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⌈ Secret Post #7037 ⌋

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Finch is a cute little mobile app designed to help you practice self-care and complete tasks. You have a little bird who you care for by completing self-assigned tasks and goals. Once you complete enough daily goals, your bird goes on an adventure and makes discoveries. You can dress up your bird and decorate their room.

It is the cutest, most harmless app ever.

And the Reddit community is full of the whiniest, most toxic, insufferable people I have ever seen on the internet.

This has to be the most chill app, and yet people find reasons to complain and be dramatic about EVERYTHING.

They don't like the monthly theme. They don't like that their bird likes something they hate/hates something they like. They don't like that the clothes make their bird look fat. They don't like one of the prompts the app gave them to journal on. They think the bird's reaction to a scenario is promoting harmful ideas to children.

The problem is that people never say, "I don't really like this because it isn't suited to my tastes." They say, "This is bad because it is wrong and it should be changed/removed."

It is absolutely ridiculous. People have made separate subreddits because the main one is so fucking toxic. And honestly, I am still shocked that people find a way to be so toxic about such a lighthearted, fun, harmless app.

[(Anonymous)]

This doesn’t surprise me even a little.

I will say that the app didn’t really work right. It would have me change things out all the time but not make them permanent and not actually change anything except add one more thing. Combined with the excessive notifications, it had a very bad effect on me. I was really struggling and instead of making me feel like I was accomplishing the small tasks, it made me feel like I wasn’t doing enough. I deleted and went back to writing things down daily and it was like a huge weight was lifted.

[(Anonymous)]

I think, "this app is stressing me out, so I'm gonna delete it" is a much healthier response than, "I don't like this app, so the devs need to change everything about it until it caters specifically to me."

[(Anonymous)]

Definitely! But I don’t think I made it clear that part of the issue was the app not working properly. It would tell me I was swapping something. I’d make the swap and then it turned out it was an addition, instead. Then the next day that addition was gone. But sometimes other things would change without any input from me. It was a bit buggy and there were tons of reports about it for a couple months but the devs never addressed it. Which kinda proves your point more: users are more likely to complain about their every whim not being met than to submit a ticket when something is legitimately wrong.

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Oh for sure, bugs and basic functionality are totally different stories, and it's not great if the devs ignore them.

[(Anonymous)]

That's sad, but not surprising.

[(Anonymous)]

There's a type of modern consumer who's entitled to a ridiculous degree, and thinks that every product, app, piece of entertainment, etc needs to be perfectly tailored to them. If anything about it doesn't match up to their particular tastes, then they throw a fit. And yeah, they'll turn just about any space into a toxic nightmare.

It's...irritating.

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"The problem is that people never say, "I don't really like this because it isn't suited to my tastes." They say, "This is bad because it is wrong and it should be changed/removed.""

I feel like this sums up a lot of problems with feedback online. And, well, offline too for that matter. People expect their exact preferences and desires to be catered to, and if they aren't, then they think it's a problem that should be fixed/changed.

[(Anonymous)]

I've been giving the app a go for the last two months and tbh while I do have some quibbles with it, overall it's cute and fun.

Of course, cute and fun things always seem to get the most vicious fandoms, so it doesn't surprise me to hear about this.

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Yeah, what is that about? Genuine people trying to do genuinely good things tend to get shredded. Then you go on the most brutal video game and the comments are super nice.

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Man, I'm glad I don't hang out at Reddit much, haha. I love my little birb. I joined Finch after losing a close online friend last year, and it was one of the things that helped me through that time. It's such a nice little place to go to and find little ways to feel better about things when I need it, help me try to find motivation to do things on rough days. Too bad some people have to ruin everything.

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I LOVED Finch. I had my birb for like two years till I deleted my (not saved to the cloud) birb and lost everything so I lost any interest in getting back to the app. But the Discord was INSUFFERABLE, too.

And when my bird liked things I didn't and vice versa, I was like, "Well, my kid would probably have different likes and dislikes than me, so... fair enough to my little virtual pet."

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My guess is that because the app is for self-care, that people who need self-care use it. Some of which will vent so hard specifically because they're in a bad place an feel so much negativity.
Otherwise, I feel games like this show haters more because there is no other purpose to the game. There is no story, no realistic graphics, nothing to do but click, more or less? And of course, critique should always be welcome, but some people just don't know the difference, unfortunately.