Dear Grindr,
This an important message. I understand that in the recent update Grindr has disallowed usage of "Mock GPS". But Please lend me an ear for a minute.
There are many like me who still have to live and work in insensitive areas. Where local people are insensitive, apathetic and hateful towards LGBT community.
My recent experience of using the app in the small town I'm working at was bitter. Everyday I get followed by a local Gay guy from my office to my local residence. Another guy ended up blackmailing me and it was reported too.

My point is, Grindr is not just a dating app for many like me. It's way for me to stay connected to lgbt community. I need to use the mock location to stay safe and access Grindr from cities where I don't face any threat yet I'm able to have dozens of healthy conversations with many people, many of whom have eventually become friends with me.

Please do consider rolling back disablement of using mock location. It's a life saver.

Regards

Being able to explore with the aid of Fake GPS.

I paid for my Xtra membership when it was possible to use Grindr on a GPS simulator. It allowed me to let myself be seen in different neighbourhoods in my town while I worked at home. Now it's no longer possible and I feel cheated as a customer.

Allow fake gps location for safety and security, don't want stalker at the front gate

Nice suggestion

Make sure to fill all the stats and entries. Empty profiles are bs. User must enter the details, stats, and should be allowed in only after the entries are filled. No point allowing a profile that says only "online now" in a blank screen!

That the field "position" is mandatory but can hide as it is done in "age".

For Grindr to not work / Open when fake gps is open or active on the phone. This will reduce the fake profiles in the area.

To help with incomplete or blank profiles allow an option to only let people see the information in your profile that they also shared. If they don't list a height or weight they can't see yours or if they don't share milage yours isn't shared to them.

You're onto something. People have completely blank profiles then get rude when you ask them the typical questions.

Would love to be able to connect with other poz guys or prep users!

We can filter out race but I think we should filter out between poz neg and prep as well all other sites have this filter why not add it to grinder as well.

I am not interested in older men yet I consistently get messages from them though I have it in my profile that I am not interested. They don't read it. Plus I get a lot of messages from sugar daddy bots. It'd be nice if you could at least for the free version make it so I can make myself invisible to guys of certain ages. You could apply the option to everything on premium, like body types, weights, heights, tribes, HIV status, etc.

Don't allow blank profiles. So please make all details mandatory except face picture

That makes no sense...personally a married man is hotter ;) coming from a bi married man whose wife knows and participates from time to time. Even she agrees a married man sneaking around to sleep with men is just hot.

Make it mandatory the filling of ethnicity, body type, position, and HIV status, (just like age) to make filters more useful and the Xtra experience more meaningful.
Create host and travel info options in profile.

Do not allow totally blank profiles. Most likely spammers or hiding their real facts.... I know there is no trust on here, but that is carrying things a bit too far.

Please make it compulsory for all Grindr members and non-members to fill in the profile to join. Too many people on Grindr now with no pic, no profile, and no distance. I don't care if they don't want their face pic up but a profile is essential. It will also help weed out fakes.

I agree! Even being undetectable gets me blocked most of the time. Would be nice to easily find someone who can relate.

Prevent users feom using grindr if they use fake gps to chamge their location on android devices, tinder has already done that , lots of faker and staker use those apps to find where a person live even if they live 1000 of miles away