Wakie Chat – Talk to Strangers 17+

Not for kids

I've been on Wakie for 2 months now.
PRO
-meet and chat to people around the world
-diverse range of topics to join
-numerous groups to join for open mic
-24/7 activity
-make friends online
CON
-a larger % of males, some which can be quite "thirsty"
-decent conversation can be quite sparse with all the attention seeking topics
-potential trolling, bad manners, lewd behaviour can be common.
OVERALL
Met some amazing people, but you have to go into this with a thick skin and open mind. Majority of the friendships you make will be very short lived. And picking through brain vomit topics to find someone to chat to can be frustrating.
Definitely don't recommend for anyone under 16 due to some of the content that people openly express. Although some 30+ people on there. Vast majority are young adults 16-early20s.

Was interesting initially, now waste of time

This was one of the first apps I used, early after it was initially released. The initial concept - a human connection from across the planet at that most vulnerable moment of trying to wake up - was lovely. I used it a few times to receive calls and called others. With the exception of a few random pervs, it had potential. Then they went and complicated it way too much. Now it is indistinguishable from other chat apps, only it is not as good. The random pervs seem to dominate the app. And the wake up tool is difficult to find or use on the app.

For me though, the final nail is the fact that for the past 3 months or so, since update version 2.8.15, the app language changed from English to Arabic. The fact that weeks later and 8 or so updates later they have yet to notice or fix this issue speaks very loudly on my lack of place in this environment. It’s a shame, but only look for the next team to implement this idea - Wakie is no more.

Update: version 2.9.3. - update summary language finally changed back to English. App name still in Arabic though. It is to the developers credit that they release updates so frequently, but as I wrote before I am not sure they are clear on what kind of community they are expecting.

Developer Response ,

Hello Nick. In order to make our community larger adding new features is absolutely normal in the developing process. We're sorry to know you're not liking it anymore, we still have an alarm option to get wake up calls, you can find it right in the preset voice topics.

Answering your doubts, the kind of community we're expecting is a friendly, welcoming, happy and equal for everybody. And we're trying our best to make it stay this way, but we can't do it unless you help us get rid of sexual, racist and trolling content by reporting them. We'll look into this language issue you mentioned. Thank you.

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