"What are some ways that dating apps could be changed to make them more useful for both men and women?

I think one really obvious way to change dating apps that would make them at least fairer would be to require women to list their weight and height in the same way that men are now required to do that in order to post on the app, or at least on most of them. Women already have enough advantages on dating apps without that one not being adjusted a bit. Maybe it would encourage more men to be on the app. I'm not sure.

In what ways do you think apps should be changed to make them fairer to men?"

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I didn't know about the height/weight thing, but if that's true, then I agree, women should be have to list those things too. But I bet dating apps don't make them do it because men are desiring enough to pursue women even without knowing their dimensions, which increases activity on the site. And/or women would be put off by having to enter those details, and they don't have to because men will pursue them anyway, while men are desiring enough to go along with entering the details. And as long as there's a monetary incentive for a dating platform to do something that's not really beneficial to the whole, they'll do it, so probably any other solutions we can come up are only pipe dreams too.

That said, I've heard that dating sites have changed dating into like a checklist of objectified features that people either fill in or don't, making dating not only much harder but a lot less personal. And besides the features, you have to win them over in a little bit of conversation by being witty or whatever without anything else to go on. I'm not sure how you could solve that problem, though, except that one thing that I think might help and would be very beneficial in general would be to encourage uploading videos more. You can express so much more in a few seconds of your body language, voice, cadence, intonation, phraseology and unedited message than you could in years of pure text. That way, you could actually fall in love with the *person* or at least know whom you're getting into before meeting them or talking to them on the phone.

I've also heard horrible things about most dating sites being filled with bots posing as users, fake profiles, baiting messages being sent by website employees, etc., and I've personally noticed manipulative message notifications, manipulative service/pricing policies and checkout flows, and many many times more scammer profiles and messages than legitimate users. But again, all of those things sans the scammers are advantageous to the dating sites, so they're probably just not going to change any time soon. The scammers there may be ways to mitigate.