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concerned-ish...

heyy so i might delete this because well... i just don't want to come off rude or something, but here goes nothing-

DIY is an amazing website/app, i've had it for almost 3 years :) But i do have some concerns, DIY (it even says in the introduction) if for 6-16. Now i've come across a profile of someone over 16 (not an adult but still older these the targeted audience) There are people under 13 commenting and stuff on his posts, now this may just be me but- it just comes off as weird. I don't want to be quick to judge but it's also not like he posts a talent (like drawing, writing, etc.) All he does is post photos of himself and other teenage boy things. I was analyzing his profile and I see one of the mods saying that they took down two of his posts for not being fully clothed and guns/weapons. Now the weapon thing doesn't concern me too much (unless it was in a graphic way) but not being fully clothed??? I don't know about you but that seems like a MAJOR red flag, even if he's just posting himself without a shirt, keep in mind most of the users on here are MINORS, CHILDREN, and PEOPLE UNDER THIRTEEN. Shouldn't he be on something like Instagram or TikTok?? Now I don't want to be quick to judge but i've also noticed a lot of the things he likes are photos of girls. That is concerning to say the least. Guys i'm not 100% about this stuff but still, take this into consideration if you ever see this. Thanks again, a DIY user.

Great, but could use some editing.

The new D.I.Y is a wonderful app. I love the community, the rules, just everything and everyone. BUT, that dose not mean this app is perfect. No app is perfect. My first suggestion is to actually give penalties to rude D.I.Yer’s. They are out there, you know. There are also some things I would like to be added back. On the original D.I.Y you could search of usernames, posts, etc.
but on the NEW D.I.Y there isn’t an option to do that. PLUS, now you even need photo library access to do challenges. Here’s another thing; posts take LONGGGGG to compress/upload. Anyway, that’s it for now. But don’t get me wrong, this app is great! It just needs some editing, like any other app. :)

Thank you D.I.Y for responding to others comments and mine as well. I won’t do an email for now, but thanks!

Developer Response ,

Hi there! You should be able to post from your iPhone/iPad and we'll help get this fixed for you. Email us at help@diy.org and we'll figure this out 👍

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I used to love DIY back in 2019 until around the beginning of 2021 DIY was so much better back when it was called jam and back in 2019 and 2021 on the App Store they are still putting it like it used to be a app for kids to explore and create and stuff but here’s what I don’t like about it there has been a ton of challenges saying you can win a Apple Watch if you win this contest I just honestly don’t like it because kids aren’t doing it for the creativity anymore they’re doing it for the prize and I feel like they could be bribing the kids to do the challenges in away because the more kids just like to post now for like popularity and to get more followers and most like TikTok there is no cussing on here so it is a little bit better but there also was this one account with the name of Ted and then a few numbers that I can’t remember and they were posting not appropriate pictures and not fully clothed people it was so bad and the mods didn’t ban them until like a week or five days later so it’s just changed a lot there’s a way that you can when are ukulele on there and when a Rubiks cube and honestly it’s just ridiculous and then somehow there’s also a way to stop hunger and stuff and I did that and I was supposed to get an email about it saying that it was complete and I never did :(

Developer Response ,

Thanks for your review! Please recommend our app to your friends, and don’t hesitate to shoot us a note at help@diy.org if you have any questions.