Hornet Gay Social Network App Reviews

I use to enjoy hornet now it’s just a pain! The profiles are all jumbled up so the first profile a I see are over 100 miles away and now I scroll through and the distance is all messed up so it goes from 70-100-27-21-111-130. You can’t tell without clicking into someone’s profile where they are. Please fix this!!!!! And it would make this much better

As of late, I get about 10-15 commercial ad message or spam from fake profile. It just keep coming. Most of this comes from profile that are thousand of miles away. Hornet is not doing a good job preventing this.

Don’t bother...every message I get is one bot after another. Why would I even want to talk to someone 1,009 miles away? Makes you wonder if Hornet is just a suppository of ads.

So now you have a news feed with political and otherwise garbage. You trying to be FB??! No ism seriously done. It wasn’t enough with the constant ads and even more bots. Now there’s a feed. Well I’m fed up. Byeeeee!

3 years ago this was a great app because a lot of guys were on it and it was bug free. Now no one uses it and it hardly works

Love the photo stream and content sections. Plenty of nice people to talk to for a change from other apps. Dig the hashtags.

So many fake accounts

Y’all need to fix this app. This app keep sending messages while I’m off and I keep getting reported for it. It keeps sending websites to people. Y’all need to fix it now

So tired of this app with nothing but BOTS I’m deleting the app because of the nonstop BOTS I keep reporting them and I keep blocking them and then the next day I have a double it’s like you do not care about your app at all

I bought this iPhone from a friend and this app was blocked for his account, I 've sent several messages tô te developers and they ask for information of my friends account that I don't have It. It was his account that blocked this phone and I bought this phone without knowing that this app was blocked for his. I do not have anything to do with what my friend did. I Just bought an iPhone that was blocked because of him.

Each day I receive a notification that xxxx checked my profile. Please disable this insanely annoying notification. I only want to receive notifications from a direct message.

After 5+ years of using the app I decided to delete my account and the app. There is nothing but spam on the actual app. Most of my notifications in a day were just spam bots reaching out and the developers do nothing to stop this, despite what they say in review feedback. This has been a problem for years and there has never been a noticeable difference. Aside from that, the amount of advertisements from hornet and other businesses is out of control. Advertising is expected, but it shouldn’t be in my inbox. The amount of advertising is too much and is the main reason for me deleting this horrible app. They’re all about money opposed to listening to the people who use their app.

The new update ruined the whole app. I don’t want to see strangers posts everwhere!

Good luck if your wanting to meet someone! All ads, and spam and 99 percent of messages bots! Worst app and they don't seem to care!

How can I cancel my app account here because I am not using this website any longer due to it caused me trouble this past year. So can you please let me know how to stop this account from now on.

I guess there was no need for yet another social media app but I tried anyway. For the past two months It’s all ads and bots. Such a royal waste of time! And notifying the app makers/managers doesn’t matter - I believe the makers are well aware and get plenty of money to run the ads and fake accounts.

They seem to have fixed the spambot problem that others have cited...at least for now, but your inbox will probably have more advertisements and creepers than hot men. AND Hornet will reject your profile picture without explaining why, while your picture is good enough to pass muster on Grindr and Scruff. Seriously, use Grindr and Scruff. I haven’t met one guy worth my time on this craptastic app, it even makes Jack’d look good.

Hornet used to be the best app but not anymore. Everywhere a BOT! Several Advertisment messages! Specially POP up Ads going Relentless and lately increased frequenty of showing the Adds. Not accurate locations. Also Hornet used to be free of views of profiles. But in new update by adding limitation of views, you have to pay for geting an primum account...

I’ve downloaded and deleted the app and tried again. Every time I try to upload a photo in the screen in the app, it just goes black. I’m using the most recent iOS update.

This app has become a pain go even use and getting worse by the day. The pop-up ads are RELENTLESS - and lately increasing in length and frequency. I often get pop up ads I can’t get rid of for at least 10 seconds after EVERY FEW CLICKS on the app. And NOW, there is NO way to exit an ad without CLOSING the app! ALSO, chat no longer allows you to paste from Google Translator- a necessity if you want to chat with someone who speaks another language. It’s as if they’re TRYING to destroy the usability of this app, which was never great to begin with. This is getting ridiculous.

For me the last thing I want to do is pay for a gay dating app! This app is great because it’s free for the basic version. If you want more options then you’ll simply have to subscribe. I think it’s a great way to have more people using this app, Thanks hornet team!

The mileage indicator on this app is the worse. It shows people close to where I live. Then when I chat with people I find out they’re in another state or another coast. Very annoying.

Could be so much better. Needs a few changes to really compete with other apps: -ability to delete recently sent pics (you should be able to curate these so one off photos can be eliminated) -the ability to paste in text is crucial if you’re translating and yet has not worked since the last few updates. WHY?! Bring it back. -built in translator would be stellar and nobody is doing it (could be huge selling point) -blocking mechanism is slow (figure out how to make it faster) -search doesn’t refresh automatically as it should -there seem to be way too many clicks to do something and then even to go back - someone should try to improve user experience by decreasing clicks needed for any action -I’ve got tons of ideas. Feel free to reach out if you’d like help. Applied for beta testing but haven’t heard anything.

Sometimes I send a wrong message and I don't have any ability to delete it please make some editing ability

I’m probably going to delete my account soon because the past week alone I have gotten 6-10 spam messages a day, and after I report them I get another message (per report) from “Hornet Moderation” thanking me for reporting them. Like Jesus. I don’t want this many fake messages. And deleting them all each day takes up too much time - this app is terrible now. What’s the point of keeping it?? 😔👎👎👎👎

This app is plain awful. You look at the app, thinking you have 6 new messages, and then open it up only to find it’s six different advertisements in your inbox, from various Hornet partners, but including Hornet as well. If you like being inundated with SPAM, then this app is definitely for you. Hornet says they’re working on this “problem,” but it only gets worse, it seems. Garbage app! Find something better.

