Hey Bill you're absolutely right pussy ass gay men like you definitely don't talk about this shit in out of fear of being ostracized because guess what you're the people that have fallen out of touch I'm a younger gay man mid 20s technically a twink and you're half the reason I don't hang out with men your age anymore because damn even if they are the same age as me too if I hear that shit especially my friend group I don't got a friend anymore it's like you all pretended to care about trans and by people before we gained you know all right to marriage and then after that us younger days have moved forward and you guys have been stuck in that moment in 2012 also to the person talking about the tribe thing you can actually feel to buy it but you do have to pay for unlimited which is $40 a month but everybody here kind of forgets it grinder is the most popular but it's by far not the only app out there and if you take all of the other apps and their user bases and compare them to grinders it's about half and half yes grinder has the majority but don't you just love getting bukakade with ads if you don't pay $40 a month to not be a lot of other apps out there won't bombard you with ads have all these filters that you want checked even has all of these things so just go there or go back to your Glory Days and go to a jack op Cinema or some shit I don't even care at this point if this was not online you all wouldn't be saying anything right now same shit happened when they got rid of the ethnicity filter y'all complained and then you got used to it but secretly in groups I started hearing a lot of racist shit man gay people are the worst

And lastly to everyone saying that grinder used to be an app just for gay men you're all wrong have you ever heard what the founder said he wanted to be a space for LGBT men to safely communicate my friendships and meet up if they wanted to it was originally Just A Plenty of Fish clone it always included gay bisexual trans Etc just as long as everyone was over 18 it was all good I don't know why I fail to see this grinder you're all talking about that only had men on it maybe it was because back then being trans even online was enough to maybe get you murdered also why you all hating on by man Jesus this is why I always scrutinize anyone that messages me on Grindr now maybe watch less professionally shot pornography on a soundstage down in California with ironically straight actors go outside and actually see what the gay community and the LGBT community is now because it never changed you guys just got possessive over something that was never yours

And yes they're a grand mistakes in my writing I'm using voice to type because I can't be bothered to type out just every way that you're so hateful and just wrong cuz you don't know jack shit about behind the scenes of this stuff

Also jet nobody gives a fuck about the Wikipedia definition I happen to help develop the previous version of Jack before the major update to 2.0 and have a lot of friends that work on the development team of Grindr still and you make their jobs a living hell because none of them read this board unless they absolutely have to at this point because of comments that you leave because there's a lot of trans people that have been developing this app since before and after it got sold to a new conglomerate you want something let's get it off so badly well guess what AI coding is actually pretty great now you can make a clone up and no time at all and it can be just for you nobody's stopping you but Grindr has shareholders then they need to make money or else they'll shareholders pull out their Investments God if you hate this app so much because of you know 1/4 of the LGBT acronym there's like nine different apps out there that are this or just go to a gay bar or like DVD store and go to the arcade area that's where men that talk like you usually hang out at being stuck in the fucking '80s

Jet I highly doubt that that's your app's issue and I think it's just your cities issue why don't you just consider moving it's not like Grinders and magical grid that just randomly picks people from all over the country to fill it and it's just hating on you and deciding to fill with things you don't like also straight men that are confused yeah those are called gay men they're just in the closet and probably Married with Children and don't want to ruin their marriage but they still want to get laid why does every person on this board feel like this app is like a part of themselves it's a goddamn publicly traded company with shareholders who don't give a fuck about any of you no offense but well offense to you yet but yeah if you don't like what's in your grid drive 10 miles in a different direction and if your city is not big enough well move to an actual City I swear to God if this wasn't online and you aren't Anonymous and I'm talking into every one of y'all on here you would all shut the fuck up real quick and change your tune cuz you all think that you're speaking truthfulness and you're angry and you think that your apps been taken over and by the way I'm a gay man who likes men is a twink you know the typical thing you see in anything filmed by Helix Studios back in 2006 onward it's always the older ones that act like this are you over 40 are you having a crisis get some therapy man or maybe just find a different city probably a conservative one that would probably be where you could find a grid that would be ideal for you

