New viewers/taps page is awful
Not only do you provide a page that shows the last three viewers of your profile that you can't interact with without paying ridiculous amounts of money, but now in the latest release you're making it front and center as opposed to taps? I get tap notifications all the time and when I click on them, now it takes me directly to the views page instead and then I have to tap again to get to the page to show who has tapped me?
Whoever is in charge of product management at Grindr needs to take a serious pause and consider whether or not they're in the right role. You all are intentionally making this app less and less nice to use and it shocks me that anyone ever uses your app at all anymore. It's buggy as fuck, full of bots, constantly shoving ads down people's throats, and even after you pay for it, you're still requested to pay more for additional features that are bullshit. It's like you're actively developing an app with the intent to make people not want to use it.
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RT3 commented
It's called aggressive monetization, and they do this intentionally well aware of the degradation of the UX (user experience).
They know they're the top dogs within the LGBT dating apps, and they know despite how much shit they throw in, they have discerned that the mere prospect of getting a few bucks from you far outweighs the consequence of "user churn", when someone abandons a service due to deteriorating factors.
So threats of departure won't really affect corporate decisions when their profit margin is so secure as to risk losing paying users. The baffling thing to me is the utter disregard for subscribed members including their trigger happy account bans without so much as an appeal process. It all seems very sloppy with issues emerging without consideration to bugs and other issues while haphazardly addressing the more critical concerns.
The best and only thing to do and one I highly suggest others follow thru is establishing an ad block service via VPN or DNS or both and block the ads server traffic. Hit them where it hurts, their ad revenue stream. Also it should be obvious and go without saying but move to the myriad alternative apps. Grindr is only able to get away with this because users keep coming back because it's the one app everyone knows and use. Break the pattern and migrate to services that do not exploit monetizing every aspect of the UX as aggressive as these greedy bellend hacks.