Janet T.

I want to say that I've been a user of Pinterest for many years just for design inspiration. I have thousands and thousands of pins in numerous boards, including sharing secret boards with groups from my university. The new Pinterest is a pain.

1. On the Apple device apps, you can no longer move a pin from a secret board to another secret board. This was not previously the case. It's still an option that is available on the desktop version, but not the apps? And the apps also crash consistently rendering it almost useless and frustrating while browsing. With app updates every two weeks, they're only making Pinterest worse by moving functions around, making users have to scavenge to find options.

2. The "suggested pins" and advertisements are extremely out of hand. It was tolerable once but now my home feed is almost more advertisements and suggested pins that are just not relevant to me in ANY way at all. Plus some of them are beyond ridiculous, advertising me club/party dresses with a provocative mirror selfie image as the pin. Are you serious? I don't follow anything related to that kind of content. I spent more time trying to get rid of these things than viewing my own things.

3. The new interface is so ugly and confusing. Just to simply "log out" which should've been obvious on the top right corner ends up with a user having to go to their profile > icon with three dots > sign out. Really?

4. Pinterest is like Tumblr. You cannot browse content unless you have an account. Since I have an account already, I don't mind, but it's inconvenient for others who don't wish to make an account.

Sooner or later, it'll just be easier for me to download all the Pins locally to folders on my computer. I only need the visual image, not the URLs, so it's probably easier for me. If Pinterest can't even get themselves corrected, I can't trust them managing my thousands of pins.

I was using Nitroflare since it first came out. It was known to be quick and inexpensive. Now, I realized they capped the maximum bandwidth to an extremely low number which makes it impossible to use it even for design files such as Photoshop PSDs. Whoever thought 25GB is a good limit must be insane, not even enough for a few high quality videos. On top of that, the cost is the same as it was before. Now, I'm just sitting here waiting for the next day just to download a few PSD files. Extremely inconvenient. If you download less than 25GB a day on average, then this file host service is for you. However, everyone I know who uses this exceeds that limit at least half the monthly. Bottom line, if they're going to lower the daily bandwidth, then the cost per month should also be lower. I also wouldn't have been mad about the capped download limit had they mentioned it. But I stupidly purchased an account not knowing they made that change. It isn't stated anywhere when purchasing either. I won't be using them for large files anymore.

I keep my Facebook account only for marketing and for potential clients. Other than that, this website breeds nothing but annoyance. In fact, Facebook is like the Tumblr of adults where everyone wants to have a say in social and political issues, but can't express it in a nicer way. When used inappropriately, this website just touches the highest point of bullying, harassment and humiliation.

On top of that, Facebook wants access to everything of yours, so if you're a private person, you should probably post less about yourself. They read your private messages, look at your sent photographs, and uses your account to access other websites' social plug-ins in order to target advertisements to you. Is it creepy enough that products I don't ever mention to anyone or anything on Facebook somehow pops up after I use it in real life? Are they using global surveillance on me or something?

Don't even get me started with their iPhone apps. Every week is an unnecessary update that makes the product worse and worse. Facebook also doesn't have a sense of privacy. They notify all my friends publicly about events on I'm interested and what I post into other public group, and they also destroyed the algorithm for the news feed so now I get almost no views of my photography. The Trending panel is also an annoying feature that I despise. I honestly don't care if a celebrity decided to get naked for a magazine or a video went viral because it was so "cute".

Lastly, like another reviewer said, Facebook all of the sudden seems to reject their own policies on pornography. I've reported many porn images and a lot of explicit sexually related content and none of them ever get deleted. They would just tell me "oh, sorry, we looked at this and decided it didn't match what reported, thanks for letting us know anyway". They ignore their own rules about violations.

Spotify is a great website. I use the web player a lot and it performs almost as well as the standalone application for the computer. The interface is easy to use, navigate and organize. It has a lot of musicians that I want to listen to. The premium version is inexpensive. I haven't had a single issue with Spotify.

Gmail is an excellent service. It's fast and has a great interface, however everything else is questionable to me.

1. It has a tendency to get spam at certain volumes in only certain amount of times. Often, they are fake Chinese companies trying to sell fake products. I only expected this from Yahoo, not Gmail.

2. The idea of having to have a Google Account just to use Gmail is irritating. It would've been nice if it was an option to merge all Google Services to one account, instead, they force users to create a full Google Account just to use Gmail.

3. Along with the Gmail account, you're also pushed to use Google's failed G+ connected to it. And deleting the G+ account still makes it complicated to change, remove or edit your "Gmail" avatar image. It was buried all the way in Picasa Web Albums (what the heck?)

