Boost is just a greedy money making scheme dreamt up by Grindr. It's in complete contradiction to the Explore function. Now when I search an area I'm going to visit I end up seeing profiles from guys who are nowhere near there. Why am I paying for Unlimited just be greeted by guys at the top of my grid who are miles away?. Come on Grindr, come up with some other money grabbing idea that doesn't spoil the use of the app for others.

I think boost is a great idea but it’s expensive too. I’ve had a few hits on there. Can you give incentives in price reduction for discounts or something as many times as you’ve ordered it to make user want to use the feature more?

Right. It is bullshit. I'm an unlimited member. So the $30 I pay each month doesn't include this feature? That's horse shit! Here's a great way to get yourself boosted. Change one of your photos. Then puts you in the "Fresh" section for a while and you will get a lot of profile views (if guys find you interesting). I do that a lot. I change a photo and then all of a sudden I start getting more views, more taps and more messages without paying another $10.

Totally agree. Thought it strange that the 1st square is taken by someone 9km away and not on my doorstep. I cannot imagine why anyone would pay extra for this seriously flawed service. I pay the monthly Xtra subscription, but will be canceling it soon unless this nonsense desists.

Please stop boosting if I want to see Randy Rainbow all day I’ll look at his insta. It’s beyond annoying to see a grid with guys not close and not cute who can afford to boost. Find a work around cause I know you won’t lose the revenue stream.

People paying for the app should absolutely have the option to remove boosted profiles!! This is terrible marketing.

I see the option to buy profile boost for $9.99 but I can’t click on it. I was in the beta program but removed myself to see if that was maybe why, and it still is there and unable to be clicked. Deleted and redownloaded the app and it’s now only in the viewed me area but I still can’t click it. I saw it wasn’t in all areas but I assume the button is since I can see it so making it available in nyc would be cool

Boosts are being very annoying on the app. People that are more than 5km away keep appearing to me, and I cant see people who are close. On the initial page (the first 12 profiles), 40% is from people using boost right now.

That is when tinder went down, when they started to algorythimize the people you can see and charge for that. It drops the chance of being seen/seeing other people you are interested on that do not pay and people stop using it.

Please go back to the default ordering and leave boosts on another tab, for example the "New" tab

While it sounds like a great feature, the Boost is actually getting a bit annoying and being used by people to catfish and lie about their distance. It would be nice if we can filter out the visibility of Boosts or mark them with a symbol, so that we know they are the Boosted ones.

Having a feature to disable profiles that are boosted, showing up on my grid as most of them are 7/8 miles away. Nearby profile pushed down on the grid making it harder to navigate through it.

Why am I paying for Grindr unlimited, now that boost have taken over my grid? I live in NYC where everyone on my grid should be within 1-2 miles max. Now boosts have overtaken the majority of my grid and I can't see anyone who is actually near me?!

The whole point of Grindr is too find people near me... not 15 miles away? This is sooooo stupid. Your app developers really fucked up on this one.

I live in central london and I pay for Grindr xtra. The boost feature has destroyed the app. The closest profile to me is currently 42km away and the furthest 1600km away. I assume that these are all people that have boosted their profile. Please include an option to block boosted profiles from appearing on the app if they are not within a specified KM range.

How much time and how many clicks wasted just so greedy Grindr can take a bit of money from users willing to pay to boost their profile.

@Grindr: Proximity-based convenience is one of your selling points. By entering a Google ‘ppc’ type model, you are making a key feature redundant.

XTRA sub cancelled if this stupid feature remains.

This explains why suddenly my grid is full of guys 7 or 8 km away… this is such a bad idea

Agreed and the only guys who do it are SOLICITING for me to buy their sex or buy their only fans. It’s such bull shit

It’s literally just porn stars trying to get a bigger twitter / only fans following. Such bull shit. More advertisements. I’m not trying to find an escort this feature is so ridiculous it’s just boosting people who want you to pay for sex or buy their material

Please come up with a solution for this boosting. My grid is filled with guys who don’t live close and are not cute but can afford to boost. My views are cut in half as are my messages. The entire purpose of this site is distance. Please come up with a better idea

My grid is already useless since you removed the ethnic filter because I can't filter for the people I'm looking to hook up or have a romance with, that's when I cancelled my paid subscription. Before the removal it was difficult to find a match and now it's impossible. So now I waste my time blocking them in order to see who I could match with. Then we've gone from impossible to surreal with the invasion of transwomen, transmen, cross dressers, femmes, straight men, straight couples so I waste my time to block them as well. The straw that broke the camel's back is the Boost feature, I already have non-matching ethnicities and genders cluttering my grid, and the new feature started filling any tile left with people who live 7km+ away from me MAKING ME BELIEVE that they're 200 meters away or less because Grindr guidelines recommend those users to HIDE their distance to achieve total cunning behaviour. Obviously I will never met them and I started spending time deleting them as well until I realised that it's too much work for no return so I am currently trying to migrating as many contacts I can to Telegram then I will delete Grindr as I deleted Scruff and I will never ever consider installing the app again not even free. Congratulations!

Not only Grindr doesn't give a heck, in the documentation they also recommend the users paying for the Boost to hide their distance to achieve a total cunning behaviour. Now I'm blocking them as well amongst all the other ones I can't get rid of because the ethnic filter has been removed, there's no filter for biological sex and can't effectively filter out the trans tribe. This is probably the last straw that broke the camel's back.

Grindr is primarily a hookup app and a big part of that is distance / proximity to each other.

Therefore it baffles me that for a fee, people can now pay to boost themselves to the top of *MY* grindr grid even though they are 4 or 5 miles away, taking up valuable space and wasting my time when I click their profiles.

I paid a hefty fee for Unlimited (and I now regret it) but it's a total insult that my experience as a paid member is now being altered because a bunch of morons who live nowhere near me (and have paid MUCH less than me to "boost") are desperate to be seen.

I can only imagine how frustrating it is for unpaid members, who only get to see a limited number of profiles, now having the top 4 or 5 spaces on their grids taken up by members who are 4 or 5 miles away.

As a paid member, we should have the option of not having to see boosted profiles. It's really unfair considering we've paid such a massive fee for Unlimited or Xtra. Please do something about this!