Filipe get a grip you're not being raped when a trans person looks at your profile also I highly doubt you pay the $40 paywall to even see if they did in the first place I'm using Grinders since it was in beta had no ads and all the features are free had ethnicity filters and all sorts of wonderful things but I don't think inclusion of trans people on the app when they were never not allowed there in the first place is a bad thing sorry if you think I'm being harsh on you but if you're saying that you feel like you're being raped maybe don't use apps like these I like the trans people finally feel welcome enough to actually use them when they were allowed to use them the whole time you'll go to a gay pride parade all dressed up in rainbows and your short shorts your dress and drag on drag nights at the club but God forbid somebody that finally feels comfortable in their own body use your profile for 5 seconds and then doesn't say anything to you and if they do just block them well hide them or if you really hate it that much don't bother to the developers and just give them the $40 a month they want and you can technically hide them but damn man get therapy in fact I think a lot of the gay community needs to get therapy cuz you ain't the first person that I've heard say Grindr is for men also you're just kind of screaming into a void and arguing with other people on the internet cuz the developers don't actually read this I used to be one of them back in like 2010 before I got sold to a Chinese conglomerate I wish I could say I wish people like you didn't exist in this world but unfortunately you do and I'm never going to wish you not to I just hope you and every other person on here that says that kind of shit that makes trans people lose that tiny shred of self-confidence they gained to finally want to get on the dating scene in the community that they're supposed to be a part of and read or hear you saying that you feel raped when they look at you I doubt you'd say that to their face is in real life Jesus is why I'm a gay person but I'm barely active in the gay community anymore it's so toxic now

I agree with this as when Gaydar was around pre-grindr days you had the original Gaydar, Gaydar Girls and now with more inclusivity there should be a dedicated Trans option to allow you to only focus on the actual gender/choice that you want. Even Scruff has a mode called Bear Mode where it changes the view filter to filter out all non bear accounts. In this day and age and for the amount Grindr and ripping people of with the cost of the app, they can afford to adopt this feature, as it wouldn't require a massive code change , just a main switch to view Guys, Trans/Admirers and/or even a new Male/Female cohort for Bi People.

A ver se están peleando por algo tan ordinario , que es tan fácil como usar simplemente la lógica.... Todas las personas que se dicen ofendidas porque creen que no se le respetan sus derechos al no aceptarlas o aceptarlos tal y como se definen en su mente. Y que intentan aparentar su acto justificándolo con palabras y entendimientos muy adornados pero que para el caso significa solamente una cosa: no podemos tapar el sol con un dedo y aquí y en China existen nada más dos géneros femenino y masculino un hombre jamás podrá ser una mujer y viceversa por más que lo intente por más que se opere jamás lo va a poder conseguir jamás podrá reproducir un ser humano.. se puede percibir como sea mujer animal etcétera y es válido lo que no es justo es que intente obligar mi criterio y mi voluntad a esforzarme a percibirla tal y como ella quiere cuando tanto la genética como la ciencia como lo lógico dice que es lo contrario... Porque entonces si se sienten tan mujeres en vez de crearse un perfil en grinder porque no se lo hacen en tinder digo ahí encajan perfectamente bien tal y como ella se perciben.. pero en lo personal como en la mayoría no me van a dejar mentir entramos a esta aplicación para conocer a gente con nuestra misma afición con los mismos gustos y es desagradable ver tantos perfiles que no encajan con esta ideología con la que se construyó esta aplicación porque entonces hasta nosotros mismos estamos transformando y devaluando lo que viene siendo nuestra comunidad... Porque sí antes había aplicaciones o grupos para encuentro entre mujeres y otras para hombres como lo que es viene siendo grinder por qué ahora dentro de este mismo bloque se le tiene que dar paso a esta distorsión de género que honestamente a la mayoría no nos gusta si soy gay es porque me gustan los hombres porque es mi bandera y porque mi comunidad así lo definió y crecí con ese sello Pero porque me tengo que ajustar a lo que una minoría por tendencias y modas pasajeras se aferran a creer y a obligarnos a hacernos creer cosas que no son y que nunca van a pasar... Pedimos respeto ante la sociedad pero no lo faltamos entre nosotros mismos y yo pienso que también debería de existir el respeto entre espacios en lo que queremos y en lo que somos si yo me considero gay deberían de respetar mi espacio mi entorno a lo que ya se venía planteando y conocido como un espacio gay si quieren construir hacer implementar o simplemente crear otro espacio a su manera y a su forma de pensar pues construyenlo pero no no invadan porque no todos los que piensan de esa forma comulgamos con sus ideologías y si eso fuera una democracia pues somos más los que pensamos de esta forma..

Filters would be utterly useless, as the pay wall would be absurdly high.

i am sure, what i am about to tell you seems rather counter-intuitive..
..but, i still need you to hear me out:

in spite of how it appears, on the surface?
the reality is, no Members of Leadership from grindr pays attention to this board

it is not my intent to be "flippant" adam; i just wonder, if you're leaving that suggestion for the decision makers of grindr, or for us?

you're not the first one (and, sadly, you won't be the last one) to bring up filters

spend about ten minutes skimming this thread

also, take note of when this specific request post was created: april 8th, 2020

soon to be 5 years

what's happened with grindr in that amount of time?

if you've "been around" a while, like i have. . . . .

