Grindr - Gay Dating & Chat

This isn't even an app at this point. it's just an ad viewing center. cut off by ads all the time, and half the time they don't even load through. the ones that don't, you can't skip. close the app and try to do anything and you immediately get hit with an ad. not to mention your grid is based off of percentage of profiles in the area without a paid subscription. This is no longer a service, I would hardly even call it a platform with the direction it's going. sponsor deals and ads, sellouts

I don't understand how this app is alive, let alone so heavily used and recommended still. you literally can't do anything unless you pay. and it bugs you every 5 minutes to pay. then when you finally pay, their settings are so restrictive ,that you can't actually do anything with people unless your literal only focus is to drive through random towns hooking up. it will not let you set a radius on your connections or searches and there are so many blatant fake profiles.

The repetitive ads are WAYYYY too much. An ad popping up in the middle of typing a message is deplorable. If I close the ad, I have to retype everything? Shameful, but I close anyways. $20 a month for premium is too much in my opinion. If there are not enough people paying, then something is either wrong with your app or the paid benefits aren't good enough. The only reason it's a two star is I like the unlimited blocks. If that's ever taken away, I'm just going to delete the app altogether.

Still, every time the app gets an update, it screws something up in the app. Now their ads pop up all the time! Even while I'm in the middle of typing a message, which makes me lose my message. They also say "contact support and we'll help you", but then they almost never respond to your messages...and when they finally do (after I send a follow-up message asking them to actually respond), it's often just a form response that doesn't actually respond to the problem that I'm having. So annoying!

Ads are getting out of control. It plays ads when you open the app, reply to messages, and sometimes in the middle of typing messages. Plus, they are locking more and more free features behind the paywall. For an app that needs to be force closed and reopened just for the location finding function to reset, the corporate team should focus on making an app that works before worrying about why people won't pay $20 a month for an app that doesn't work, doesn't combat spam, bots, and scammers.