Keep It Simple, Stupid...

For some reason, the people who run Grindr want to make their users angry. Every update, they fix one problem, but create five more. You (somehow) still have the most users; this app should be great! Instead, it's a bonfire of problems...

• The grid...
• Show me the people in order of distance. That's it! The latest update is now inserting people miles away into the top two/three rows. If they don't have distance on, you've no idea they're miles away.
• Show people who have boosted in a different colour, or something. Again, I'm not interested in people far away.
• Enough with the "for you", "explore" in the main grid. No-one wants it. There is a whole "explore" part of the app if I want to view people outside of my area.
• If I "hide" a profile, it just limits even further the amount of profiles I now see on the grid. I should always get 99 profiles (in the free version at least), regardless of how many I've hidden/blocked. Instead, I now only have ~70 because of people I've hidden.

• Let us gay men filter out trans women. They're all fake accounts anyway.

• Block vs hide...
  Another pointless feature designed to push you into upgrading. Let us fully block people again.

• Favourites tab...
  Bring it back. I don't want to have to keep changing other filters just to see all of my favourites. Again, KISS applies here.

• Right now...
  This really needs a confirmation popup before starting a "session". It's in a place that's too easily clicked accidentally.

• Profile inconsistency...
  The online and favourite markers, and distance values aren't consistent across the app when viewing the same profile, e.g. between the grid and the messages tab, and elsewhere as well.

• Spam accounts...
  You really need to implement some sort of verification system. I'm getting taps and messages, apparently from hundreds of miles away, from clear bots spamming other websites and OF accounts, many times a day. Maybe even something as simple as getting a user to verify their email address?

• Adverts...
  I understand you have to make money. But forcing a full screen ad every other minute when you're just scrolling, or even typing a message, is infuriating. I do like the new "watch an ad to unlock read receipts" feature, however. Get rid of the random popups, and implement more of these watch-an-ad-for-an-extra-feature. I'm sure you'd make more money from higher quality views this way.

• Testing before an update...
  I'm not convinced you even have a testing department. Obvious bugs that just shouldn't exist, and features completely broken in every single update.

• Subscription prices...
  I will never consider upgrading, when the basic features of the app rarely work as intended. You just can't trust that any extra features would work as well, and reading reviews, they don't. Prices are way too high anyway. £6 for an hour on "right now". Ridiculous...

I could go on further, but I've stuck to the main points. I'd be surprised if this gets read, but I've tried to be constructive.

Thanks,