I think it’s a pretty simple solution.

Filters.

Now filtering only work if their bio has the information to filter.

Gender descriptions should be mandatory on the app.
And in turn if you filter out women or transwomen (same thing) then it also removes you from their grid as well. You can’t see them and they can’t see you.

This prevents unwanted communication while also ensuring everyone has a positive experience.

Expressing sexual DISINTEREST is NOT discrimination. Inclusion and acceptance are SOCIAL issues that have no place in a conversation regarding sexual inclinations.

I have no interest in using an app for every orientation, as I only want to connect with other gay men. I don't want to filter and ignore 30 women, just to get to see a single gay member. Female and trans profiles on a gay app is like adding bacon to a vegan meal: it might add some flavor, but it still ruins the purpose of being vegan. It still ruins the intended experience.

filipe,
the best advice i can give ya on that matter is, we *all* are going to have to do more than just "support" those who pursue the change we desire:
considering, clearly, there is no one undertaking Cogent Action on that front—
—we cannot continue wishing on stars, hoping some Knight In Shyning Armour shall intervene on our behalves

bitching, bickering, and in-fighting on uservoice for another decade isn't gonna accomplish much of anything

*we* have to step up, as a collective, to stand up to the Corporate Millionaires of
GrindR who only see us as commas-and-zeros

the millionaire c-suites who have consistently demonstrated for over a decade now,
they can and *will* continue degrading our grindr experience,
in perpetuity,
because they feel assured that,
functionally,
no one is ever going to stop them from dicking us around

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we also have to be prepared to accept that,
in this wicked, wicked, backwards world,
we *will* face opposition from multiple-fronts,
in our quest to forge our own, exclusive, cis•man-4-cis•man haven

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i am obliged to point out, there remains a "sticky territory" regarding our femme•but•cis brothers, and our transman brethren—

—as i said before, months ago:
while i'm not typically attracted to effeminate dudes either,
(unless they happen to look even more『macho』in the face than i do),
they are still men, not "women"

—and i may just be a bit "queer," myself, considering my openness to intimacy with the right transman

No, I don't have to accept it. I don't have to accept any women or non-binary people seeing my body and sexual informations that I need to put in my profile (considering I'm not and I don't intend to be a ridiculous ghost profile). I don't have to accept it and I will keep supporting who also don't accept it.

Filipe. I understand you just want to see men and be see by men. Seriously though. It’s not hard. If you see someone else who isn’t into gay men who cares. Just move on. What you’re asking for about only men showing up in your profile isn’t going to happen. Have to
Accept and move on.

i'm sure fra would concur, with me, that the overall better solution for our quandary involves the words "ditch" and "grindr"

be it, we ditch the "leadership" of grindr, or be it, we ditch grindr wholesale — anon, you *are* aware we've hashed out this same, tired discussion about "women" on grindr, just on uservoice alone, for over 5 years now?

you should know damnéd well, by now, grindr's never going to grant us the filters we so desperately need
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be sure, by-the-by, to thank our congressional body (and The Don) for 2017's fosta-sesta — that's the legislation which, essentially, shut down all the major venues which transwomen and queer men had for connecting with one another, away from our previously-vaunted, sacred spaces

‎(ironic, that — political ideology *is* involved in this mess..
..but, not in the way you had ascribed it)
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i'm not sure why you're talking to me about "social justice movements" and "political ideologies," by the way — i'm not interested in transwomen, and i would prefer they have their own space, away from what i consider my territory

but, also, someone's being a transwoman is no more a "political ideology" than you being (what i assume) a gay man

transwomen aren't in my wheelhouse either, but i'm not going to go out of my way to make them into a boogeyman

@beeswax

Easy... FILTERS!!!

There's a time and place for social justice movements and political ideologies, but it's certainly not on a hookup app.

Grindr wants us to pay to have the privilege to scroll. And I'm not paying anymore! Been years now. Without ethnic filter and trans filter there's no point to me to pay to waste time scrolling amongst a zillion users I'm not interested into.

alright.

then, let me ask you this:

what solution do you propose, for fixing this problem?

@Beeswax

You prove my point. Any reference you make to "family, umbrella, fragmenting" is an excuse to veer off into divisive identity politics.
This app is supposed to serve our sexual attractions, not political groupings and agendas.

Stop telling us how to think, act and vote.