Posting in my feed about this results in the post disappearing. Replying to this profile with the question results in the message disappearing...

Image search on google usually finds the profile pictures belong to someone on Instagram or similar..

this app has gone bad and the way they are doing it is SO OBVIOUS that I question why. What do they stand to gain, unless Hornet itself is malicious? I’m sad because browsing the Feed section has become my morning cup of tea activity, but I am seeing a sharp drop in activity there so by by this app.

by Daniel.ricardo

I bought this iPhone from a friend and Hornet was blocked for his account, I 've sent several messages tô te developers and they ask for information of my friends account that I don't have It. It was his account that blocked this phone and I bought this phone without knowing that Hornet was blocked for his. I do not have anything to do with what my friend did. I Just bought an iPhone that was blocked because of him.

by Trevor Knowlton

this app is an awesome app. It by far leads in features, ease of use and safety.

When a user signs-up, they get to set up their profile with multiple photos and a cool feature where you can have up to 4 private photos that you can enable/disable within the messages. I also love the consent of the this app badge.

Hornet reminds me of if Instagram and Grindr had a baby and named it this app. It combines location based profiles with versions filters similar to grindr but also has the ability to search usernames, hashtags, as well as create posts and follow users.

I also love that this app is constantly working to create a great community where users get rewarded a this app badge when they are authentic. This is a great concept to help removing bots and and bad people.

Thanks this app ! 🏳️‍🌈 💚 💛 💜 🖤 🤍

by Diehajqd

Hornet has become a pain go even use and getting worse by the day. The pop-up ads are RELENTLESS - and lately increasing in length and frequency. I often get pop up ads I can’t get rid of for at least 10 seconds after EVERY FEW CLICKS on Hornet . And NOW, there is NO way to exit an ad without CLOSING Hornet ! ALSO, chat no longer allows you to paste from Google Translator- a necessity if you want to chat with someone who speaks another language. It’s as if they’re TRYING to destroy the usability of Hornet, which was never great to begin with. This is getting ridiculous.

by Mc4asia

2 stars for trying but the end result is Hornet just tries your patience. It’s needlessly complex with chats divided into Primary, Requests and All - which is made worse by false alerts for new messages when what’s really happened is that a previously opened message somehow changes back to new unopened. Message alerts do not go away easily - you need to refresh each type of chat to kill them dead.
As others have noted: Pop-up ads are constant and like those alerts are like the undead - they just keep coming.
On the plus side you can now copy the text in a profile and copy it to Google translator, which here in Thailand is very helpful.
KISH: keep it simple, this app and it’ll work a lot better.

by Visitinginchgo

It seems that my profile attracts people from Africa and the Caribbean who seem to have no money and wish me to open bank accounts and other items to help them in their quest to gain their inheritance even had one guy state that he was in the Air Force and Afghanistan and got a large reward for helping a sultan save his family then he pulled the trick Of trying to have me give some person $5520 just to get his Reward back to the United States Think there are lots of scammers on the site so beware

by Milotunes

Hornet itself is fine, and I used to use it quite regularly. Recently, however, spam (fake profiles asking you to visit a website) is out of control. I've turned off notifications because of it; please work on a filter to get back to how good Hornet used to be.