Good old app, but ads are out of control.
I’ve had the app since before you needed an account to post and the primary format was demotivational posters. The community is a little bit edgy in a good way, and content is usually pretty good.
Over time though, the advertising has become more and more disruptive though. Ads at the bottom of the screen are par for the course, but some of them have caused heavy lag and caused my older phone to thermal throttle.
Page ads are regrettable, and annoying in numbers, but can easily be scrolled past.
Ads in comments are disruptive when the text is in the same font as comments and seem at first glance like they could be part of the conversation.
The most annoying thing recently is the full screen interactive ads. It takes several seconds to load (or fail to load), several seconds to wait until you can skip the first part, than several seconds to skip the second part. They seem to only happen on first open or after being out of the app for a long time, but it’s much more difficult to get to the app part of the app now.
Many people also seem to be getting different features at different times. Some comments reference scrolling vertically instead of the traditional (for iFunny) horizontal scrolling. I still have the latter.
Get an ad blocker before you download this app. Apparently Lockdown is good? I haven’t tried it.
Over time though, the advertising has become more and more disruptive though. Ads at the bottom of the screen are par for the course, but some of them have caused heavy lag and caused my older phone to thermal throttle.
Page ads are regrettable, and annoying in numbers, but can easily be scrolled past.
Ads in comments are disruptive when the text is in the same font as comments and seem at first glance like they could be part of the conversation.
The most annoying thing recently is the full screen interactive ads. It takes several seconds to load (or fail to load), several seconds to wait until you can skip the first part, than several seconds to skip the second part. They seem to only happen on first open or after being out of the app for a long time, but it’s much more difficult to get to the app part of the app now.
Many people also seem to be getting different features at different times. Some comments reference scrolling vertically instead of the traditional (for iFunny) horizontal scrolling. I still have the latter.
Get an ad blocker before you download this app. Apparently Lockdown is good? I haven’t tried it.
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Would give 0 star if I could.
Just too many ads now. Like seriously, getting ads before opening the app??? Them between posts??? Even the comments are safe!!! Do not recommend, unless your trying to buy the products from the ads :/
The ad-apocalypse hits
Ifunny was a great site for just scrolling around but its gotten to the point where it adds it the unskipiable 10-15 second ads, really. No other social media does this. The video links cant be reposted in discord like you were able to do before, making it harder and harder to even share the memes that are not some sort of porn or propaganda to begin with. I used to enjoy this app but the devs are just making that harder and harder to do.
edit: almost forgot, along with the unskipable ads, there are memes that are just flat out replaced by it, ads on the bottom of the screen in a little bar the entire time, and ads shoved in-between each couple comments in every single meme. I haven't been here as long as most of the people (only around 4 years this up coming December) but that is long enough to know that the app once wasn't a giant billboard for stupid mobile games like every other phone app now days. I never really minded the small ads on the bottom of the screen or the ones that you would occasionally get in between each meme (I have even gotten to read some good web comics because of the ads every-once in a while. The ads in the comments seemed pretty bad but then this new unskipable crap is just unacceptable for an app like this. It's really sad to watch my favorite app become such a trashy piece of crap so fast because of a thing like the ad-pocalypse. Why do the devs have to do this to us, I just don't understand.
edit: almost forgot, along with the unskipable ads, there are memes that are just flat out replaced by it, ads on the bottom of the screen in a little bar the entire time, and ads shoved in-between each couple comments in every single meme. I haven't been here as long as most of the people (only around 4 years this up coming December) but that is long enough to know that the app once wasn't a giant billboard for stupid mobile games like every other phone app now days. I never really minded the small ads on the bottom of the screen or the ones that you would occasionally get in between each meme (I have even gotten to read some good web comics because of the ads every-once in a while. The ads in the comments seemed pretty bad but then this new unskipable crap is just unacceptable for an app like this. It's really sad to watch my favorite app become such a trashy piece of crap so fast because of a thing like the ad-pocalypse. Why do the devs have to do this to us, I just don't understand.
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Response from developer
Hi Dylanchristphorstone29292003, we apologize for any inconvenience caused by the ads. We understand that they can be frustrating at times. We are currently revamping iFunny to go back to the good old days. We appreciate your patience and hope that you will give us another chance in the future. Have more suggestions? Reach out at support@ifunny.co — we're here! Sincerely, iFunny Support Team.
