Vent & Care: ShareSpace

This app, this community is very therapeutic

This community provides me with a level of comfort thats just very difficult to find in person. Through this online support, I’ve noticed my esteem and overall mental state improve a lot and it feels so good to be helped by people that genuinely want to help. I recommend this app to anyone looking to improve their mental state or even just maintain a good mental state anyway!

I wanted to like this app, but unfortunately it is far from what I can in good conscience even consider recommending. On top of all the bugs and glitches there is no private feed and you have to post publicly. While they intend to add a private feed they suggested for now to use the block feature. However when they launched they didn’t actually have their block feature working properly and did not make it a priority - overall questionable development choice. A mental health app launching without any sort of private setting in general just seems like a bad call overall. At first it seems very professional as far as the developers go but the more you get involved the more you find that it feels like it’s being run by children. There is no consistency or professionalism. The community moderators are also just regular users and they’re rolling out an update where you cannot block them once they’re assigned. This has to be one of the most toxic platforms I have come across and horrifyingly it’s a mental health platform. Users attacking users, moderators attacking users, moderators posting triggering content, moderators with personal biases and conflict, no feeling of professionalism what so ever, no consistency to what they do and do not allow, no notice account deletions, no way to formally mark triggering content, no way to filter content, and so on. And this is supposed to be a mental health app? I don’t think being new is an excuse to launch this archaic when mental health is supposed to be the focus. I wasn’t even involved in anything and it drained me just watching the absolute nightmare that was constantly occurring on the feed. I would absolutely not recommend this to anyone struggling mentally because if anything, it’s going to make you worse. The developers and moderators show no promising future for the app and it’s not worth the emotional energy trying to see it through.

I’m quite enjoying this app so far. I have to say, I NEVER rate an app 5 stars, no matter how much I love it, but as the staff here all seem really nice and on top of things, and the fact that this is a mental health app, I feel like it deserves the 5. There are, obviously, many things it could most DEFINITELY improve on. Such as: 1. Make a feature where your unread notifications are highlighted, so you don’t get confused with the ones you’ve already seen. 2. Add an option in settings to chose which notifications you’d like to receive. Currently, I’m receiving EVERYTHING, but for example, I don’t really care about anything except the comments I get on my posts or the replies to my comments on others. I’m also receiving notifications for likes, people I follow posting something, new groups, etc. I don’t care about all that. Overall, however, I like this app.

love the idea of this app, however there’s a lot of bugs. i feel like there should definitely be a dark mode setting and it’s just so slow atm. also replies disappear after you try to send them for some reason.

Hey this platform is super great and has hella potential. Sadly when I go to my notification tab the app really bugs out and stops working or never stops trying to load. I restarted the app multiple times but the same result! I’d love to review more one I experience the app more!

Helped me to get back on my feet so much

Very helpful app