someone had posted an article about this awhile back, but (let's just say it could be implemented easily, I know it's unrealistic), having an email protocol system with different levels of priority, so that emails that are time-sensitive have higher priorities than marketing emails? I'm not talking about filtering emails into labels like google does with it's inbox/social/promotions, but actual priority levels that you'd add similar to an email's subject line. And if filtering is a more realistic option, what about establishing some sort of standard for adding priority to the end of an email (ex. ::::Important:12hours::::) that a filter would then pick up. And abuse of the system would result in your future email's priority not being respected as seriously by whatever sorting algorithm.
thanks. those points are great, and I get how those can be factors in a major / delayed / completely new update for a company like dropbox ( because security holes cannot happen whatsoever (3), it already makes money off of its customers, so it should consider (1) and (7), and that it might have other features in the line (2) because they have several products / features already ).
But in tinder's case, the addition of age preferences in matches is similar to their already-existing gender & location search for a couple reasons... 1) they already check a potential match's gender (and location) against the gender preference you chose, so while they're there, how much harder is to check another attribute of that match? his/her age, 2) they already have the matching preferences / UI setup (yes, decisions still have to be made about where to put a slider, but it shouldn't look too different from the distance preference slider, and it's not such a new feature that it would be confusing to the user), and 3) since they don't currently make money off their user base, tinder's main value is derived from # users, # active users, etc. There could be an argument to be made about making it a possible premium feature, but bringing in more users / giving users what they want / making them happy should be the focus.
I guess when it comes down to it, I just don't understand how the development process of similar feature could take so long.