We/I've (Stag speaking) used Fab on and off for years, and many things about Fab can make the experience frustrating. Here's a few improvements it would be great to see.
1. Username searching having filters applied to it. We often search for certain buzzwords people will use in their usernames that fit what we look for, being able to apply other search filters to these would be great too, including distance, age, verification status etc. Even if there is just the ability to sort the results based on one of the aforementioned.
2. Search results sorting. Similarly to the above it would be great if there was other ways to sort search results, currently searches are automatically sorted in most recently online. Which while that can be handy if you're looking for something spontaneous, I think most people on Fab that do have successful meets and utilise Fab often like things set up with a bit of forward planning. We are a couple that often travels away, so might search for others at a location 100 miles away to engage in conversation about the possibility of something the following weekend, or month etc, so most recently online isn't always the greatest of indicators.
3. Age filters applying to both halves of a couple. Our age range as a couple (while we sometimes search out of it for the exceptional meet) applies to men, women and couples. When you search within a given age range that search only looks at that age range fitting for one of the two people in a couples profile. Meaning in our instance we search for 25-42, this will show us couples with a 29 year old female & 55 year old male or vice versa, which is not what we're looking for. Perhaps even an option to highlight that your age preferences need to apply to both parties of a couple, or even can set them gender specific. I know plenty of couples and women that prefer the men they meet to be older than the women they're comfortable with meeting.
4. The ability to view messages with another user. Women & couples get a lot of messages, everyone knows that, and I'm sure there are some men that get a lot too. Some very stereotypically attractive men here that possess a lot of things women or couples would want. It's great to view someone's profile and see you had a message interaction with them a few weeks ago, or even the day before, but you're unable to view and get back to that message because it's bogged down behind 250 other messages you've received since logging in 24 hours ago (record I've seen is 6,900 profile views and 537 messages unread after 24 hours). The only solution to this is to then message the person another message saying literally nothing, so the message shows up in your sent box in the most recent and then you can view that message to view the remainder of the conversation. The ability to revisit conversations you've had with people in the past somehow would be great. It seems very silly to be unable to revisit conversations and having to go to the extent of messaging a single character just to view the conversation history with someone.
5. Verifications. People can hide them, hide their summary, that's fine, however the ability to show verifications from a user that has left the site (even if the username shows as deleted user) would be great. Potential GDPR issues I guess based on the content in the verification left, so even just the ability to show on your profile specifically that there is a verification from a user that has left the site would be great. Fully respect peoples desire to hide their verifications and who they're verified by, however as people that have had verifications removed by someone that's left the website as well as been apprehensive about verified people that have verifications not shown that the person claims is because the users left the website it would be great to see even a detail on the bottom of the persons profile that says "Users has been verified by X users that have since left the website" or something. It just gives a bit more credibility to people looking for meets that are verified but can't show them as well as a bit of comfort to people speaking to users who's verification aren't there anymore due to the other parties having left the website.
6. Add direct image to message. This option isn't available on PC, and is only available on the mobile version of the website. Please can this be an option on the desktop version of the website? It's frustrating when someone asks to see a picture of something you don't have saved on the website which you're comfortable showing them but if you typically use desktop you then have to go on your mobile and direct add rather than do it via desktop.
7. Blocks removing images. Someone else has mentioned this, but when you're blocking someone or they have blocked you it would be great if the system automatically removed all messages between the parties, or at minimum all images exchanged. Yes site supporter can do this, however it's still a manual process to go through, having to go back to find the message you last sent to the user after finding out they've blocked you to then go and remove all the images is tedious and difficult often to navigate. At the same time non site supporters can't do this even (We site support, so we're not asking for a feature that other users pay for) and frankly I think that's concerning because it adds a layer of safety when sending pictures. All it takes is one person to be upset they're blocked or block the other party out of anger and wish to do malicious things with those images or even the information in those images. Yes, people should choose what they send to people, proceed with caution, absolutely, however absolutely no-one is infallible on Fab. We've arranged a meet with someone before to show up at 10pm a night, someone well verified, sane, normal in messages, well spoken, able to articulate, respectful, not pushy, for them to not show up. Only to then spam call at 4:30am that they're outside. That's scary. A block should result in an instant nuke/deletion of all previous message history with a person on both parties. Yes someone can just screenshot or save pictures, however unless they have malicious intentions from the outset screenshotting and saving other peoples pictures tends to be a reactionary based thing, than a proactive based action. Someone that is well spoken in messages over the course of 20 messages but then starts getting pushy and lashes out is unlikely to have originally saved the images or screenshot them, it's likely they've having a lash out irrationally. |
