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The platform restricts you to profiles within a certain radius of your location. But users can opt out of it by visiting the website and toggling NSFW content back on. After seven years as a browser-only gay platform, Sniffies officially launched an iOS version March 3.

The Sniffies map updates in realtime, showing nearby Cruisers, active cruising groups, and. Present-day Sniffies is a jump from that original concept, but Martin believes the name still works. On the map, blue pins mark active users near you.

By continuing to use our site, you agree to our Privacy Policy and Terms of Use. With a new app, the platform Sniffies wants to bring queer cruising back offline. A statement from the Sniffies : "Due to ongoing content restrictions, the app has been temporarily removed from the App Store.

This default setting blurs explicit images and turns Sniffies into a toned-down messaging platform. We're committed to providing the best experience possible for our community and will share updates as we explore next steps.

Sniffies emphasizes cruising as an immersive, interactive experience, making it the hottest, fastest-growing cruising platform around. Enter Sniffies is a map-based hookup app that brings local cruisers to your cell phone, desktop, or Nintendo DS.

Anything with internet connection, really. Like the browser version, the app shows the approximate location of nearby users in real time. Sniffies is a map-based app designed for gay, bisexual, and bicurious men interested in finding casual hookups. How Sniffies is making cruising safer with new updates for The popular gay hookup app is cracking down and implementing enhanced features.

For users who already have the app installed, it will continue to function normally. The name has layers. As an app, it joins the ranks of competitors like Grindr and Scruff. Sniffies is a map-based cruising app for the curious. Our core web app remains fully operational and continues to offer the unfiltered Sniffies experience.

Hence the name. After I left Grindr and its ilk for good — detailed in a recent Last Call post in this magazine — this news made me conflicted. Sniffies debuted in as a web-based sniggle — part cruising map, part chat room — and developed an underground following.

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Editor's note: The Sniffies app, which launched in March when this interview occurred, is no longer available on Apple's App Store. The map shows you nearby cruisers, and popular meetup spots. There are of course still plenty of DL guys looking for quick head, but cruising is a fairly popular gay phenomenon.

Known as Sniffies for the curious, the app makes gay cruising accessible to anyone using any device and any browser. The interactive map contains various tools and features that allow you to find and connect with cruisers in your. Orange pins show known cruising spots — parks, bars, bathrooms, and more.

If you want to see more, you have to physically get up and move.

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Was Sniffies off-limits now too? Maybe it started as a joke, but it turned out to be the perfect name. Sniffies isn’t trying to be a gay social network — an accusation that Leo Herrera, author of Analog Cruising, levies against modern app culture, and Grindr in particular.

He shelved it for a while but kept the name. While apps like Grindr and Scruff were chasing venture capital and onboarding new users with photos of gay brunch, Sniffies offered what felt, in the now-crowded field of digitally mediated sex, a bit old-school: real-time, typically anonymous IRL sex.

Sniffies is the first of its kind -app, bringing the full cruising experience to any device and any browser.