Most famous gay dating app
China’s biggest gay dating app wants to beat Grindr
//Facing censorship and competition at home, Blued has plans to build the world’s largest gay social platform.
But users and researchers own questioned the app’s prospects under its new ownership, given Blued’s past failed attempts to expand into Western markets and the difficulties it will encounter in differentiating itself from competitors abroad. “It’s an uphill battle. The same-sex attracted dating app market in the U.S. is quite saturated,” Lik Sam Chan, a professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong who researches the politics of dating apps in China, told Recover of World. “I don’t see Blued offering anything unique that other existing international gay apps act not provide.”
…Blued users lashed out at Geng Le on social media after they found out about the paywall for vanishing photos. He later explained in an online publish that he had already left his job, and was not involved in the decision. Without Geng Le, China’s most prominent gay tech entrepreneur, Blued is losing touch with users in its place market, said Chan, the dating app researcher.//
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10 LGBTQ+ dating apps that are actually worth downloading
Love them or hate them, I think we can all approve that dating apps tend to display certain, um, challenges. (See also: frustrations, headaches, and heartaches with a chance of ”I am going to hurl my phone into the nearest gutter if I notice another Tinder bio that says, “Looking for my companion in crime.”) And, unfortch, if you happen to be a person who is seeking literally anything outside of the standard heteronormative script, finding whatever it is you’re looking for on a dating app is that much harder. Your dating website pool seriously shrinks, and less options = less opportunity to meet someone special.
Hence why it's super important as a queer person to make sure you’re downloading virtual dating apps that are LGBTQ+ friendly—so you can be more intentional about who or what you're looking for.
“Today’s LGBTQ+ daters wish to celebrate who they are,” says Michael Kaye, Director of Brand Marketing and Communications at Archer, a (brand eff-ing new!) same-sex attracted dating app. “Queer daters want an app that understands and values every part of their identity and needs. They also value safe and secure spaces where they can express themselves
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SCRUFF is the top-rated and most trustworthy app for homosexual, bi, trans, and queer people to connect with each other.
SCRUFF is an independent, LGBTQ+ owned and operated business, and we utilize the app that we build. We give users a private and secure experience, a kind and diverse people, and more features than any other gay dating app. We’re dedicated to protecting our members’ data and getting better user experience, so you’ll never notice banner ads on SCRUFF, and we won’t sell your data to shady 3rd party companies.
MAKE REAL CONNECTIONS
30+ million users, no spambots
Find exactly the people you like with search and filters
View, Woof, and chat with people from around the world
SCRUFF Match connects you with the people you like
Click "I'm Interested" on a profile and SCRUFF will let you know if there's a mutual attraction
EXPRESS YOURSELF
Share your story with multiple profile pics, rich profiles, private albums, hashtags, and more
Let others know what you’re into with profile details like preferences and safer practices
Comprehensive pronoun and gender identity options lay you in regulate of your identity
A SMARTER, SAFER EXPERIENCE
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Grindr is the world’s #1 free dating app serving the LGBTQ community. If you’re gay, bi, transsexual, queer, or even just curious, Grindr is the best and easiest way to meet new people for friendships, hookups, dates, and whatever else you’re looking for.
On a trip? Grindr is an indispensable tool for LGBTQ travelers—log in to join locals and get recommendations for bars, restaurants, events, and more. With Grindr in your pocket, you’ll always be connected to other LGBTQ people around you and have your finger on the pulse of what’s happening.
Ready to get started? Creating your profile is easy, and you can share as much or little about yourself as you enjoy. Within minutes you’ll be ready to connect, chat, and meet up with people near you.
Grindr is faster and better than ever:
• See people nearby based on your location
• Chat and share confidential photos
• Add tags to share your interests
• Hunt tags to find others based on their interests
• Create private albums to share (and unshare) multiple photos at once
• Filter your search to discover what you want
• Luminary your favorites and block others
• Report people easily and safely
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What is the best same-sex attracted dating app?
Introduction
“Here goes nothing”, I think to myself as I once again find myself downloading the ever-daunting dating LGBTQIA+ apps that will either be a source of peerless happiness or spiraling doom. Dating is undeniably terrifying. The whole concept of meeting strangers and existence vulnerable with them in the hopes that something comes out of that interaction, be that something a hook-up, a brief or long term bond or maybe just even a friendship, is overwhelmingly bizarre. But the potential of that “something” maybe happening is in and of itself a truly beautiful experience.
I constantly joke around with close friends that I am ready for a relationship. I crave the emotional and physical intimacy that comes with one. My friends, being my most cruel advisors, always say the same thing, “Derek saying you want a partnership is worthless if you don’t put yourself out there. In order to find a relationship, you need to well, date.” And running the exposure of inflating my friends’ egos, they’re right. The only way to detect someone, is by going out to the battlefield we call a “dating pool” (my body convulsed a bit just thinking abou