Except I don't buy that there's any shenanigans here at all on this point. Such is an entirely natural thing to do if this was built in a matter of hours. If you want to prove something works, leave the finer points for later. You make it sound like it was some sort of conspiracy to design the app that way. That theory goes to garbage once you consider the fact that they apparently don't have any opposition to same-sex pairings on their app: If this statement isn't directly implying that they intend to make BWF gay-friendly then consider me bamboozled. Any attempt to portray them as some tyrannical cis-hetero dudes falls apart there. So they made heterosexuality the default in v0.9. Big deal, it kinda is the default if we're being frank. Can you blame them for initially conceptualizing the app around their own demographic? And I want to reiterate, there's no reason to believe that these guys are against that despite what the editorializing in the article suggests.It could be a toggle, but instead it was a wall put into the code.
We built the most basic version we could to keep it simple and get to the result of getting people bangin buddies! We are working on expanding it to help everyone.
The program filters for gender if it only shows a user of one gender the friends with the opposite gender. To filter for any gender at all, they have to ask Facebook's API for gender data about users. It's easier not to ask at all and just offer all users. Instead it checks that gender of user does not equal gender of list presented. The computer doesn't maaaaaagically know "boys should want to see girls or it's icky": that's in the app's code. If they plan to add it later, that's only because non-bros made a stink. It doesn't matter if you don't want to see the evidence of breeder privilege. It's there. I spend enough of my life dealing with code to know it took them effort to get this non-toggle option.
More like the app would be a lot shittier if i had to scroll through most of the dudes on my friends list just to protect the sensibilities of a few. It kind of defeats the whole purpose of the app if i'm not even getting to see anyone I would bother rating on sexual attraction.