Rumble: Livestreams & Videos

Wow. I came back to this app two years later. I thought that would have been enough time for management to get their act together and to build a usable app. Boy was a wrong. Completely wrong. This app continues to be a train wreck and user experience disaster. First let me start with the ads. Sheesh. Let me say that the desperation from this company is palpable. I’m in the app for 5 mins and have yet to see a video because of the constant ads and pop-ups. Management is so focused on me me me rather than the user. What an incredibly selfish approach to running a company. They need to find the right balance between ads and an amazing user experience. They’ve tilted too far to favor themselves. Second, the UI needs a lot of work. The UX also needs a lot of work. It’s just so glitchy and they do not follow best practices. I sense they outsourced the development of the app to low-cost engineers and designers. What a train wreck. I couldn’t imagine coming back to an app two years later to find that it’s actually worse! How is that possible. The management of this company doesn’t produce content. They store the content, deliver it, and provide an interface to access that content. What exactly are they doing over there? I’m out. I’ll come back in another couple of years.

Thank God Rumble app is fixed! A previous update about 3 weeks ago broke the app on iPad. Both mine and a friend’s Rumble app on iPad got stuck on the page that asks about frequency of notifications. I sent screen shots to developers and thankfully they have fixed it. Now there’s a way to access podcasts from that page. Thanks to all who worked on this. Once again Rumble is the very best App to access the best podcasts out there. I have one request or suggestion: could you please give us a “Hold” or “Lock” button? It’s so annoying when I’m walking the dog and listening to a podcast and my hand happens to accidentally touch the screen and I’m taken to another podcast. I have to stop and find what I was listening to and find my place again. Just put in a button to touch that holds you from loosing your connection to a podcast. Then we touch that one spot again when we choose to release that podcast and move to something else on purpose. Thank you.

I came to Rumble as soon as Dan Bongino mentioned it on his podcast, leaving Screw Tube...but I have a hard time watching it! I am a teacher & mother, trying to fit in vids wherever I can during my daily activities & work. But every time I turn off a reminder or answer a text, or just MOVE my phone, the picture goes away. I love Dan’s expressions & Visual ‘effects’, that’s why I watched him on Screw Tube rather than listening on Apple Podcasts...but trying to listen & live my life makes it difficult! The video doesn’t freeze but be the picture goes away & I can listen, but that’s it. I try to note where the show is, close the app, then go back & fast forward to that spot—though sometimes doing so zaps the picture again & I have to start over...it’s a pain! I really hope this will get fixed SOON...or I’ll have to go back to Screw Tube or listen on apple, which I dislike doing, again, because I like the visual! I believe in supporting those who support us, so I don’t want to go elsewhere, but when a 1 to 1 hr, 5 minutes video takes 1 hr 30+, I have to make some changes, even if it’s just for my sanity! I’ll hang on a while longer...but I won’t wait forever.