4. Google Drive is necessary for files over 25MB which is convenient but come on, really? Users are forced a Google Drive account into their Gmail "Google Account" so you have to upload your files there. Plus, 25MB is such a small number when even one PDF can exceed that limit. They're purposely luring users to use the Drive feature.

Overall, if you just want a good email service and don't care about your privacy or the additional Google Account, this is for you. If you value your privacy and only want a good email service, look elsewhere, although there really aren't many options.

I know Flickr has been the biggest photo sharing website popular to photographers. I'm a casual photographer and I had to sign up for this when I took a course in digital photography. First, I'm not too happy about having to sign up with Yahoo just have to a Flickr account. It's like what Google pulls people to do with having a Gmail and a Google Account.

Second, the navigation is complicated and confusing, in my personal experience. It's really hard to navigate and the batch organizer looks really outdated. It's like you could go to the same page in two different ways for no reason. Deleting photographs or editing data on it is hard to find and also could be done in multiple obscure ways.

I'm deleting my account right after my photography course is over.

Netflix used to be the BEST streaming service. Generally speaking, their servers are the quickest and the user interface is the friendliest out of all that I used (HBO Max, Hulu, Disney+, Amazon Prime Video, etc.) But their content is straight up trash. I respect anyone who wants to disagree, but as a younger millennial (currently in my early 30s), Netflix's agenda of pushing their woke content is becoming ridiculous.

First they took away their review system and star ratings years back when I used to use them. That was helpful on what I could watch. Now, they don't provide that option. Then they had the thumbs up/down and they ditched that too. So everyday, they want to push their own crappy content to you and their endless amount of TV shows.

They don't even tell you what movies are foreign and don't make it clear what languages are default so when you start playing, you realize you have to watch subtitles. I'm ok with reading subtitles but not everyone is and it's not always convenient.

Their synopsis writing for their selection is terrible. The synopsis doesn't tell you anything about the movie until you actually watch it and waste your time on some stupid story. A lot of them are also poorly written and don't make sense grammatically which is shocking for a billion-dollar company.

Then, because you can't find out what the movie is about or get an idea from other users/ratings, you have to look it up yourself or end up wasting your time watching their pushed content. They also have some of shuffle feature which shuffles their Netflix original and pushes it onto you.

To add insult, they have the audacity to raise their subscription prices when they have absolutely no content. Unless you want to turn something on for background noise or waste your time laughing at how bad a lot of their content on, don't even bother. I unsubscribed almost a year ago and never looked back and I don't miss Netflix at all. I also cancelled Hulu for the same reason and I'm aiming to canceling Prime Video too. Don't let these media companies control you.

FYI: if it weren't for The Witcher (which I heard they're about to butcher also), 1899 and the Jeffrey Dahmer limited series as of late, this company would have nothing to hang on.

It makes me wonder what direction Neopets is going to go in. The total users worldwide probably adds to less than the amount of students in my high school now.

I was a user since 2001 and it started out very relaxing and fun. In a few years, they decided to sell out and their website put placements for a few advertisements. It was tolerable and all rated G. Not a problem.

A year later, they sold out entirely and there were at least four advertisements in every page. Not to mention those awful pre-loading screens on every game that took ages to load on dial-up. Their games became sponsored by Disney movies like High School Musical, various brands of cereal, etc.

The staff is not very helpful towards users with frozen accounts or users who have been banned for unfair reasons. They are selective and uncaring, and make rules or sudden new rules to suit themselves but not their users. The players on the boards are either young adults or older people who are so full of themselves. Finally, let me explain why most people I knew decided to stop playing this game either early on when it first came out or later when Neopets sold out: because it's impossible to achieve anything in this game.

Getting a million Neopoints is a difficult task on its own, and by just playing a few games, it could take well over a year to get that. If that's the case, can anyone imagine trying to earn 50 million NP or 100 million NP for those Battledome weapons and other useful paintbrushes and potions? No. It was out of reach for probably 90% of players. Basically, anything that can make the game more useful or interesting for you is impossible to achieve so why bother?

That was why cheating was rampage. Because no one could make that many Neopoints legitimately. High scores for trophies were impossible to achieve. Random events rarely ever happened, not even bad ones. All items within the game, even sold by NPCs were expensive. Training your Neopet was expensive. Quests were all time limited so strictly that you can never get the item you need in time at later levels of the quest. Only people with high speed internet at the time was able to grab the rare items first, or play those "click here, load, click again, reload" games like solitaire. It was impossible with dial-up (the time when the game mostly existed).

