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by Traubenfuchs 2087 days ago
I have very little trust in the capabilities and interest of the Grindr team to do anything but making money with overpriced subscriptions. It's riddled with bugs, years old, yet they keep adding new, unnecessary features like video chat to justify their insanely priced "unlimited" subscription.

This year there have been a few months where your own profile data would not load, making you think you'd lost your profile data and having to create it all again. Yet all you needed to do was to restart the app ~10 times to get it to load.

Sometimes messages just... get lost in the ether.

The "online now" notification is flaky.

Grindr Online (web browser) is a whole new mess. I haven't used it in a long while, but the first months it felt as "professional" as an interns side project. Also you need to keep Grindr open on the phone while using it, kind of beating the purpose.

The setting to use the metric system still resets to imperial regularly.

The app is full of fakers, yet they still have no identity validation feature.