Mobile App Pics

Ahh... The Good Ole Days... When nothing but beautiful Nipples and Torsos filled the computer screen....

Our who's on is fill of nipples and headless torsos. Soooooo frustrating!

Well now, doesn’t those gumbies just make you want to click on their profile?

Nope......... just one less site resource to utilize.

~Allen

Who's on.

We have 4 Gumbys

10 that will/should be Gumbys under the new rules

6 profiles with compliant default pics

Not ours. We see mostly pics, maybe 7-8 gumbys over the first 2 pages.

Who’s on is 7/8 gumbies.

~Allen

Wow, I just looked myself and there are tons of adult apps on the apple store. I’ve never looked before...a bit surprised.

Tramp

I'm calling bullshit

I just looked in the apple app store where several other swinger sites already have apps and, surprise, there are suggestive pictures on the screen shots on the main page.

Whatever game you are playing with this re rating of pics, it has zero to do with Apple app store rules.

~Scamp

Interesting, thanks. Didn't look on the menu. If you scroll to the bottom it says to turn your phone to landscape for hot dates, which is easy enough and frames the calendar pretty well.

Another step in making this site obsolete.

Good point.. Kik does the same thing.

Is this app going to go thru my contact list and send them a friend invite like FB?

:-)

~Allen

I don't know why SLS didn't explain the new app correctly from the beginning. They used wording like Child Friendly and General public. When what they should of done is say, we are creating a mobile app to access the site and your public photos must be XY&Z.

TBH I'm surprised they didn't just delete everyone's photos and make us start from scratch,

LIKE THEY DID OUR EMAILS!!

There’s only one landscaping mode I would like to see.

~Allen.

Correct - you can use the menu bar to see hot dates. But they also show up on the SLS home page for mobile if you turn your phone to landscape mode.

Agree, you don’t need to landscape if you use the menu bar.

~Allen

"Which is why you need to turn your phone to landscape mode to see hot dates."

I've never had to turn to landscape to see hot dates.

I still see the applied profile pictures for these so called mythical gumbies.

:shrugs:

~Allen

Seriously though they are asking us the lifetime members for help with the overwhelming number of app photos, the very apps that are becoming such a problem to those from whom they are asking for the help. What happens if we just ignore the request? Perhaps it becomes such a burden it is no longer viable for them to continue to utilize the apps.

Wishful thinking I'm sure but I'll feel better knowing I didn't help them to fuck us over.

So here we sit with all the koolkids switching their pics to the Gumby mode, I've used since joining...I'm a fucking trend setter!

Maybe I should become an influencer, the next Kim Kardashian, famous for my sexual prowess and large ass.

One more off the bucketlist for bucketlist

Okay, now I'm beyond confused. I doubt the Supreme Court's guidelines of 'I'll know it when I sees it' would apply to headless torsos, back views, kissing, or my cleavage. No, let me be less wishy washy: I'm quite certain they don't.

The logical inference then is that these ridiculous restrictions and the even more ridiculous request that lifetime members help you enforce these ridiculous restrictions - on a swinger site - arise from the collective brain of SLS.

Is that correct?

@Tech Support

Sorry that my last lengthy post overlapped your last explanation. Now I'm completely confused.

You referenced general guidelines toward appropriateness and respect including the colloquial Supreme Court pornography "standard". How on earth does one get from this general statement to the puritanical and idiotic "child safe" guidelines that Wayne listed earlier which include prohibitions on "excessive cleavage" women in bikinis (if laying on a bed or in a suggestive pose as opposed to walking on a beach) and pictures basically without identifying features (of the sort that are generally NOT appropriate for a web site where discretion is more or less a fundamental necessity).

I guess I assumed that some idiot at Google or Apple had come up with these absurdly prudish and sanitary guidelines. No?

Current - yes, there actually is a check of what type of device/app is accessing the site to provide the right experience to the end user based on their device/app.

But it is all really just about how the site is formatted for that particular device or app. The back end data is still provided by the same database that feeds the website you use today.

And technically. that web browser you use to access the site from your cell phone is an app. And the site knows you're on a mobile browser and reformat itself accordingly. Which is why you need to turn your phone to landscape mode to see hot dates.

You can always tell your browser on your cell to display the full desktop version and you'll get the exact same experience you get on your laptop/desktop.

Wayne,

Along with Tramp I'm also confused. You say there is nothing to opt out of, and further that many people only have cell phones. On my cell phone I don't have an app loaded that I'm aware of. Back when I did try the app I found I preferred to log into the website instead. Is there now some invisible automatic re-direct when the site is accessed with a smart phone? I don't think so. Generally, with the exception that I need to turn my phone sideways to view hot dates it works fine. I personally don't need or want an app with IM, real time notifications (aka distractions) and all that other crap.

Google and Apple are presently in the midst of a shit storm created by their own voracious growth and greed which has outstripped their ability to police their content against racism, sexism, the promotion of violence and terrorism, child pornography, etc. etc. Your own site has lengthy and more or less cogent (in any case basically effective) guidelines to keep the site safe within the parameters appropriate for a website where adults come to seek legal, consensual sex and to chat about the same. You said earlier:

"A clothing app showing a headless man in a suit could be assumed to be promoting the suit. The same picture on a swinger app could be assumed to be promoting the person's body for sexual attraction."

"Promoting" my "body for sexual attraction." though not as effective as I might hope, is the only reason I came here and, I'm guessing, the same holds for the overwhelming majority of your members. Perhaps this just isn't the ideal time to launch a mobile app for a swinger site.

<p>LadyAndTramp_ATL,</p>

<p>My understanding of the issue is this: In the past we had a mobile app that was listed in the Apple App Store and on Amazon. The policies were the same. At that time, we tried to only filter the content served to the app. That is easier said than done and I think that caused it to get delisted (at least from the Apple store).</p>

<p>BTW, you can search for "App Store Review Guidelines" if you would like to see the direct source. Here is an excerpt:</p>

<p>"We strongly support all points of view being represented on the App Store, as long as the apps are respectful to users with differing opinions and the quality of the app experience is great. We will reject apps for any content or behavior that we believe is over the line. What line, you ask? Well, as a Supreme Court Justice once said, &ldquo;I&rsquo;ll know it when I see it&rdquo;. And we think that you will also know it when you cross it."</p>

<p>That is pretty much their description of the guidelines!</p>