What a stupid limitation? Why in description I can type only 128 characters? Yearly subscription paid 🤦🏻‍♂️

Three to five spam messages a day.

Will be deleting. Basically 100% spam and adbots at present. Something needs to change, because whatever they’re doing about it right now (if anything) isn’t helping.

There are way too many scammers adds and fake profiles on here to even be worth the time and effort.

Lately the only messages I’ve been getting are from people somewhere past 7,000 miles away that want me to “find them” on another site. Or they are in the military in Africa but will be home soon. Or offering to put a decal on my car for $400 a week with a fake cashiers check. Or wanting to exchange sex for money. Anyone I’ve messaged does not respond, and the ones that have need money or a place to stay. This used to be a decent app. Now not so much. I’m about to delete this app because of the spam. Just like 99% is spam. And it seems to be more that I report it. Oh that’s it the developer is being paid to allow the spamming and the reported profiles are tagged with who reported it and they get the most spam. I get it now! Shady shady af

I used to have this app, just recently deleted it. I was getting 3-4 spam texts a day, they would be reported, but it continued. It’s as if hornet was sending them to get you to buy the premium.

I came onto Hornet to search for a place where I can meet gay guys like me. I’m not one to filter, but I think it would have been nice to have a platform where gay men could just connect and converse. It might be because I didn’t stay too long but first impressions are very important. A lot of guys that contacted me were just looking for hookups, maybe you can add a filter that differentiates people looking for pleasure and people looking for community. For first timers in a social media platform based on sexuality, I expected to get hookup requests and all of that, but I was hoping I could feel welcome. Again I met someone, so not all was lost. He lives across the world from me but it’s cool to have a connection out of America and I don’t mind a long distance friendship. It’s a fact that there is a mix of guys who want to find friends and people to learn from and relate to and guys who just want a good night. It’d be helpful to separate these two collective intentions to give users a better experience. Maybe there was a filter, maybe not, it could’ve came with premium even I won’t say I know for sure if you guys have a solution that some users might not acknowledge in the first place. Overall if you are gonna have a social platform be ready for anything, updates and feedback is important. Instead of being similar to other sites that focus on dating, try to really go for a difference and expand on quality of variety a little more than what I’ve already seen. Help users navigate directly to a community of their interests instead of having a platform where a variety of guys can get mixed easily. Again you could be working on this; I love the concept and potential this app has so keep up the good work, because in the end even though I don’t use this app anymore, I found someone I genuinely connected with. I also really love the news and articles and giving a writing platform for the guys, that’s pretty dooe!

Seriously ranks among the worst gay “social” apps ... only download this if you want your in-box to be constantly hit with messages from bots advertising other websites and apps ... oh, and the paid advertising messages too. Tragic and horrible and a waste of time - the developers clearly have no filters in place to detect fake / spam accounts and asking users to police accounts for them is a joke ... after flagging 25 profiles and deleting / blocking spam messages, now I’m barraged with messages from the “moderator” thanking me for reporting and that they’ve identified the problem and fixing it. Too late! This morning’s latest onslaught of spam messages - deleting my profile and uninstalling! Wish I could give less than 1 star - DON’T WASTE YOUR TIME WITH HORNET ... guess I’ll stick with the original, old school Grind’r

Ads are playing sound without warning, even with my device set to silent. Deleting my account and permanently uninstalling.

24 ads from fake profiles in one day, all saying the same thing. I have reported 10, and then got sick of it. These people clearly could not care less that their app is infested with fake accounts diverting users to unpaid advertising. Total crap customer service.

Horrible moderation team. They twice blocked my picture saying that it's not meeting the guidance. This was a pictures of me in swimming trunks. I have this picture on Instagram, Facebook, and the most bizzar part I had it on hornet in the past just deleted it. Twice the same thing. Get yourself new moderators and fire the current ones

It’s supposed to show you guys nearby based on distance. First guy in the list is 120 miles away, second guy is only 86, third guy is over 200 miles away, fourth guys is less than a mile. Utterly ridiculous!

Latest ad is for penile enlargement - a surgery proven to be mostly ineffective and in fact dangerous. A surgery that preys on the insecurities of gay men for the purpose of making a buck. Hornet: you’ve sold us out. You have no sense of community or responsibility, do you? I dare you to respond to this review and show some character - or your true colors.

This is the WORST way to get connected to the LGBT+ community. This app is just a constant spamming of fake accounts and paid advertisements. When I wasn’t being spammed by bots, I was being harassed by child rapists and sexual assault felons. Even after blocking them they would just make new profiles to continue to message me. Finally just decided to delete my profile and remove this app.

Расстояния показывает не правильно, первым человек в 3 км от тебя, а потом 600 метров, а найти человека который ближе всего к тебе возможно где-то в середине списка.

Way too many fake profiles, way too many scammers, it’s just not worth it

Please help me to open the app

Just deleted the app nothing but ad emails and bot spam o well

Too many fake profiles.

This app needs to be reformed and updated. It’s been so hard to sign up and to login to that I quit using this app altogether. I would love to see this app to be more intuitive to use, and not ask me about my outside social media, because I don’t know what you’re doing with my information. Also Hornet app should no longer requires you to have a Facebook account in order to enable it, So many people have left Facebook. As among many others issues I and the majority of my friends have with this app.