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Tinder: Features Tinder should consider adding to their next release


Tinder aka the most popular location-based dating and social discovery service application which accomplished billion swipes per day in 2014. (Imagine the number in 2016) should be considered adding following features to their next big release. (Let's say for version 6.0.0) Again this is my personal opinion since I truly believe that these features might be able to increase the UX and eventually the number of users of the application.So here it goes...

  1. Feature to select and delete messages.

    This will be wonderful feature for the users who messed up a conversation with a girl or a boy (we've all been there) and now wants to delete that text bubble/s from the conversation because it's painful to even look at is and realize the fact that he/she is that dumb to ask something like that from a person. After a incident like this many people comes to a point where they tell themselves "I'm never using Tinder again" which is bad for the business.So I think they might able to reduce the impact by adding a message deletion feature. (like WhatsApp as shown above)  



  2. Feature to auto deactivate account once the user uninstalls Tinder from the device.

    This is a big one. Because so far (As far as I know) once the user uninstalls the app from the device even the user is not interacting with the app the profile will be there in the server as a active user. which creates dead users and eventually it will decreases the UX. So in order to get rid of that problem all they have to do is to add a functionality to auto deactivate the Tinder profile once they have uninstalled the app.
  3. Reduce coupling with Facebook.

    I know I know Tinder gets all its magic from Facebook, but sometimes it can be a huge reason for dropping the UX of the app. I have seen many in many blogs people have asked whether they can use Tinder without connecting to Facebook. I believe that it is a valid concern, there can be a use case where a particular user wants to use Tinder while his/her Facebook account is deactivated. So far Tinder doesn't allow this.I think they should.


Anyways this is just something that i felt throughout the years. Feel free to comment whether you are agreeing with me or not. And let's hope that they will add at least some of the features to their next release.




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