KICK - Live Streaming

“This app stands as a monument for a better future for content creators.” Being apart of the live streamer era for quite some time now and as the culture evolves as well as expands—its hard to make an honest living. Kick aims to be a platform that always keeps the creator at its heart. With better payouts, familiar design principles that captivate an audience, the proper tools necessary to grow your community, and now; A mobile app that stands as a monument for a better future for content creators a like. The UI on mobile is entirely user friendly. The ease to navigate between tabs at your fingertips as well as edit parameters on your channel allow for total control at the push of a button. With no harsh downtimes/bugs yet to be seen, consistency with blazing fast load times. Its hard to not love what kick offers. As its only the first day of the apps’ launch I am thoroughly impressed and cannot wait to see what other innovative features the team at Kick brings to its consumers!

I’ve been using Kick on iOS for about 6-8 months now and while I love the streams on the platform (Kino Casino and Chud Logic stan for life!)…there’s a fatal flaw in how it’s built on iOS that prevents me from really using it properly: the Automatic setting for Picture Quality. Due to current circumstances pertaining to slow…almost UNUSABLE on some days bc of dozens of people using it all day…Fiber Optic Internet, I’m forced to play streams on 160p to 240p and just listen at times. But whenever it needs to buffer again, IT KEEPS RESETTING IT BACK TO AUTOMATIC! I ran through my monthly data plan in 3 nights merely because it kept on Automatically setting the Picture Quality to 360p and up to 720p WITHOUT MY KNOWLEDGE and I’m so sick of it! I absolutely love Kick as a platform and I hope they eventually eclipse and make Twitch obsolete (like they deserve to be)…but until they can fix a “simple” issue like KEEPING A CONSISTENT SET PICTURE QUALITY FOR NAD CONNECTIONS TO BE ABLE TO KEEP CONSISTENTLY LISTENING WITHOUT THEIR PHONE BILLS CHARGING A RIDICULOUS AMOUNT OR NONSTOP STUTTERING/BUFFERING WHILE CHANGING IT BACK EVERY 15-90 SECONDS…they just may lose more viewers to YT Clip Channels and whatnot since it’s such a hassle and an utter annoyance to contend with little issues like this! Great picture quality and sound…bad consistency on the settings. Please FIX THIS ASAP KICK BECAUSE I WANT TO KEEP USING THE PLATFORM!

Repulsive application. Every time I want to relax and watch a live stream, I’m seemingly hit with 10x the number of problems that I faced last session. Just to name a few things that are horribly engineered: 1) sign-in protocol: app won’t relay my confirmation codes to my email. App won’t relay password reset links to my email. When I try to sign up under same email, app says it’s been taken 2) Full-screen/minimized view dynamics: app will bug out when I turn my phone sideways to have landscape view and only display media on half my screen as if it were in minimized view. Chat will also “bug out” upon switching from landscape to minimized and vice versa 3) Botted engagement: Users can seemingly purchase fake view bots and artificially inflate view count with some small time streamers having 1 million views and counting. Chat messages can be purchased in aggregate, with streamers having THOUSANDS of different accounts spamming the same message. 4) AI generated engagement: Chats have AI generated messages that mimic user sentiment/engagement to artificially inflate message count. For example: 10 real accounts will send “message A”, then 100 fake accounts will then send the exact same message even if the content of the chat has NOTHING to do with the media.