The game slowly disappeared from people's lives for one reason or another and now it's just an artifact of gaming from the dial-up days of the internet. Neopets has made no effort to develop a mobile version of its game (so far). It provides no incentive to even go back to the web-based game. It basically lost its touch in the world of internet. It's outdated and since most people are ditching Flash for HTML5, Neopets' flash-based games will be a thing of the past.

This once "free" game with some advertising became a massive bloat of ads and then started to ask you to pay for Neopets Premium. Then you had to pay for items and then Neopet clothes. Now, you probably have to pay for everything. Neopets had its time and now it offers nothing. You guys seriously ruined Krawk and Draik's original look enough. Please just go away now.

Yahoo's time of existence should've ended when high speed internet became commonplace. There's absolutely nothing useful about Yahoo the past 15 years I've known them. The homepage looks like trash; filled with useless news about celebrities, models or other things that don't really qualify much for actual news about the world. Yahoo hosting is awful and has a very ancient control panel, and it's also terrible with the Wordpress platform.

A Yahoo email is just about as useful as nothing. Everyone I've met in my life from school, work, anywhere have had their Yahoo email hacked and constantly sending me spam. The email's overall inbox interface is ugly.

Flickr is great for photography, but you can only sign up by creating a Yahoo account which now seems to require you to enter your mobile phone number, and it's mandatory. Yahoo acquired Tumblr and ever since then, Tumblr still hasn't made much of a comeback. Yahoo Answers is filled with nothing but trolls and bullies.

I purchased a tablet from them and I won't even get into why the quality of the product was horrible. Nevertheless, the screen was acting up so I couldn't do anything on it. I called them up the third week it acted up. Might I also note that the product was literally two weeks old when it was starting to have problems and I couldn't return it to the store due to a 14-day return policy.

I did the warranty claim, whatever. Charged me money to ship the product back to them. They had my broken tablet for two months, nearly the entire summer. Never told me why until I called them up and they told me the repair parts for my tablet was "backordered".

After almost three months, they sent me a brand new replacement. I sold it online and never wanted to deal with this company again. For those three months that this tablet was at the "warehouse to fix", I purchased myself an iPad and didn't have a problem since.

I was pressured to sign up for this in college. I was going to recommend this to a few of my friends because I thought the concept is great for designers who want to make money. However having it for a few weeks, it's nothing but an additional necessary headache that I don't want anyone to endure, not even people I despise.

A lot of requests there have very fast turnover rates, in that case, it would be difficult to come up with something breathtaking in two days. With that being said, you could follow what the customer or client wants and they would still tell you they don't like it. I didn't like the rating concept nor do I appreciate seeing other people creating designs similar to mine after viewing mine.

If you want to make money, seriously network and find real clients who aren't jerks like this. This website is so difficult to work with especially if you don't see your client on the other end. Constructive criticism isn't even the word used to describe how a design can get a poor rating because the client fails to see what THEY want themselves.

The contests idea is pretty cool until you realize you submit work to them numerous times and haven't made a single buck in weeks. It's a waste of time. Seriously, don't bother with this. If you're a designer and think you're getting quick money by using website like 99Designs or similar places that offer you freelance work, think again. Research first.

I have no complaints about Madewell. They always ship strictly with UPS which means there's no SmartPost (going through USPS and taking extra days to deliver). Their customer service is friendly, helpful, good return policy, and their products are overall good quality.

My BIGGEST complaint (which is why I dropped one star) is the fact that this website still lists "out of stock" items even when it has been months since the item was out of stock. It's really frustrating to look at, as I wanted some of the out of stock items. Madewell leaves them up for absolutely no reason except to torment people.

Other than that, I seriously have nothing bad to say about Madewell. They often make mistakes in their orders, but they are generous enough to refund you and even suggest that you can keep the previous item or return if you choose to.

I sell on this website but never bought and don't plan to. I use Poshmark along eBay to give my listings more exposure, in order to clear my inventory faster. I gave this platform several chances in the past, but sold absolutely nothing, and only had beggars, lowballs and trade requests. I gave it a chance again, and this time, I did make sales. I give extremely accurate detailed descriptions of my items including when I got it, why I don't want it, down to measurements of it to even listing the materials.

I had all 5 star reviews up until recently where one buyer gave me 3 stars and said the item isn't a medium, despite the tag on the pants saying Medium, AND I gave waist, hip, thigh and inseam measurements. She actually had the item for three weeks before she gave me this poor rating. She also said my description was poor, but when I went on her page, NONE of her 180 listings showed ANY sort of specific details on her items.

