Hi, I tried looking on the app where to reach someone about this and haven’t been able to. It’s been a long time since I posted and the free posts users get at the beginning of each month I’ve not been getting. Idk if it’s bc at one point I paid for the upgraded version but now I can’t post at all. Please fix this seems like a big. Please abide on what you do. Thank you

Used to be а personals app, they’ve since rebranded and the initial concept died. They even tried to make a reskin of the app without the queerness but this whole concept came from old school lesbian personals… which was how this app got its support. Now less active than it used to be and features are being added without fixing major issues of scammer profiles, huge unmoderated groups, or straight folks using the app to say vile stuff and prey on the queer community. There are individuals trying to preserve what lex used to be and there are some changes that seem to be being made to recover the app and make it better but it’s disappointing to see what happened overall

I really love the concept and community vibe of Lex, but I honestly think the app would benefit much more from being free or extremely low cost (even $1/month/week).Community-based apps only work when there’s enough active users and local engagement. For queer communities especially, user density and activity matter far more than monetization features. Once too many features are locked behind subscriptions, the app starts feeling quiet and inactive, which hurts the overall experience for everyone.Lex has something unique and special culturally. I’d rather see it grow into a larger, thriving queer community platform with more active users than become limited by paywalls too early.

Lex was the first queer meetup app I ever downloaded, and it’s been really special for me. 5 years ago, this app helped me meet queer people in my area. Some really cool events used to be planned on it! But then, capitalism does what capitalism does. Things on the app started to cost money. If you don’t pay to promote yourself, or pay to be a member, you hardly see any profiles and your boops disappear before you see them (they say it’s 24 hours but it’s definitely shorter). The app is now filled with chasers and bots, preying on queer people. Now when I open Lex, it feels gross. Nobody in my area uses it anymore or even knows what it is. I wish the story had turned out differently.

What I was looking for: a deeply intense friendship in which writers would get accused of queerbaiting if this were a TV show. In which we’d share a future, even if we never shared a bed. In which we’d write love letters like poets write about the moon, to admire, never to possess. What Lex has given me: a deeply intense romance in which writers would get accused of promoting the gay agenda and seducing children away from traditional family values if this were a TV show. In which we share a future that includes snow days, laundry days, grocery shopping, vacations, inside jokes, food adventures, book discussions, all the profundities and mundanities that comprise the rich and colorful tapestry of lives well-lived, and lots and lots and lots of sex, joyous sex, tender sex, violent sex, make-up sex, wake-up sex, just-met-at-the-airport-an-hour-ago sex, pours-into-your-orifices-like-liquid-gold-and-splatters-your-internal-organs-in-molten-star-stuff sex, leaves-you-bruised-and-trembling-and-sore-for-days sex, ruins-you-for-future-lovers sex. In which we exchange love letters and think pieces, philosophical musings and future plans, and whisper longingly across 3000 miles utterly filthy thoughts of the ways we’d like to lay claim to one other, until we can let our bodies do the talking. I asked for a chord, and received a symphony. Fair warning to all future users: be careful of what you don’t dare wish for. You might just get it.

I never leave reviews on apps. Mostly cause I don’t care enough to tell people what I think. But this app-wow. Just wow. I’m sure by the time you’ve found this app you’ve already tried Tindr, Grindr, Taimi, Bumble, Meetme, Badoo etc- this is the magnum opus, the creme de la creme, this app works because it gets rid of the picture. It gets rid of the ability to like or not like someone based on what they look like and who I interpret them as. It works because it just brings people together regardless of what u look like. I feel like I’m getting repetitive so let me get to my favorite thing. Never. Ever. In my 21 years of queer socializing have I met so many amazing people. Best part is they all live within 50 miles. With any other app it would give me people farther away just to get me to click more and use it more. This app has been nothing but wonders and I promise I’m not being paid to leave this review. Please. Keep this app a safe and wonderful place. Keep this a place that our community can use. Ik there isn’t really a way to keep bad people out or predatory straight cos people out but-as long as the team stays on top of getting rid of the bad apples that get reported- this app is the only social media app I need.

Great way to meet new people and find friends. Easy to choose your interests and find those with those same interests. Please always make the ability to choose age range, distance, and orientation(s) be free! If i couldn't do that without a paywell on Lex.. i would not feel safe. When Tinder made you have to pay (among other apps) to be able to choose the ages you saw, I stopped using the app. People who are young who want to make friends need to be safe from older people who they did not intend to have access to speak to them in the first place! Thank you, Lex and your team. I have no business talking to anyone 3 years older or younger or more unless it's for professional and mentor reasons... i had such predatory and abusive situations happen as a result of Tinder priorizing profit over safety. To this day Tinder still makes you pay, same with so many other apps, too. This set ya'll apart, but I'm sure that was purposeful. Please, please, please never change this.. neurodivergent people and vulnerable folx need extra protection like this because most of the time they do know their needs and boundaries and shouldn't have to pay, beg, or bleed before they are met!

As a UX researcher who has done a lot of research on user retention, I would be very surprised if Lex was successful with this. With what appears to be a low response rate between users (on posts, in private dms, and groupchats), it seems like a lot of users just don’t actively use the app. First of all, I would really appreciate a “last active” feature so it’s more clear who to not bother wasting my time with. I think they could also benefit from incentivizing more interaction (rather than having to pay for more posts). For example, I think reddit does this super well with karma/awards. This idea can be translated by unlocking things like a free variant of the colorful backgrounds if you reach 10+ posts or have a post that gets 50 likes. Maybe if you’re an active participant in groupchats or something that really helps define you as a contributor you get a bonus photo. As of right now, the natural incentivazation (which would be just genuine interaction between users) is low because people aren’t glued to the app enough, but there’s no point in engaging with the app if other people aren’t engaging either, therefore it would make sense to artificially incentivize engagement through those means.

I’ve been on Lex since it was very new and have been a huge advocate for it (getting friends to join, etc). I loved the original vintage personal ads model of the app that was understated and refreshing compared to other apps. I strongly disagreed with the visual rebrand last winter and the move to center advertiser-friendly “friendship” and decenter sexuality on the platform. They’ve been adding lots of new bells and whistles to the app, most recently the ability to comment on posts, and the new vibe is very far from 20th century queer underground personal ads, and similar to a hybrid of queer twitter and queer tinder, which I really don’t enjoy. Longtime bugs remain, which I used to happily tolerate from a scrappy app that I felt like had my back, but that feeling is eroding. I used to say I love Lex because it doesn’t feel like they’re trying to monetize our loneliness, unlike every other app—but on top of the new+more corporate features, Lex just got $5.6M in venture capital this fall (source: crunchbase), so I think that era is over. 😭

i used to really love lex, it was small but great for finding community, items, etc. the ciswhite lesbian execs got a multi million dollar investment and immediately began paywalling previously free features (like setting your location in other cities). they also make posting more than 6x a month cost money, frequently take down mutual aid calls by BIPOC users, and overall have a nasty vibe. their dev focus is clearly on whatever features will rake in more cash. i feel like they dont really consider user feedback at all. they don’t seem to care who uses the app anymore, and im frequently sent unwanted msgs from straight men and bots. i love inclusion AND i want to be able to have a platform intended for queer folx, actually be used by queer folx.honestly, i no longer recommend this app. start your own trading/community discords from here and leave. it is useful for keeping up w some folx, but i feel like the popular sentiments on lex are becoming more conservative and less friendly. it kind of stresses me out to open the app nowadays. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