Tinder’s UI is Annoying as fuck

Let’s be blunt. I’m single. I’m kinda lonely. I kinda want a boyfriend or a girlfriend or something. I’m gonna try Tinder. I’ve used Tinder in the past, to varying degrees of success. In fact, Tinder is the reason why I wasted a year and a half of my life on a guy who really didn’t want to leave his comfort zone. And this article in particular, I originally created it in late 2021 when I started using the app. You’d think, all these years later, things would improve, but no, things are definitely worse now.

I think the graphics are the first downgrade. Visually, the app is both cleaner and messier. It’s not changed that much, but the graphics are kinda inconsistent. Most of the icons are flat or have a very light gradient, but on the actual profile page, the buttons all have weird outlines which stick out, and the Like graphic when you swipe right is oddly tacky and horrible with green flames and an awkward animation. Swiping left just has a rather boring pink nope. The Match screen is particularly tacky, with a green heart background. Considering how mow people don’t seem to ever message me back, the hearts are particularly insulting.

But Tinder’s UI is also twitchy and sensitive, when it wants to be. Slight taps on either side can easily go too far, and an entire profile will rotate to one side if you just touch the side of the screen. It’s way too easy to make a mistake, so I tend to just press the buttons instead. Except half the buttons are premium-only buttons, the undo, super like and boost buttons all have to be paid for, and the button to see the rest of someone’s profile is small and tucked away to the right. I generally like to look at people’s profiles, and swiping up or down often gets translated into swiping left or right, which is annoying.

I get there not being an undo button, but it is easy to make a mistake, and you kinda don’t want to make a mistake on a dating app. At least, you don’t if you’re a woman. With guys, swiping right on a woman by accident isn’t too bad, and could be a good thing. With women, it can lead to all sorts of chaos. One time I swiped right by accident (I was trying to get rid of a hair) the guy ended up matching with me later on and they immediately asked where I lived and if they could come over to my place for sex.

Other times though, the app just doesn’t do anything. I like to tap on people’s profiles when messaging them if I get a bunch of people messaging me at once (mostly because a lot of people have the same name here – there are, I kid you not, 4 people called Andreas on my current list of matches) but half the time, I have to tap multiple times on the person’s icon to get their profile to open. Why? Who knows.

The app also seems to take a long time to load. Considering that most of the app is nothing more than simple graphics, text and photos, I don’t get this. Tapping a notification for a message makes me sit through a blank screen too often or not. Or it doesn’t load messages, and I have to go back to my list of matches and go back again.

And what for? Fuck all, that’s what. No one messages me back and the handful of potentials I’ve come across have either cancelled or been assholes.

I guess I now know what it feels like to be a guy on Tinder.