{"id":4491,"date":"2016-05-03T20:12:59","date_gmt":"2016-05-04T00:12:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2016\/05\/06\/checking-in-with-yik-yak\/"},"modified":"2022-11-06T21:05:13","modified_gmt":"2022-11-07T02:05:13","slug":"checking-in-with-yik-yak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/checking-in-with-yik-yak\/","title":{"rendered":"Checking in with Yik Yak"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over the last year, Yik Yak has been adding more tools to make the app \u201ca more positive place, a more entertaining place for our users, because that\u2019s why they keep coming back,\u201d says Brooks Buffington &#8217;13, the 24-year-old co-founder of the company and a 2013 Furman graduate.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/tech\/news\/2016\/04\/29\/yikyak-looks-revive-app-popularity-chat\/83639596\/\"><strong><em>USA Today<\/em><\/strong><\/a> wrote about Yik Yak\u2019s latest developments when Buffington was in Charleston to address the DigSouth tech conference.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the last year, Yik Yak has been adding more tools to make the app \u201ca more positive place, a more entertaining place for our users, because that\u2019s why they [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":4487,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-the-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/265"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4491\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}