theCHIVE

I have become fond of the Chive and what the app is all about. Unfortunately, I have bought some stuff from their shop. I am never doing this again. I bought 3 tee shirts, same size. When they arrived the sizing was crazy. One of the shirts was so small, it could not have been made for an adult. The quality is cheap. Sure, they are soft but they are also paper thin.
The final straw was when I bought one of their limited edition collector coins. They were supposed to be a limited edition of 1041 coins. I bought 2. Neither one had any edition number on the coins. Using this logic, they can make a million coins and continue to sell them as a limited edition. This practice simply stinks of bait and switch. I truly question their business ethics. I would think a organization of this size would have someone at least proofing this coin before sending and disappointing 1041 customers.

The Chive moderators are among the most inept people in the world. I actually hope that they are using AI as moderators because I hate to think that a human is that dumb. And if this is the case then they need to get their money back from whoever developed the AI. As an example I have attached a picture that was removed and flagged as "nudity". According to their own rules on submissions there is nothing wrong with the picture and no reason for it to be removed or flagged.

Ordered in February - supposedly shipped 2x, for the last 3 months, i've been going back and forth trying to get a refund. Cut/Paste pros! I get one of 4 responses with every response of mine. What an inept, scam of a company!

I have gone to the site occasionally because some of it is funny. Unfortunately, by going to the site you are automatically "signed up" for their daily e-mail newsletter. Now I am getting daily e-mails full of trash and soft porn that I can't get to stop. I have "unsubscribed" at least a dozen times with no resolution, I have e-mailed the "help desk" and asked to be removed. The only suggestion I got from that was that I should "set-up an account on the website, log-in with your e-mail, and then go to manage e-mail preferences". They did inform me that if I do that, they can sell my information. Such crap! I just want the e-mails to stop.

See a cool article? Click on it and thechive will take you to the app store to download something totally unrelated! Already have the uber app? Well that does not matter because thechive will redirect you to the app store to download it again and again! How awesome is that?! These guys make money by having tracking software embedded into their site to redirect you. If you think thechive is awesome then wait until you try their next product, herpes.

I paid for the merchandise and shipping on Feb 19th and never received my package. They respond to me but do nothing, I disputed this with my credit card company and they reached out and told me not to; Of course I did not listen. Stay away from this company because their products clothes look good but you will not receive them.

Nothing original here except for their ads and tit pics. Low-res gifs and videos copied from other sites, reduced in size/resolution. LOVED it way back when there was soul to the site, but this is a complete sell-out, money grubbing place for Chads to hang out and think they're still relevant, edgy, and cool. I still go by monthly and open 15-20 posts. I even look all the way through 5-6 of them. Their editors struggle with grammar, spelling, and finding enough material to steal. I guess they try, for eighth graders to sophomores.

Don't order from this company,I ordered a lot of clothes back in February which didn't arrive,I have been trying unsuccessfuly to get a refund but all I receive is an automated reply over and over,absolutely disgusting.

This site $#*!ing sucks, these $#*!ing corporate sellout $#*!s have ruined this site which is now full of adds which contribute to it CONSTANTLY crashing. It's pathetic what this has degraded to cause it used to be pretty cool. You can $#*! off, chive

Site constantly crashes, the app is even more broken, used to be great. Don't know why owners have let it get so bad, obviously they don't care about their users

Was almost ran off the road with our two kids in the car by a driver in the KCCO company truck. License plate KVG 4989 from Rockdale County in GA. He was up on our tail and could have hit up. I shined the light on the Baby on Board sign and he sped up and shined a light in my husband's face while he was driving. The guy was driving erratic and nearly ran into another car ahead of us. The people had to swerve out of the way. This happened tonight around 8tish on Feb 14,2016., Get this punk $#*! off the road before he hurt someone, or someone hurts him.

I have a different opinion than everyone else apparently about this site. I like maybe 10% of it but the rest is smut! There are to many sites with smut crap on them and here we are with another site with more smut on it. How ingnorant that someone can't create a site without smut and whores on it. Leave that crap to porn sites not a site that is easily accessible to children to see people who have no respect for themselves just put it out for all to see. We have enough of this crap that gets shown on television and with the stupid celebrities that I don' t feel we need another site that has this $#*! on it. Come on people are you that hard up that we need to put this crap on every site out there. And people wonder why kids have sex at such an early age or dress like whores for attention. Look at the crap they see and view. Women have more respect for yourself, show you have some morals. Leave that crap for the bedroom and your man or girlfriend not for the kids coming up in this world who feel oh hey if I want attention I should do this because she is. Shame on you all for being selfish and not thinking about what your kids will say one day should they God forbid come across your whore moments.

Look, I don't have a problem turning off my adblocker for sites - as long as the ads don't make my computer run slower. But the reason I use an adblocker is because it makes sites cleaner and faster. I'm a clean freak at heart. I don't wanna see a big diarrhea fest of ads when I just wanna read an article. But some ads can be harmless and the site still runs fine on its own. Then there's the Chive. Yeah the ads make the site almost completely unusable. It runs smoothly until I turn off my adblocker as it requests.

Leave adblocker alone. We don't care if you make money from ads. You can find some more CPU-friendly ads that don't hog up my CPU and make the page unreadable. If you can't do that, find another way to invest in your site. It's the 2018 not 1995. Get creative. But forcing us to turn off our adblockers? Not good. That's how you REALLY lose visitors.
More and more people are using adblockers and are passionate about such. I'm not advocate for the global population but I'm pretty sure most people who unpack a new computer aren't opening their browser and racing over to log onto thechive.com to see what's new there. But I'm sure a lot of people will go right on over to install adblocker. That's the first thing I do in my web browser when I get a new computer.

To the people at TheChive.com - you can make us dismantle our adblockers. But we will find another site to go to. Ad-block will be a thing whether you go out of business or not, and whether you wage war on it or not.

I suggest letting the user visit it for 30 seconds to see if it's worth whitelisting it or not. After 30 seconds of being on the site, ask us to whitelist it. But don't force it. This turns off more visitors than you think.

Just my 2 cents.