Another buyer purchased my item without contacting me in ANY way, but gave me a 2 star review saying my communication could've been better. What? While the star reviews aren't public, it's just disturbing and annoying that people say the dumbest things with absolutely no way to counter or defend myself.

Some buyers are the worst and they are consistently spiteful. I end up having to block and decline people all day. On top of that, 20% fee commission to Poshmark is outrageous, along with $6 shipping. Neither the buyer or seller are benefiting from this!

If you don't like the price of the item, make an offer. If you're declined, then forget it. Don't buy it. If you don't like that the seller doesn't offer detailed descriptions, just don't buy it. Read all descriptions carefully and ask questions. No response from seller? Don't buy it. This advice could save so much trouble.

Once I'm done selling all my unwanted stuff, I would never use this platform again. I rather use eBay because at least people there READ descriptions before purchasing. And I have 100s of transactions on eBay with not a single neutral or negative feedback. I can't believe Poshmark allows a buyer to leave a bad rating over something that was their own fault.

If you don't mind your cards coming out with tiny dots (that look like pixels) on your text then Vista Print overall is ok. Otherwise, I'd pay more for a better print. I was doing a two-color business card on both sides and the text was horrible. As said above, it looked like there were tiny white dots in the text. The posters come out nice but they're on VERY thin paper. VistaPrint is just affordable. If you go with their standard products, don't expect it to be great quality work. I'm just a bit butt-hurt that I typed a review explaining the quality of their business cards, and they rejected the review even though there are tons of one star reviews with non-sense words or text, and yet those were approved. So what's the point of letting your customers submit a review for a verified purchase if you're going to ignore it?

I used this iPhone app and the desktop version. I needed a place to stay quickly, so I booked with 6 different hosts who all cancelled me or told me their place was not available on the day I chose, and yet AirBnb claimed it was for the day. The search is not accurate at all and it's frustrating.

All the hosts I spoke to also have a very long response time so if you need a reply within a few hours, you could forget it. I tried booking in Brooklyn (New York City) and had horrible experiences such as this. The first host I spoke to told me her apartment isn't available on the day I chose (yet the reservation still went through). She told me to cancel the reservation and so I did, and was basically taken a $7 cleaning fee that was not returned to me, despite not stepping a single foot in the apartment at all. I'm new to AirBnb and I felt scammed considering the website FAQs claims the cleaning fee is refundable.

The other hosts tells me their apartment is booked despite being available on the website. At this rate, I was going to simply pay $20 more to stay at a hotel, but I wanted a kitchen too. I would never use this service again. I was browsing for an entire day just to find a place to stay and still got nowhere.

The app is also really buggy and constantly asks for me to verify my ID. Apparently, a state ID is not enough and they ask for a social network page of you and I don't use any social networks. When the host denied me reservation, I felt like I basically gave out personal information for nothing. The app consistently makes me book the wrong dates or guests too.

Website is cumbersome and complicated. Horrible customer service. Expensive to call and the price even rose the last two years. The fee they take off is stupid and makes me lose so much call time money. Also, if you don't use your balance within a certain amount of time, they expire it. I didn't even know. I lost $60 worth of calls because of that. I'm so done with them. I told my friend to call me once every week. It used to cost only around $1.17 per 30 minute call in 2014, now it's $3.88 a call. What average person could afford this crap? It's disgusting.

I never shop at H&M online because I don't like the fact that you cannot exchange or return items in store and you have to pay return/exchange shipping even if the item wasn't your fault. I ordered several tanks, and it was a huge mistake. It did not fit the way I expected (a lot of room under the armpits). That was my own fault. I paid to return these by mail and they deducted $6 (by policy) which meant I lost more money since I also paid shipping to me.

Since they mailed me a 40% off coupon, I figured giving them another chance. I ordered a bathing suit following their sizing chart. I normally wear between 4-6 in every brand, so just to be sure, I got the bathing suit in size 6. When it came, the one piece bathing suit couldn't even pull up to my knees. It was incredibly tiny. Now I have to pay to exchange this(?) since you can't exchange it in store. Great! If you're not sure about an item, I would rather you find it in-store, although their website and stores NEVER have the same stuff which is really annoying.

That's the last time I'm ordering from H&M.

Dropbox was fine when I was using it with my free space, but when my Space Race extra 15GB expired, it was down to free space again. I don't mind paying for Dropbox because I love the app, the simplicity and how easy it works. I saw no reason to switch until I found out that Dropbox offers absolutely no plans in between 2GB Free and 1TB for $9.99 a month. If you're like me who uses anywhere between 50-100GB (which is the most my MacBook SSD could hold anyway), then you're out of luck.

