Huddles: Connect with Creators for Pc

Vine was popular because anybody could make anything and become famous. Now what we have are the people who killed off Vine flocking back to the app making the exact same boring content they used to make 6 years ago. It seems very forced. Like all of the past content creators were reached out to and asked to post on the app. I have no problem with that directly, but the people they seem to have chosen are really annoying, unoriginal, and honestly unfunny. Thank goodness they allow you to block accounts. I got on the app for less than an hour and I already have 10 accounts or so blocked so I’m not forced into seeing their garbage content. The reason Tik Tok works so well is because it takes literally nothing other than posting a video to have a chance at going viral. I personally never making content, but i prefer new people with new content as opposed to people we all watched 6 years ago who are out of ideas. I was happy to see they were making essentially “Vine 2” but it’s basically just a bunch of “self claimed comedians”. I guess we got what we asked for.

I’m so happy that I’m “back in the loop!” 🤪 Seriously though, byte has the potential to bring back all the fun and feels that we had with Vine. I say potential because there are a couple things that I feel need improvement. First, I didn’t understand that the lightening bolt was where we can view comments & who is following us. Second, I don’t understand the rating system in my stats. I’d prefer this experience to not be a contest of sorts. I think that could take away from creativity and just having fun. One more thing; because of the framing of uploads (i.e., portrait mode), it’s a bit to, “in your face” and not all videos fit/fill the space properly. I’m more fond of landscape mode as it’s easier on the eyes and more realistic I suppose. Anyhoo, this is why I gave a 4 star instead of 5. I’m sure when all the bugs are worked out and such, I’ll be back to update my review. 🙂

My opinion on byte is that it is more like vine than tiktok and less like at the same time. Byte is the vine based 6 second looping video. It also is like vine as I don’t rember vine having any trends, it was just post random things you thought were funny. Tiktok has obvious tends that fade out in a month or two. I am a little confused about the user friendliness as you cannot abuse the video. That could be great if you could. The comment section is about as bad as it gets. There are no comments it’s just “FOLLOW FOR FOLLOW LIKE FOR LIKE” and I know that’s not really something they can control. As one reviewer said “this runs off of being the anti tiktok and new vine.” The videos on Every page are the same and you can’t refresh whether you on the home page, popular page or the your mix page. I don’t think that this will overtake tiktok as tiktok is now such a big app. My opinion is I’m going to stick with tiktok as I see the content there as better.

So love this, the layout is great, the choice to customize the icon and scrolling and all that in the settings is fun (an interesting touch to do that) for a first version it’s pretty good. Especially the tabs for everything, love that! Here’s what I’d like to see and what needs fixing. 1. I get booted off when I linger to long on the camera mode to make a byte. Might just be a small glitch like my phone can’t handle it, but if it’s fixable, that be nice. 2. There’s no music choices?! One of my favorite things I loved about vine was that I could have a selection of music or even pull from someone else’s video and save it. It was the first to have this and tiktok thrives with it! Please bring it to byte! 3. Bot issues. It’s only been a day and they are running RAMPANT. 4. Maybe start a challenge thing to help get the ball rolling? People on byte are trying to hard to make it like vine, calling it vine two. Maybe to make it stand out, byte could start a challenge a week thing for people to make videos for? nothing crazy, but something to get the creative juices flowing and get people competitive? Idk might just be me who’d love this. Kinda like the old days of selfie Olympics or something, call it the Big Byte challenge or something idk. But that’s all I got.