In my opinion there isn’t enough been done to verify people’s age, I don’t want to communicate with minors but often profiles say there 18 but in fact there 15 or 16 etc. I know in an ideal world only 18+ are allowed on Grindr but there setting up these fake profiles to entrap people into conversations with minors with an 18 age on profile and then label you a pedophile when you communicate with them. This needs to be looked at for the safety of all Grindr users, there should be no minors on this app or if they are get them to display their real age so we can avoid communication with them. I want to communicate with real people with real age displayed and not fake /minors.

Hello,
I think you are missing out on a big community of people. The chub and chaser community. I know their are other apps out there but if you could just add chub and chaser to the tribes section you may get a lot more people interested in the app that are from the chub/chaser community. On occasion (as a chubby guy) I get lucky and find a guy who is into chubby guys. But a majority of the time I’m not so lucky. I see you added Bear and that is great but how do you find the people who are into bears and into chubby guys. This should just be an easy addition to the Tribes section. You could even make an announcement to the lgbt community and see how many new/returning clients you could get. I know I have left and come back to Grindr at least 7 times in my lifetime just from being tired of all the hate I would receive. (Recently I haven’t but in the beginning I did.) Please consider the addition of Chub and Chaser to the Tribes section of your app.

Thank you for your time.

Kevin B.

Allow all users to submit a “verified” profile pic. You can choose to have your profile pic verified or not. Only verified profiles will have “Request verified Pic button” (the button can be greyed out/ inactive until verification). You can hide your profile pic but only users with a verified pic can request AND when a request is approved rhe other user is automatically given acces to the others verified pic. At least ability to open once before being able to revoke access. Allow Xtra users to have multiple Profile photos with a “Lock/ Unlock” feature similiar to Adam4Adam. One of those photos be verified. Replacing a verified photo would require re-verification accordingly to keep said profile button functional. A unique identifier for Xtra users might cool. Grinder should find a fair way to limit no face/ no info profiles.

Moderators of profile pics should be set to guidelines as well. I tried uploading a picture of my chest and stomach (above the belly button) 3 times and was rejected each time. I am a slim male so not much muscle mass. I decided to test a theory and tried uploading a picture of my husband who is muscular. Same picture type except his was below the belly button. It was immediately approved. I then tried uploading my picture again and it was this time approved. Just because someone has more muscle or the moderator is more attracted to them should mean nothing. By allowing this, you are perpetuating the stigma that attractiveness is the only thing worth noticing. This app may be deemed “social media,” but let’s call it what it is...a hookup app and even less attractive people are deserving of the same treatment as the “pretty people.”