As the title says, BRING BACK THE ETHNICITY FILTER! Just because a subset of users don’t want it doesn’t mean to erase it. As many have stated before, som individuals live in area where one group is more predominant compared to others, thus making it limited for those individuals who are more comfortable closer personal preference. It isn’t limiting or racist for an user experience to the LGBTQ+ community to seek the comfort of their own kin. Having the ethnicity filter doesn’t mandate the user to use it, but gives this options just like there are filters for position, body type, age, etc. This is especially true for people whom pay for Xtra or Unlimited accounts for such features to enjoy the experience.

Bring back the ethnicity filter

For those of us XTRA/Unlimited subscribers who need to take a break from Grindr due to work-related, health-related, or relationship-related reasons, it would be helpful if we could freeze our subscription so we don’t lose the remaining time we’ve paid for. Since we can’t request refunds, at least don’t penalize us when conflicts arise in our personal life that demand us to step away from the app for a bit. You can still keep our money, just give us the option to freeze. This would be especially helpful for those of us on year-long subscriptions.
(To prevent users from freezing for just one or two days at a time to simply extend their membership, you can set a two-week minimum on freezes. And to encourage users to return to the app—or else forfeit the remaining days/months on their subscription—you can place a freeze limit of six months.)
Please implement this socially responsible feature for your paying customers. Thank you

A filter is not racist. People are racist. Removing a filter doesn’t do anything.

Some people have ****** preferences for certain ethnicities and are not interested in e.g Caucasians, which is why the filter was there in the first place.

Removing it is a ridiculous corporate attempt to make a statement that you can profit off.

If you want to do something then help users report racist speech on your platform more easily and donate the millions of dollars that you make off subscriptions each month.

But don’t make your platform worse for people by removing the ability for members of the LGBTQ+ community to locate those people that they want to speak with.

Many African-American people and non-Caucasians around the world only want to see other people of the same colour or ethnicity.

People have ****** preferences based on height, type of hair, body type and ethnicity and that’s not a racist thing.

It’s natural and surely if the LGBTQ+ movement have taught us anything, it’s that if it exists, it’s natural. So a ****** preference towards a particular ethnicity exists then it’s natural and should not be discriminated against by removing that option.

It’s offensive, wrong and a show of complete lack of insight and willingness to lay down to a popular sentiment to say that a ****** preference based on ethnicity is a racist thing.

You could have chosen to do so many other things to show support, but instead you chose to make your own platform that people rely on to find each other worse.

Typical poor corporate judgement.