As of right now thousands of votes are out there for a filter by gender, but adding gender as a mandatory requirement to have a profile will make it easier to find what someone is looking for. Also, adding a racial filter back like some of the original version's is helpful to find what someone is looking for. Some have fetishes with certain racial types and others just aren't attracted to a certain racial type and when feeds get filled with genders or races or really anything that someone is snot looking for it makes the experience unpleasant, not totally worth it and most likely pushes individuals to other sites that offer such settings.