2,680 Days
I’ve been using this for the past 7 and a half years and I really think this is the update that’s gonna break me. I’ve sat through update after update of “improvements” that have slowly alienated your user base further and further from you, you add actual improvements like saving videos only to remove the feature a month down the line. While I understand you are a company that needs to make money, the level of advertisements on the app has become absolutely ridiculous, you can’t scroll more than 3 memes at a time without coming across one and now there are ads in the comments separating every 2-3 comments. While all of these are quite annoying changes, they really are nothing more than minor inconveniences everyone loves to get upset about, but what’s more than a slight nuisance is your most recent entire overhaul of ui. It might not seem like a big change but moving the apps style of scroll to be the same as that of the browser website is the dumbest and most jarring change I’ve seen come to this app at least since the introduction of in app videos. 7 and a half years of mindlessly scrolling to the left and now I’m supposed to throw away 2680 days of muscle memory in favor of a “seamless timeline” that does nothing but take up more of the overall screen than needed and ruin my meme going experience.
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Response from developer
Hi BotSecurity, We apologize for the inconvenience caused by the recent update. We understand your frustration with the changes in the app's user interface and the increased number of advertisements. We are currently revamping iFunny and hope you'll give us another chance in the future. We'd love to hear your feedback and ideas for needed changes, so please feel free to reach out at support@ifunny.co. Let's reshape iFunny together! Sincerely, iFunny 🙂 Support Team.
Too many adds
It’s not fun anymore. Ads that you can’t skip. Ads in the comments. Going to delete it.
Loved this app for a year, been using it for 8.
Wanna know WHY I loved this app? Streamlined meme consumption. Are they stale? Almost always, but you can’t get more efficient than “swipe right for a new meme.” It was simple. But now, we’ve got ads at the bottom, we’ve got ads every two features, we’ve got ads between every other comment, but even that was fine, more or less. Just swipe past them, and you’ll never notice, but now we’ve got ads like mobile games, where you’ve got to wait five seconds to skip, then a second screen to close out. It defeats the entire reason people actually use this app. We’re not here because the memes are good or because we’ve got a great community (the memes are always old, and the community is every -ist you can think of); we’re here because it was, by far, the quickest way to consume internet culture, and now it isn’t. This app has gotten worse consistently every year, but now it doesn’t have any redeeming qualities left.
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Fricking wii haters
Everybody in a comment section kept disrespecting the Wii
Schizo meltdown
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Response from developer
Hi savex888$, High-five for the 5 stars! We're happy to hear you're enjoying iFunny. If you ever have suggestions or questions, feel free to reach out to us at support@ifunny.co. Thanks for being the iFunny legend! Keep rockin', iFunny 🙂Support Team.
I like the content but the app itself is beyond broken
Okay so I am using an iPhone 8 which is kinda dated now but this app is a phone killer. I assumed it was just my phone but there are many reviews from others with newer models saying the same things so here it is.
This app kills my phone battery faster than call of duty mobile for absolutely no reason. It will work just fine when you first open it but as soon as you double tap the home button (or swipe up, I know the thought of a home button scares some people) to return to another app, your phone starts BOILING and gets almost unresponsive to any inputs. I originally thought it was the new map feature taking my location and given that it’s a new feature there could be some bugs but even after turning off location privileges, ifunny remained absolutely trippin. I’m sad to give this a one star because I spent half my childhood on this app and it pretty much single handily created my sense of humor, but after revisiting a few years later it has become unusable.
This app kills my phone battery faster than call of duty mobile for absolutely no reason. It will work just fine when you first open it but as soon as you double tap the home button (or swipe up, I know the thought of a home button scares some people) to return to another app, your phone starts BOILING and gets almost unresponsive to any inputs. I originally thought it was the new map feature taking my location and given that it’s a new feature there could be some bugs but even after turning off location privileges, ifunny remained absolutely trippin. I’m sad to give this a one star because I spent half my childhood on this app and it pretty much single handily created my sense of humor, but after revisiting a few years later it has become unusable.
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Ads
Remove ads in comments,
i will start using the app again when ads are removed from comments.
i will start using the app again when ads are removed from comments.
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