I liked Yik Yak. I downloaded it to offer specials to the local college kids. I'd say that there was a ratio of about 10 positive and 90 banal comments to each negative. I suppose that the students at the rich, sheltered and Catholic school near my house might have been much kinder than the kids at other universities.
When I was in Boulder, in early 2015, that's when the Yak scene was exploding. 8bit was right, that city has some serious racism issues. Rich, white pricks in general, really. Surprisingly high amount of ignorance, in the CU Boulder college kids.
Ya know, it is your use case that makes me wish Twitter had a "Local Only" option I could turn on and off. I'd love to be able to get/see local information in tweet-sized tidbits. Like your promotions. Or hairy traffic, or weather events. Seems like Yik Yak might have offered that kind of hyper-local, hyper-focused content. But... that's a FEATURE. Not a $400m app. Silly Valley. Trix are for kids.
personally, I think that twitter should allow unlimited characters in posts (to whiten technical limits) and only show the first 140 and then you have to click "expand" it would help with the triviality, and tweetstorms could become actual proper blog posts
I liked it too. I live very near to UNC campus and there were a few times that I heard their alarm going off, campus wide. I would jump on Yik-Yak and find out immediately what was going on. "Gun on campus" or "Knife on Campus, lock doors, stay inside." "Suspect found. Safe to go outside again." -Good to know stuff.