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Do you have any insider knowledge from your time with Grindr on

1) why the app appears to remain a terribly bad buggy mess and never seems to improve? Is there any awareness of this in the company? Is it just a legacy code issue?

2) why the desktop web version was shut down?

3) why unlimited pricing is that outrageous?




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.


> 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?





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