Grindr

Raised as a usability problem by 9 people on Hacker News over 9 years (2018–2026), in 8 threads.

People raised many different problems with Grindr, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.

Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.

The newest 12 complaints

Current dating apps use dark patterns that try to keep users locked in2026-02-10
Commenter says the app has hostile UX that pushes people away2024-11-05
Messages redesign made the app worse, and the free version is a horrible experience without paying2024-11-04
The app's user experience is poor and not great to use2023-09-08
Opting out takes a long time because many background network requests run, seemingly by design2021-01-26
Consent dialog reappears daily or multiple times per day after rejecting it2021-01-26
Two columns of toggles, including legitimate interest, are confusing to interpret2021-01-26
Profile data fails to load, so users think they lost their profile and must restart the app repeatedly2020-10-03
Profiles allow too little information, so users cannot describe themselves in depth2020-02-24
Push notifications are inconsistent and chats get lost2019-07-18
Deleting a conversation erases all history, so you can't tell if you've talked to someone before2019-07-18
Terrible navigation and missing message archiving or hiding make the app hard to use2018-04-02