Anonymous chat app Yik Yak is back from the dead

guest · Aug 16, 2021

Anonymous chat app Yik Yak is back from the dead
August 16, 2021
https://www.engadget.com/anonymous-chat-app-yik-yak-is-back-from-the-dead-183103824.html

Anonymous messaging apps were all the rage back in the mid-2010s. Yik Yak, one of the most popular of those back in the day, shut down in 2017, but now it's back from the dead. A new version has hit the iOS App Store.

Yik Yak is only available in the US and on iPhone for now, as Mashable notes, but it will expand to other regions and devices soon. As before, it's a message board app that connects you to other people in a five-mile radius.
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Along with mental health resources and guidance on staying safe, the app's website lays out extensive "community guardrails."
Although community management is a tough nut to crack and anonymity adds an extra hurdle to enforcing rules, outlawing a broad range of harmful content at the outset is a positive move.

After Yik Yak shut down in 2017, partly because many of its users moved to other apps like Snapchat, Square bought some of the app's intellectual property and hired several engineers. It's not yet clear who's behind the new version.
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