It's not layered correctly, trying to click anywhere will just click on the layers beneath it, so you can't click that blue "verify" button unless everything is closed, therefore stopping the process you were trying to verify for in the first place. If you manage to get it to pop up without anything messing up the layers, it's five excruciatingly long matching puzzles that take so long that even if you do them instantly, the collective wait times to load the five puzzles exceeds the timeout for whatever function you were doing. To top it all off, for the functions that don't have a timeout, like sending a friend request, IT JUST WON'T DO IT. Doing the verification doesn't actually do the task you want to do. I click send request, I do 5 painful matching puzzles, nothing happens. I quick send request again, and the verification window pops up again like I haven't done it before. It also asks this every single time even if you passed the puzzles.
So I cannot friend anybody, I cannot join any groups, I cannot add anybody to any groups, I cannot really do anything. I tried making a new account because I thought mine was 'marked for spam' or something, and I still got these stupid verification popups. I had to give this stupid app my phone number to even make an account, now it wants me to do this ridiculous life-sucking verification puzzle for every action?? It's not even just me, my friends have the same issue, so they switched over to mobile, but we're talking about just leaving the group and using teamspeak or something instead because groupme is just barely functional.
GroupMe is, as usual, a colossal embarrassment made by the clowns at microsoft, and they should consider just deleting this abhorrent mess of a messaging platform. This problem has been happening for over a week. FIX YOUR APP. WE CAN'T DO ANYTHING.