KICK: Live Streaming

On iPhone, it was good, not great. It would frequently lose my spot on a video and start over, but I could at least listen to it in the background. On Android, it will not play in the background. I have to be actively in the app or the video will stop playing and I have to "go back" to the channel's main page then get the video playing again. Annoying as all get out.

Everytime I close the app and open it back up, it makes me re-sign in, which means I have to get a code from my email. Doesn't matter if it's 2 minutes or a day. Chat constantly freezes. Streams freeze often. The picture quality is nice. There is no place in the app I see to report technical bugs, which is dumb. On top of that, it eats battery like crazy. Makes the phone hot, worse than if I were playing a graphics intensive game. Switching from portrait to landscape is a total mess

Doesn't work. 3 devices, 2 of which are brand new, same issue. Fresh install. Physically incapable of clicking log in and sign up, nothing happens when clicked. If you click it as many times as you can as fast as you can, it might pop up- and fail to log you in when typed out. Close out the login menu. It pops up again. Why? Because you had to click it as many times as you can to get it to pop up, so good luck closing out the 5000 login pop-ups one after another. Just close the whole app.

The app had problems before. I was hopeful the latest update would fix it, but it's gotten worse. The video auto-switches between portrait and landscape if I turn my phone, even when I have autorotate turned off. My place in a VOD is no longer saved, so every time I go back to a long video, I have to find where I left off. Also, a few times, it's made me sign in again even though I never signed out.

It was working great, but they broke it with a recent update. The picture-in-picture feature is gone, it takes forever to load, and the back button doesn't work. When I go to Followed streams, it only shows the ones that are currently live. The ones not currently streaming don't show up anywhere. I can't imagine why they would release their program with so many things broken that had been working fine.