No one who’s actually used Grindr likes that app. It sucks, and not in a good way. It fills its niche, but it is a horrible app and gets worse and worse with every update.
Every update decreases the amount of people you can see. Frequent, full page ads that cannot be closed out and will open up a webpage/the App Store as you try to hit the “x.” You’ll “accidentally” hit the $99.99 monthly purchase somehow because everything moves around after your conversations load and have to exit out of the confirmation for that. There are a ridiculous amount of Only Fans and bots. Often the app would rather connect you to people hundreds of miles away rather than the people in your immediate area.
No one who’s actually used Grindr likes that app. It sucks, and not in a good way. It fills its niche, but it is a horrible app and gets worse and worse with every update.
Rant over.
Oh so it’s like all other dating apps.
I read recently they’re all tuned to give you almost perfect matches with people you’ll vibe with for a few dates then end up back on the app
I read the same. We need a FOSS dating app without these stupid semi-matching algorithms.
The fediverse chick never messaged you?
She did, but I had my concerns. I’m down with poly relationships, but I don’t think I could date someone who is seeing that many other people.
https://alovoa.com/ has an app on f-droid, they probably need the users, hehe!
Percent of Alovoa PC users on Linux: 93%
There is no matching algorithm in Grindr though, it’s just ‘people near you’.
And this has always been the obvious logical conclusion for a for profit dating app
And also similarly applies to other for profit software. It’s the whole idea behind enshittification
Which is why FOSS is king and should be supported as much as possible in as many areas as possible
Isn’t that just… every app?
Haven’t used it myself but my mate seems to thoroughly enjoy it.
Why does it suck?
Every update decreases the amount of people you can see. Frequent, full page ads that cannot be closed out and will open up a webpage/the App Store as you try to hit the “x.” You’ll “accidentally” hit the $99.99 monthly purchase somehow because everything moves around after your conversations load and have to exit out of the confirmation for that. There are a ridiculous amount of Only Fans and bots. Often the app would rather connect you to people hundreds of miles away rather than the people in your immediate area.
FYI you can use a DNS ad blocker to get rid of all the ads in Grindr (and all other apps).
But it is a scummy app.
I thought it was just Pokémon go, but for dickbutt?
Ah I see, I hope some good alternatives pop up to compete.
With little competition dating apps just screw people over for max profit