Other competitors offer 100GB for $1.99, and 1TB for $6.99. Unfortunately, while I wish to remain loyal to Dropbox, they are not giving more cost-efficient plans and I could see very well why they should be losing money from subscribers. While I find their app to work the best, I was pushed to switched to another cloud service that gave me the plan I wanted.

I am not very happy with Dropbox's way of pushing dollars out of people considering the cheapest plan is $100 a year, which isn't cost efficient if you're only using about 5-10% of space annually. Again, I am not asking for free space. I just wish Dropbox would have more competitive prices and give a low-volume cost to individual users rather than jump the curve to 1TB immediately.

In addition to that, their desktop application updates in the background automatically which is a really high security risk for power users and users alike. While I expected that from Google, Dropbox doesn't have the capital to manage their security in every update they make. In fact, as most people stated, they should not even be trusted to manage your server. There is no way to disable automatic updates either. I stopped using Dropbox entirely because of this.

USPS has decent service for me. Delivery sometimes may be a little late, but I don't complain. However, my biggest complaint is the online tools they offer here do not go hand-in-hand with their actual labor/services. I sell on eBay and therefore require a lot of packaging materials. A few weeks ago, I ran out of Priority Mail "Regular" boxes and the shoe boxes. Seeing that I had some plain boxes left, I decided to use those while I order these online.

I ordered a set of 10 for each one. The Regular Priority Mail boxes arrived except it was a set of 25 boxes which was way too many and I didn't have the room for them. The other boxes were stuck in NJ and NEVER arrived even until this day. On top of that, I moved to a new location which has pick-up availability which would save me a lot of time and energy to carry boxes to the post office. When I entered information to get the pick-up, NO ONE came to pick up my packages. Yet, the USPS website sent me an e-mail stating the pick-up was successful. No, it was NOT successful!

As for customer service. The number given on the website does not work. I have called it numerous times because I needed help with lost packages and no one picked up. No one answers emails either. I cannot believe a service like this would do this to people.

Oh dear. Please do not trust all sellers on Etsy. If you aren't sure what you are getting, don't purchase it. Too many buyers complain about what they got from those "mystery" purchases with a random shirt or sweater and don't end up liking them. I'll admit it's great to find nice handmade stuff and it's great for artisans. I appreciate handmade work and help supporting Etsy shops.

However, I encountered so many bad sellers, I was quite disappointed and didn't want to buy from this place again. You would charged $11.95 to have them ship a pair of pants that aren't even heavy denim. $12?! Not only that, but I got ripped off so many times, it was crazy.

I asked a seller to ship me a pair of high waist jeans with 1" cuffs. She sends me a pair with 0.5" inch cuffs and the cut-off area keeps showing which was NOT what I wanted. I requested another seller to sell me a vintage sweater that was black. When I received it, it was a dark navy blue and it was very scratchy!

Afterwards, I purchased a ring that says it was handmade but it was actually a mass produced product from Asia and it was only obvious after I saw 4 sellers selling the exact same item. Then, I purchased a cardigan and a vintage bag from a seller. When I received the item, the cardigan was not "soft" and comfortable as she said. It was very stiff and uncomfortable. The bag she shipped me was in great condition the first time I gently used it. The strap broke off on its own after storing it nicely!

A lot of sellers are always like "contact me with questions". When I did contact one of the sellers, she took FOREVER to reply and I felt like she was playing the bargaining chip while giving me an attitude at the same time. It's either that, or they think as a buyer, you're being annoying.

As another reviewer said, always double check and research the item you want to purchase. The ring I originally purchased that was NOT handmade, was $20 and $4 shipping. After a few months, other shops sold the same exact ring and charged only $9 per ring.

Etsy in theory is great, but I never made a sale there. I listed a ton of items and wasted a ton of money and sold NOTHING. The only positive thing about selling is that their fees are actually reasonable ($0.20 a listing, and 3.5% fee for items sold). Compared to eBay, this is a heaven.

As said earlier though, be careful of sellers. At the same time, be a reasonable buyer. I respected a lot of no-return policies from those bad purchased. Sadly, almost all the items were either donated, given away, resold or thrown out. Advice from experience: Don't be tempted to buy trash or get charged retail price for clothing that are three decades old. I wouldn't even buy crafting supplies here. I don't know where some sellers in their right mind charge $6+ to ship 3 oz of wool roving. Absolutely ridiculous.