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1) If everyone on the app finds great matches, everyone will stop using the app, and therein kill the possibility of the company in making a profit. 2) They la

1) If everyone on the app finds great matches, everyone will stop using the app, and therein kill the possibility of the company in making a profit. 2) They laid off developers to save money, and desktop apps can be hacked to get around paywalls and user controls a lot more easily than on mobile apps, so getting rid f desktop apps always looks like a win for a software maker. 3) There is so much competition with expensive cloud host overhead that if a company can gaslight users into thinking that their app is worth money, they push it all the way in a bid to maximize their traditionally weak earnings on the deceptively small user bases they have... They also create tons of fake accounts and profiles to also emulate that they are running vibrant communities.

ahtihn 4y ago
> desktop apps can be hacked to get around paywalls and user controls a lot more easily than on mobile apps This would imply that paywalls and user controls aren't implemented entirely on the server side, which sounds like an obviously bad idea?
- pcthrowaway 4y ago
  Hmm, well it wouldn't be the first time: - https://web.archive.org/web/20190223153650/http://www.ydesouza.com/tinder https://web.archive.org/web/20190223153650/http://www.ydesou... - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8173197 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8173197 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28303536 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28303536