Disclaimer: It's been over 2 years since I used Grindr/Scruff/etc. Grindr is a truly terrible app. Not because it allows men to hookup with other men but becau

Disclaimer: It's been over 2 years since I used Grindr/Scruff/etc. Grindr is a truly terrible app. Not because it allows men to hookup with other men but because it is just a very badly designed app. It would go for YEARS with barely a change at all then they would add some stupid useless feature that was a direct copy from Scruff (and friends). It was impossible to manage your conversations, there was a constant stream of new messages and if you deleted a message thread you lost ALL the history. This means you could either delete threads of people you weren't interested in so you could keep track of the ones you were but then if you got messaged again by someone you deleted it was impossible to know if you had talked to them before. It was extremely frustrating to use. I didn't like to delete messages because often a profile picture would be blank or a (misleading) torso/other. Then in the thread the person would send me pictures and I would know that I had talked to them and wasn't interested. The number of people who signed on, created an account, "got off", deleted the app, then created a new account the next time they logged on was STAGGERING. The problem was that if I wasn't interesting in them and deleted the message then the next time they messaged me I wouldn't have any of those pictures/chats to remember who they were. It was a catch-22, either clean up your message threads and risk have the SAME conversation over and over again OR keep all your message threads and make it impossible to find the threads of people you wanted to talk to. Also IIRC, Grindr would SCROLL TO THE TOP of your messages when you backed out of a thread. This meant if you were searching for someone with a non-obvious/blank profile picture you would scroll down, click on one, see the chats and know it's the wrong person, then have to remember how far you had scrolled down so you could go that far then keep looking. It was infuriating to use the app. Couple all of that with the spam, harassment, new account creation to evade blocks, pissed off people because you weren't interested in fucking them, confusing UI/UX, inconsistent push notifications for paid accounts, and more.... I fucking hate Grindr. At least Scruff had a nice UI and tools/features that I actually liked using but the user-base.... Grindr DWARFED Scruff's user-base, it's why on Scruff you would stay "on the grid" for like 24 hours after opening the app while on Grindr it would be like 1hr. They had to make it seem like there were more people than there were. I sincerely hope that my days of gay hookup apps are 100% behind me. It's a a cesspool that I never want to set foot in again. That said... If I ever become single again I'll probably be back. For all it's failings it's where I met my BF.