Darn, so much for getting Tinder on F-Droid :( I was hoping they were going to start distributing APKs directly but nope, just seems they're directly processing payments for in app purchases, rather than using the Play Store
On a side note, I launched Tinder recently to poke around and I see they're now offering read receipts as a feature. Purchasing "Tinder Gold" to see who has "liked" you, I can understand. Getting read receipts though? Ehh, it feels a bit far.
Don't get me wrong though, it's fully what I would expect from any VC funded entity. You've gotta keep showing growth until the end
Hahaha I'm sorry, I know this doesn't "stimulate intellectual curiosity" per the rules, but I couldn't let that sentence go given the colloquial meaning of the word "poke".
I like read receipts because they help me not feel like I'm talking into the abyss. It moves the needle a tiny, tiny bit closer to more face-to-face characteristics.
People seem to prefer it at large. If you turn off read receipts on WhatsApp, then it disables them for you too. Yet I'm not sure I've seen anyone disable it.
I absolutely hate them. I hate not being able to read a text and respond to it on my own time. It doesn't do anything for face-to-face characteristics whatsoever but it does put pressure on me to respond. If it's that urgent, call me, or just make plans with me to get coffee or something.
KakaoTalk [0] does this and I end up just having way more notifications because I don't want to leave someone "on read" until I get around to responding. Actually, many, if not most people "read" incoming texts via the preview from notification centers so they can read it without feeling like they have to respond right then.
I hate how it conditioned me over time to check repeatedly to see if someone had read my text or not. You could argue that they might've just wanted to respond later, but that's not the "culture" of how kakaotalk is used generally. I have some friends that take anywhere from ~3 days to 2 weeks to respond but they don't open the text until then. I vastly prefer imessage or other apps now simply because I can toggle off read receipts.
[0]: kakaotalk is the messaging app of Korea. I don't think I've ever had someone send me an actual text or phone call outside of KakaoTalk. Line (Japan) is similar and also has read receipts unfortunately.
Software inside the official F-Droid repository has to be open source. You can however simply add additional repositories to the F-Droid client which everyone can host following its own rules.
On a side note, I launched Tinder recently to poke around and I see they're now offering read receipts as a feature. Purchasing "Tinder Gold" to see who has "liked" you, I can understand. Getting read receipts though? Ehh, it feels a bit far.
Don't get me wrong though, it's fully what I would expect from any VC funded entity. You've gotta keep showing growth until the end